---
title: "Turn product photos into a viral product hook — AI video generator workflow for ads & UGC"
description: "Find a hook that already sells, then remake it with your product as phone or security-cam footage on Seedance 2.5. Install in Claude Code, Codex and Grok with one command."
url: https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/varg-product-hook
updated: 2026-10-28
---

# Turn product photos into a viral product hook — workflow skill for ads & UGC

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Find a hook that already sells, then remake it with your product as phone or security-cam footage on Seedance 2.5.

- **Type:** [Workflow](https://varg.ai/how-to/workflows.md) · [Ads & UGC](https://varg.ai/how-to/browse/skills/ads.md)
- **Slug:** `varg-product-hook`
- **Status:** live
- **Publisher:** varg (varg, verified)
- **License:** MIT
- **Source:** https://github.com/vargHQ/skills/tree/main/varg-product-hook
- **Works in:** Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw
- **Requires:** varg API key or the varg MCP, 1-3 product photos
- **Cost:** ~231 credits / 6 s clip — Measured Oct 2026 on seedance_2_5 at 720p; wan_3 drafts cost about a quarter of that. A hook is 2-3 clips.

## What it does

The first 5-15 s of a product video, or the whole 15-22 s "The problem → Vs → The solution" music ad. Where to find proven hooks (TikTok Creative Center, Kalodata, FastMoss, Minea, PiPiADS, Reels search) and remake the idea, not the clip, from 1-3 product photos on seedance_2_5: six archetypes with prompt cores (backyard camera, torture test, problem → solution, satisfying close-up, gift reaction, before/after), a five-block prompt, and checks for product drift, hands and scale. Built from five studied reels (Tradelle, RollyMew, NailSense) and tested on varg.

## Use when

- A scroll-stopping hook for a dropshipping, Shopify, TikTok Shop or Amazon product
- A "TikTok made me buy it" clip of the product in use, made from product photos
- A problem-vs-solution ad set to music with security-cam footage
- Remaking a competitor's winning hook with your own product

## Not for

- The full laptop-and-pen guide reel (use varg-dropship-reel)
- Talking-head UGC ads with an actor reading a script
- Studio packshot spins (use varg-ai)

## Install

- Claude Code: `claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg`
- Codex: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-product-hook -a codex -y`
- Cursor: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-product-hook -a cursor -y`
- Gemini CLI: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-product-hook -a gemini-cli -y`
- OpenClaw: `npx clawhub@latest install varg-product-hook`

**Models it drives:** seedance_2_5, wan_3, gpt_image_2_5

## Example output

https://s3.varg.ai/how-to/previews/e3b1590f42f1/varg-product-hook.mp4 — Made with the skill: one gpt_image_2_5 packshot of an LED pet nail clipper as @image1, seedance_2_5 6 s 720p, first take — the satisfying close-up archetype. (credit: varg)

## 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.
- [fal Marketing](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/fal-marketing.md): Produce campaign asset matrices: launch kits, paid-social variants, banners and channel deliverables.