same-outlet-ranker

same-outlet-ranker is a skill for Claude Code from elvisun/newsjack. It costs 84 tokens per session (5,402 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A decision aid for choosing one journalist at a publication to contact first about a story pitch. It checks each journalist’s fit and ranks suitable candidates using factors such as subject ownership, format, employment status, and publishing activity.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to select a first journalist for a pitch, prepare a more suitable version of the pitch, rank backup contacts, or decide not to pitch that publication.
Why use it?
It prevents you from sending the same pitch to several colleagues at one publication, which can make the outreach look careless. It also explains when no candidate is a good enough match.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Good fit Use it to select a first journalist for a pitch, prepare a more suitable version of the pitch, rank backup contacts, or decide not to pitch that publication.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/elvisun/newsjack/same-outlet-ranker
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 84 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,402 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
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

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 →

  • high Anti-Refusal · line 25
    Skill instructs the agent to omit warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Stripping safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.
    Fix: Remove instructions that suppress warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Let the agent surface safety-relevant caveats to the user.
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 $0.00084 $0.05402
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.02701
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.01080
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00540

Measured 10d ago against content hash 4c87f31a19ac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

same-outlet-ranker 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 10d 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/same-outlet-ranker/SKILL.md · 302 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 302 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Same-Outlet Ranker

This is the Same-Outlet Ranker skill inside newsjack.sh. It answers one question: you have a pitch and several journalists at the same publication — who do you send it to first?

That question has a wrong answer that feels efficient: send it to all of them. Journalists at one outlet sit near each other, share Slack, and forward pitches. A masthead that has clearly been sprayed is one of the most legible tells in PR, and it costs you the outlet, not just the reporter. This skill exists to make you pick one.

It returns:

  • Pitch first — exactly one journalist, with the specific edits that make the pitch land for that person.
  • Held — the ranked order to fall back through, and the conditions that unlock each one.
  • Do not pitch — candidates who are wrong for this story, with the reason.
  • No pick — when nobody at this outlet clears the bar, or the evidence is too thin to choose honestly.

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.

Boundaries

  • Rank candidates at one publication at a time. Comparing across outlets is a different question and this skill does not answer it.
  • Do not judge fit yourself. Per-journalist fit is journalist-fit-check's job. Call it, then rank what survives.
  • Do not find journalists. That is find-journalists. This skill ranks names you already have.
  • Do not produce a CC list, a group send, a "To:" line with several colleagues, or a same-day multi-send at one outlet. There is no version of the output that is a batch.
  • Do not draft or send the pitch.
  • Do not rank on prominence, follower count, or how senior a byline sounds. Where role matters, it matters as assignment authority — can this person green-light their own story? — not as prestige.
  • Do not rank someone up because the user knows them.
  • Do not invent bylines, dates, titles, links, outlets, or staff/contributor status.

Read the full file on GitHub · 302 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. 10d ago First seen · 302 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A 4c87f31a19ac

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same-outlet-ranker is a skill published in the GitHub repository elvisun/newsjack (666 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 5,402 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.

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