Xiaohongshu Skills - Setup Guide¶

Source: vivy-yi/xiaohongshu-skills via skills.sh - 28.1K combined installs across 137 indexed listings; first seen 2026-10-31 (morning sweep)

GitHub: vivy-yi/xiaohongshu-skills - 515 stars, no license file, branch main, last pushed 2026-01-23; 139 SKILL.md directories, one per skill, grouped into nine Chinese-named category folders under skills/, with docs and a Claude Code plugin manifest beside them

Category: Xiaohongshu (RED) content operations: short-video production, note writing and account workflows

Quality Tier: 🟡 Yellow - every sampled skill Passes all three auditors, but the repository ships no LICENSE file at all

This is a knowledge base rather than a toolkit. 139 SKILL.md files cover the operating manual of Xiaohongshu, the platform also called RED or Little Red Book: how to write a note that gets saved, how to shoot and cut a vertical video, how to pick products for live commerce, which metrics to read in which analytics tool, and what the platform's rules will penalise. Every file is prose. The clone holds markdown, one plugin manifest, a gitignore and nothing else, so nothing here executes and nothing here calls an API: the agent reads the skill and applies the method itself.

Read the language situation before deciding. The descriptions on skills.sh are English, which is how a query in English can route to the right file, but the bodies and most file names are Chinese, the README is Chinese, and the nine category folders are Chinese. An agent reading these files gets guidance written for a Chinese-market operator, with platform vocabulary that has no clean English equivalent. That is the point of the repository, and it is also why it does not overlap with an English social-media skill set.

Installation¶

The README gives two routes, both starting from a clone. The first registers the repository as a Claude Code plugin marketplace and installs the single bundled plugin:

git clone https://github.com/vivy-yi/xiaohongshu-skills.git
cd xiaohongshu-skills
/plugin marketplace add vivy-yi/xiaohongshu-skills
/plugin install xiaohongshu-complete-skills@xiaohongshu-skills

The second is the development route: clone, and let Claude Code pick up .claude-plugin/marketplace.json from the checkout without registering it as a marketplace.

git clone https://github.com/vivy-yi/xiaohongshu-skills.git
cd xiaohongshu-skills

Neither route knows about Hermes. The complication for a profile install is depth: the skills sit two levels below skills/, one directory per skill inside a category directory, so a single recursive copy lands nine category folders rather than 139 skills. Copy the categories as they are, or pull named skills out flat:

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vivy-yi/xiaohongshu-skills.git /tmp/xiaohongshu-skills
mkdir -p ~/.hermes/profiles/corpusiq/skills
find /tmp/xiaohongshu-skills/skills -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 -type d \
  \( -name "short-video-production" -o -name "copywriting-skills" -o -name "cover-design" \
     -o -name "title-writing" -o -name "compliance" \) \
  -exec cp -r {} ~/.hermes/profiles/corpusiq/skills/ \;

That installs five skills flat, each with its own SKILL.md, which is what a Hermes router needs. Widen the -name list to take more, and keep the names in mind rather than the paths: the category folders are Chinese, so tab completion in a terminal is the only realistic way to browse them.

