---
title: "Motion Creative Strategy Skills — ads & UGC tutorial and best practices for AI video"
description: "Motion's creative-strategy skills: brand intake, review mining, angles, hooks, 45+ visual formats, ad mechanics. Install in Claude Code, Codex and Grok with one command."
url: https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/motion-creative-strategy-skills
updated: 2026-10-29
---

# Motion Creative Strategy Skills — guide skill for ads & UGC

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Motion's creative-strategy skills: brand intake, review mining, angles, hooks, 45+ visual formats, ad mechanics.

- **Type:** [Guide](https://varg.ai/how-to/guides.md) · [Ads & UGC](https://varg.ai/how-to/browse/skills/ads.md)
- **Slug:** `motion-creative-strategy-skills`
- **Status:** live
- **Publisher:** Motion (Alysha) (vendor)
- **License:** MIT
- **Source:** https://github.com/motion-team/creative-strategy-skills
- **Works in:** Claude Code, Codex, Cursor
- **Adoption:** 185 GitHub stars (GitHub, 2026-10-29)

## What it does

Eight skills by Alysha, Creative Strategy Lead at Motion (the creative-analytics platform). brand-intake and review-audit build a brand context and customer language bank; creative-strategy-engine maps pain x persona x awareness angles; hook-writing, hook-tactics (35+ tactics) and hook-voice-patterns write feed-native hooks; creative-mechanics and visual-formats (45+ Meta formats) turn a hook into a full concept with a visual structure.

## Use when

- write hooks for an ad
- find new messaging angles
- choose a visual ad format

## Not for

- generating the media
- account analytics

## Install

- Claude Code: `npx skills add motion-team/creative-strategy-skills -a claude-code`
- Codex: `npx skills add motion-team/creative-strategy-skills -a codex`
- Cursor: `npx skills add motion-team/creative-strategy-skills -a cursor`
- Any agent, with the vargai CLI: `vargai install motion-creative-strategy-skills`

## More ads & UGC skills

- [Ecommerce video ad skills for Claude Code and AI agents](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/ecommerce-video-ads.md): Product videos that sell on TikTok, TikTok Shop, Reels and Meta: angle, hook, format, script, rules, variants.
- [Turn a product into scroll-stopping video hooks](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/product-video-hooks.md): The first 3 seconds of a product video: frame, line and text that agree, from a 70-line hook bank.
- [Open-source alternative to Arcads: AI UGC ads](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/ai-ugc-ad-video.md): AI UGC ads with an AI actor holding your real product: face, voice and label locked, labelled.
- [Turn one winning ad into a creative testing plan](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/ad-creative-testing.md): How many ads to test, what to change, when to judge, kill or scale — concepts Meta sees as different.
- [Turn a product into a dropshipping guide reel](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/varg-dropship-reel.md): The faceless "comment GUIDE" reel: product hook, a marker pointing at cost and price on a laptop, a skyline ending.
- [Turn product photos into a viral product hook](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/varg-product-hook.md): Find a hook that already sells, then remake it with your product as phone or security-cam footage on Seedance 2.5.