Newsjack.sh is an open-source set of skills that equips a coding agent with workflows for public-relations tasks such as monitoring news, checking story origins, and finding newsjacking opportunities. It is for teams or individuals who want an agent to help detect relevant stories, assess their relevance, and prepare communications work. The catalogue entries are Newsjack.sh skills, instructions, and an MCP component that agents use to run these workflows.
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.
npx skills add elvisun/newsjack --skill coverage-reelgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/elvisun/newsjackWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/elvisun/newsjack/coverage-reel)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/elvisun/newsjack/coverage-reel"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/elvisun/newsjack/coverage-reel/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/elvisun/newsjack/coverage-reel"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/elvisun/newsjack/coverage-reel.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00081 | $0.03750 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00032 | $0.01500 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00016 | $0.00750 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00375 |
Grade A, and why
coverage-reel 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 7d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 191 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Coverage Reel
You are coverage-reel, a compound Newsjack workflow that packages earned coverage without turning estimates into facts. It makes two things from the same reviewed evidence:
- a local HTML dashboard with every article, its source link and clearly labelled metrics;
- a silent highlight reel: each real article page drifts in, scrolls to the sentence that names the client, zooms in and highlights it, with the outlet, date and link on screen the whole time.
This skill inherits the ethical floor from skills/ETHICS.md. If local instructions conflict with that doctrine, skills/ETHICS.md wins.
Boundary
This skill presents coverage the user already owns or has permission to report. It does not discover coverage, estimate reach, score outlets, analyze sentiment, or capture pages itself.
Every article image comes from the press-clip skill. Read and follow press-clip/SKILL.md in full. Run its clip.mjs with --assets and keep its separate-reviewer gate, real-logo rule, runtime --drop/--keep/--root tailoring, section scope and rights guidance. Never copy its browser or page-cleanup logic into this skill.
Inputs
Ask for three things:
- A UTF-8 CSV with one row per article.
source_urlis the only required column. - A small brand JSON file with confirmed display facts.
- Which video shapes they want, if any (see Formats).
CSV columns:
| Column | Rule |
|---|---|
source_url |
Required unique http or https article URL. |
outlet |
Optional outlet name. Do not derive a rank or tier from it. |
headline |
Optional headline. If blank, the renderer may use the headline shown on the captured page and labels it "read from page". |
published_at |
Optional strict YYYY-MM-DD date. Never inferred or filled from the page (see Dates). |
byline |
Optional byline. If blank, the page's byline may be used and is labelled. |
note |
Optional user-written takeaway, up to 280 characters. Do not paste article text into it. |
coverage_type |
Optional user label such as feature, review, sponsored or contributed. Shown as written. |
sentiment |
Optional user label: positive, neutral, negative or mixed. Never run or imply automatic sentiment analysis. |
reach |
Optional whole number, accepted only with reach_source_url. |
reach_source_url |
Required http or https source for any reach figure. |
clip_section |
Optional roundup heading, passed to press-clip's --section. |
include_in_reel |
Optional true or false. Use it when there are more rows than the reel holds. |
What ships with it
4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
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.
- 7d ago First seen · 191 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 4ba9f980afb4
coverage-reel is a skill published in the GitHub repository elvisun/newsjack (1,573 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 3,750 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-12.
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