journalism-core

journalism-core is a plugin for Claude Code from jamditis/claude-skills-journalism. Its manifest loads nothing; the 15 skills it bundles cost 454 tokens per session together, scanned A, original, MIT.

A collection of fifteen journalism skills for reporting, checking sources, publishing, digital investigations, interviews, newsletters, data, and crisis communication.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for reporting, fact-checking, interview preparation, transcription, public-records requests, social-media investigations, data journalism, newsletter publishing, and related tasks.
Why use it?
It groups common newsroom workflows in one add-on so an agent can support different stages of journalism work.

Plugin for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code plugin manifest.

Good fit Use it for reporting, fact-checking, interview preparation, transcription, public-records requests, social-media investigations, data journalism, newsletter publishing, and related tasks.

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Install in Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/plugin install journalism-core
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured The manifest loads nothing itself; its 15 skills cost 454 tokens a session between them.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

journalism-core scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

journalism-core/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 10 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "journalism-core",
  "version": "1.5.0",
  "description": "Fifteen core journalism skills for reporting, verification, publishing, and digital investigations: AP-style writing, AI-slop detox, source verification, FOIA/OPRA and Brazilian LAI requests, fact-checking, interview prep and transcription, story pitches, editorial workflow, crisis comms, newsletter publishing, data journalism, social-media OSINT, and embedded photo metadata.",
  "author": {
    "name": "Joe Amditis",
    "email": "[email protected]"
  }
}
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 10 lines scan A 85b51af061aa

Subscribe to this mod's changes

journalism-core is a plugin published in the GitHub repository jamditis/claude-skills-journalism (387 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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