What It Provides¶

Skill	Installs	Use For
short-video-production	777	Shooting and cutting vertical video for RED: filming vlogs and tutorials, editing short-form clips and optimising for phone viewing.
copywriting-skills	571	The note body: captions that hold attention, brand voice for posts, product descriptions and recommendation copy.
image-editing	436	Preparing stills: filters and adjustments, image quality, carousel-ready frames and the visual consistency a photo post needs.
viral-creation	349	Building a post meant to break out of the existing follower base, and reverse-engineering the patterns behind posts that did.
jiaying-tool	344	Editing video in Jiaying: effects, transitions, subtitles and music, and the export settings for a RED upload.
traffic-acquisition	342	Pulling traffic in from outside the platform, recruiting followers beyond organic discovery and breaking a growth plateau.
content-performance-analysis	336	Reading one post's numbers to decide why it worked or failed, spotting underperformers and comparing formats against each other.
brand-operation	334	Running a brand account: official presence, brand community, and scaling engagement rather than just follower count.
product-selection	324	Choosing what to sell: items worth featuring in content, what to put in a live room, profitability and trending product research.
livestream-sales	324	Hosting a sales live stream: planning the session, product presentations for a live audience, viewer interaction and conversion rate.
graphic-content-creation	318	Image posts: carousel structure, visual tutorials and step guides, photos with text overlays and the storytelling order between frames.
meitu-xiuxiu	301	Photo retouching on mobile: enhancing visual quality, making product shots presentable and lifting image aesthetics with a phone editor.
compliance	285	Staying inside the platform rules: what counts as a violation and how to keep an account healthy while pushing reach.
photo-editing-tools	284	Comparing editing apps and choosing one for a given job, then improving the visual quality of the output.
cover-design	281	The thumbnail and first image: click-through rate, cover variants and A/B testing which one wins.
stable-design	280	Graphics from Chinese design templates: posters, banners, promotional material and business-oriented visuals.
excel-analytics	276	Manual analysis in a spreadsheet: tracking sheets, dashboards built by hand, and the spreadsheet skills a small operator needs.
private-domain	274	Moving followers off-platform to WeChat, building an offline community and keeping audience ownership when the algorithm changes.
topic-participation	273	Trending topics and hashtag challenges: joining conversations while they are live instead of after they cool.
xinhong-data	272	Deep account analytics: performance trends over time, influencer research, category growth and the strategic read on all three.
store-operations	272	Daily shop work: inventory, orders, fulfilment, shipping coordination and planning shop promotions.

The remaining 116 indexed listings range from 153 to 269 installs.

Why This Matters for Hermes Agents¶

General-purpose marketing advice fails on RED for a structural reason: the platform is a search and discovery engine where the cover image and the first line decide distribution, the note body carries the saved value, and the comment section is where reach compounds. A generic "post consistently and use hashtags" skill teaches none of that. These skills are written at the level of the actual mechanic, cover design and title writing and topic timing as separate files, each with the failure modes an operator hits.

The tool skills are the second useful layer. jiaying-tool, meitu-xiuxiu, stable-design, xinhong-data, excel-analytics and photo-editing-tools document specific Chinese-market tools rather than generic ones, which means an agent asked to plan a RED workflow can name the tool a Chinese operator would actually open instead of substituting whatever it knows from an English stack.

The commercial chain is covered end to end, and each link is its own skill: product-selection picks, seeding-copywriting seeds, livestream-sales sells live, sales-funnel maps the path, store-operations fulfils, roi-analysis checks whether it paid. That decomposition is why the suite is large; it is also why an agent can be pointed at one stage without loading a treatise on the whole business.

The caveat is freshness. This is a snapshot of platform practice frozen in January 2026, and RED's algorithm and rules move. Treat the skills as a structured method with a date on it, not as current policy.

Usage¶

You say	What happens
"Write me a RED note about a ceramic mug"	`copywriting-skills` drafts the body in note register, `title-writing` writes the opening line and `hashtag-optimization` picks the tags, in that order rather than as one blob.
"Why did this post get 200 views and that one 20,000"	`content-performance-analysis` compares the two against format, cover and timing, and `cover-design` checks whether the thumbnail is the variable.
"Plan a week of content for a skincare account"	`content-planning` and `content-calendar` lay out the week, `topic-participation` slots in anything trending, and `account-positioning` is checked first if the account has no clear lane.
"Is this product worth featuring in a live stream"	`product-selection` evaluates margin and demand, then `livestream-sales` structures the segment and the presentation order.
"How do I edit this clip for RED"	`short-video-production` sets the format and pacing and hands the edit to `jiaying-tool` for effects, subtitles and music.
"Can I say this in a note without getting flagged"	`compliance` checks the claim against the platform rules and `penalty-avoidance` covers the softer cases where wording, not the product, is the problem.
"Move my followers somewhere I control"	`private-domain` covers the WeChat handoff and the retention design that keeps the relationship after the follower leaves the app.

