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Reverse-Engineer a Viral Format

Break down a viral video into its structural components — hook, tension, reveal, call to action — so you can replicate what actually made it work.

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Viral Video Clone

Most creators watch viral videos and react to what they see on the surface. The result is a superficial copy that misses the underlying structure — the specific hook timing, tension arc, and revelation moment that made the original spread. Copying the aesthetic without understanding the mechanics rarely produces the same outcome.

Viral Video Clone analyzes a video at a structural level: it identifies the exact moment the hook fires, how long it holds before the first tension point, when the reveal or payoff lands, and what the CTA asks for. The result is a breakdown that tells you why a specific video works at a format level, not just what it looks like.

Content strategists, social media managers, and creators use this to build a repeatable format library from proven viral structures rather than guessing at what might work.

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Claude

  1. Connect ToolRouter in Claude: claude mcp add toolrouter -- npx -y toolrouter-mcp
  2. Share the URL of the viral video you want to analyze.
  3. Ask Claude to use `viral-video-clone` with `analyze_video` to produce a structural breakdown.
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ChatGPT

  1. Connect ToolRouter in ChatGPT: {"mcpServers":{"toolrouter":{"command":"npx","args":["-y","toolrouter-mcp"]}}}
  2. Share the viral video URL and specify the content category and your target platform.
  3. Ask ChatGPT to run `viral-video-clone` with `analyze_video` to produce the structural breakdown.
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Copilot

  1. Connect ToolRouter in Copilot: {"mcpServers":{"toolrouter":{"command":"npx","args":["-y","toolrouter-mcp"]}}}
  2. Share the viral video URL and your workspace format for content strategy documentation.
  3. Run `viral-video-clone` with `analyze_video` to produce the structural breakdown.
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OpenClaw

  1. Connect ToolRouter in OpenClaw: openclaw mcp add toolrouter -- npx -y toolrouter-mcp
  2. Define the full list of video URLs, the content category, and the output schema before batching.
  3. Run `viral-video-clone` with `analyze_video` across the full batch.
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