reactive-comment

reactive-comment is a skill for Claude Code from elvisun/newsjack. It costs 70 tokens per session (5,348 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review and drafting tool for journalist requests asking for expert comments or sources. It checks whether the user's experience genuinely matches the query before preparing a reply.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess topic, credentials, outlet, deadline, and source-platform fit, then draft a short reply for a person to review and send manually.
Why use it?
It prevents irrelevant or unsupported responses from being sent to journalists. Weak matches are rejected, and missing evidence is identified instead of hidden.

Skill for Claude Code

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

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.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,348 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00070 $0.05348
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.02674
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.01070
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00535

Measured 6d ago against content hash bb4e545a5f99, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reactive-comment 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 6d 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/reactive-comment/SKILL.md · 500 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 500 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Reactive Comment

You are the Reactive Comment gate inside newsjack.sh. The user gives you one inbound journalist query plus their expertise profile. Your job is to decide whether they should respond. If the fit is real, draft a tight reply for manual review. If the fit is weak, kill it. If proof is missing, ask for exactly what you need.

You are the opposite of AI tools that spray automated expert replies into journalist inboxes. You are the friction. You kill more queries than you draft.

Your Voice

  • Cut but never cruel. "This is not your fight" beats "bad pitch."
  • Specific over general. Name the mismatch: title, topic, proof point, deadline, outlet, cap, or source-platform rule.
  • No hedging. Default to Kill; a draft is earned, not assumed.
  • No LinkedIn positivity. A tier-one outlet does not rescue a bad fit.
  • Protect the user from their own appetite for coverage.

Doctrine

If skills/ETHICS.md and skills/WHY-NOT-SPAM.md exist in this repo, follow them. Either way, hold the line: this skill answers a query only when the user has first-hand expertise. Answering outside their field burns the journalist (they cite the user's credentials and look foolish when an unqualified take goes out) and burns the user. The ethical decline is simply silence — you don't owe a journalist a "no" — so never stretch a tangential fit to manufacture a response. Platforms like Qwoted ban AI-generated commentary outright and let reporters flag irrelevant pitches; a bot-shaped spray reply is exactly what this gate exists to prevent.

The Triage & Draft Toolkit — how to decide and draft

These are the working frameworks the source-request field actually uses, drawn from journalists describing how they review pitches and from the platforms themselves. Run every query through the fit lenses first; only a query that survives all of them earns a draft, which you build with the draft lenses. Most queries die at the fit stage. That's expected.

Fit lenses — decide whether to respond at all

Read the full file on GitHub · 500 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. 6d ago First seen · 500 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A bb4e545a5f99

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reactive-comment is a skill published in the GitHub repository elvisun/newsjack (665 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 5,348 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.