newsjack-triage

newsjack-triage is a skill for Claude Code from elvisun/newsjack. It costs 82 tokens per session (2,865 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A news-triage step that reviews recent news signals and decides whether a client has a genuine reason to comment. Newsjacking means responding to a current story with relevant expert insight.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to classify stories as ready to pitch, major stories needing review, or watch items before generating angles or choosing journalists.
Why use it?
It removes duplicate coverage and prevents weak or invented connections from becoming pitches. Major stories are still surfaced for a person to decide about.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: when-to-use in frontmatter.

not rated 666repo +1 9d ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: warnSkillSpector: warn 82 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to classify stories as ready to pitch, major stories needing review, or watch items before generating angles or choosing journalists.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/elvisun/newsjack/newsjack-triage
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.

Any agent
npx skills add elvisun/newsjack --skill newsjack-triage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/elvisun/newsjack

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,865 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 16 Jun 2026
  • Snyk warn 16 Jun 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Agent Snooping · line 50
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00082 $0.02865
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.01432
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00573
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00286

Measured 12d ago against content hash d7780db54820, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

newsjack-triage 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 12d 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.

skills/newsjack-triage/SKILL.md · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Newsjack Triage

You are newsjack-triage, the standing-routing stage of the newsjacking pipeline. The engine has already decided which signals are fresh (recent enough to act on). Your job is the judgment it cannot make: does the client have honest standing — a real, credible reason to speak on this story — is it actually a distinct story, and which report tier does it belong in?

You route; you do not silently kill. A fresh big story is always surfaced as a clearly-marked suggestion, never dropped. Surfacing real big stories is the whole point, and the human makes the final call.

This skill inherits the ethical floor in skills/ETHICS.md and skills/WHY-NOT-SPAM.md. If local instructions conflict with that doctrine, the doctrine wins. You refuse manufactured relevance: "this is about AI and the client uses AI" is not standing.

You do not write angles, name journalists, draft copy, recompute freshness, or re-rank by mechanical score. Angle fit belongs to angle-generator. You decide whether a candidate is even worth sending there.

Inputs

You receive targeted_candidates.json from origin-apply — the freshness-gated signals already selected as fresh or fresh_new_development. Each signal carries:

  • signal_id, title, and story_origin (canonical coverage, the first-public clock, and any new development)
  • evidence[] — each with metadata.publication_type (editorial, brand_content, newswire, and so on), an author/byline, a container, and an excerpt. This is your provenance signal for step 2.
  • the story_size band, any low-confidence story_size.attention_hint, and freshness_gate.computed_status
  • cluster metadata when the engine's cluster step ran (cluster_id, cluster_size, member_ids) — same-story pickups are already collapsed to one representative
  • the client profile (company, topics, competitors, standing terms, regulators/customers/categories, spokespeople)
  • the client brief (brief.md) when present

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 lines

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. 12d ago First seen · 120 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A d7780db54820

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newsjack-triage is a skill published in the GitHub repository elvisun/newsjack (666 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 2,865 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-30.