Verification¶

The raw path for the top skill returned HTTP 200 on branch main when this guide was written on 2026-10-31. The category directory is Chinese, so the path is percent-encoded:

curl -sL -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code} short-video-production\n" \
  "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vivy-yi/xiaohongshu-skills/main/skills/01-%E5%86%85%E5%AE%B9%E5%88%9B%E4%BD%9C/short-video-production/SKILL.md"

Expect 200. After the copy lands, confirm the five named skills arrived flat and readable:

ls -d ~/.hermes/profiles/corpusiq/skills/short-video-production \
      ~/.hermes/profiles/corpusiq/skills/copywriting-skills \
      ~/.hermes/profiles/corpusiq/skills/cover-design | wc -l
head -6 ~/.hermes/profiles/corpusiq/skills/short-video-production/SKILL.md

The count should print 3, and the header should show name: short-video-production with an English description: that begins "Use when creating video content for Xiaohongshu". If the copy instead created nine Chinese-named category folders, the find above matched at the wrong depth and the router will not see the skills.

Security¶

skills.sh verdicts for sampled skills (verified 2026-10-31) - all five Pass all three auditors, and the reason this guide is Yellow rather than Green is that the repository has no LICENSE file, so there is no stated grant to redistribute or embed the content - re-check the security pages on skills.sh before production use:

Skill	Gen Agent Trust Hub	Socket	Snyk
short-video-production	Pass	Pass	Pass
growth-hacking	Pass	Pass	Pass
content-matrix	Pass	Pass	Pass
crisis-management	Pass	Pass	Pass
account-weight	Pass	Pass	Pass

The audit surface is as small as it gets. The tree holds 139 markdown files, one JSON plugin manifest and a gitignore; there is no script, no package manifest, no postinstall step and no network call anywhere in the checkout, so an install cannot execute anything. The manifest is worth one look because it is the only executable-looking file: it lists skill paths under skills/ for the plugin loader and points at the repository root as its source, which is what makes the one-line plugin install work.

The real risk is not code, it is advice. Several skills describe platform-rule edges, penalty avoidance and traffic acquisition, and an agent following them will be optimising against a rule set it cannot verify. Keep a human on anything that touches account safety, and treat compliance as guidance that is nine months old rather than a current reading of platform policy.

Integration with CorpusIQ¶

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This page is part of the CorpusIQ directory, the reference we maintain for the MCP server and agent-skill ecosystem. Run alongside CorpusIQ, a third-party server like this one can be combined with a company's own business data in a single answer.

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Limitations¶

Snapshot data, verified 2026-10-31: 28,082 combined installs across 137 indexed listings; 515 GitHub stars; no license file; last pushed 2026-01-23. Counts drift over time.
No LICENSE file, which is the one fact that should stop a commercial deployment. The repository is public and permissively indexed, but public is not licensed; embedding these skills in a product or redistributing the text has no stated grant.
The index, the tree and the manifest disagree on size. 137 indexed listings, 139 directories in the clone, 139 stated in the README and 144 declared in .claude-plugin/marketplace.json. Nothing reconciles them, and the manifest number is the largest.
The content is stale by design. Last pushed 2026-01-23, nine months before this snapshot, on a platform whose algorithm, rules and commerce features change faster than that. The method survives; specific thresholds and policy claims may not.
The README's beginner path names skills that are not in the tree. content-niche-selection, visual-storytelling, copywriting, basic-data-analysis and account-setup all appear in the learning-path sections and none has a directory, so follow the file names, not the tutorial.
The category folders are inconsistent. Two of the nine are both numbered 03, one for engagement and one for analytics, and the folder names are Chinese, which breaks sorting, tab completion and any script that assumes ASCII paths.
Install counts are not a ranking. The whole visible band runs from 777 down to 272, a factor of under three across 21 skills, which says more about how skills.sh aggregates a plugin install than about which skill is best.

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Pro Tips¶

Install flat, not nested. Hermes routes on SKILL.md one level under the skills directory, so copy named skill folders up rather than the nine Chinese category folders down.
Start with three files, not the catalog. account-positioning for the lane, copywriting-skills for the note, cover-design for the thumbnail; those three cover the loop a new account runs daily.
Pair the content skills with the analytics ones. content-performance-analysis without xinhong-data is a post-mortem with no denominator, and xinhong-data without the analysis skill is a dashboard nobody reads.
Read compliance before any monetisation work, not after. The commercial skills assume claims and formats that the platform rules constrain, and the ordering matters more than the depth.
Keep your own copy provisioned through a normal distribution path. Since no license is declared, anything beyond internal use of these files needs a conversation with the maintainer first.

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