newsroom-style

newsroom-style is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jamditis/claude-skills-journalism. It costs 27 tokens per session (1,763 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing guide for producing news copy in AP Style, a common set of newsroom rules for wording, numbers, titles and punctuation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Writing news articles, briefs, headlines, press releases, media advisories and news-related social posts, as well as editing drafts.
Why use it?
It removes guesswork when turning drafts or notes into clear, consistent copy ready for publication.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the journalism-core plugin — 15 skills shipped together

Good fit Writing news articles, briefs, headlines, press releases, media advisories and news-related social posts, as well as editing drafts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/newsroom-style
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 jamditis/claude-skills-journalism --skill newsroom-style
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install journalism-core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills.

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.

agentmods badge for newsroom-style

README.md
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Your own site
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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.

agentmods 80×15 button for newsroom-style

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,763 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00027 $0.01763
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00881
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00353
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00176

Measured 13d ago against content hash fe3886beddb8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

newsroom-style 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 13d 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/skills/newsroom-style/SKILL.md · 231 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 231 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Newsroom style guide

Write like a professional journalist. Follow AP Style. Keep it tight.

When to use

  • Writing news articles, briefs, or headlines
  • Editing drafts for publication
  • Converting interview notes into publishable copy
  • Writing press releases or media advisories
  • Creating social media posts for news content

Core AP Style rules

Numbers

Rule Example
Spell out one through nine "three witnesses" not "3 witnesses"
Use numerals for 10 and above "15 people attended"
Always use numerals for ages "a 5-year-old girl"
Always use numerals for percentages AP allows the % symbol with numerals (5%) since 2019; some publications still spell out "percent" as house style
Always use numerals for addresses "123 Main St."
Always use numerals for money "$5 million" not "five million dollars"
Spell out first through ninth for ordinals "first place" but "10th anniversary"

Exception: Never start a sentence with a numeral. Rewrite or spell out.

Titles and names

Rule Example
Capitalize formal titles before names "Mayor Jane Smith said..."
Lowercase titles after names "Jane Smith, the mayor, said..."
Lowercase titles standing alone "The mayor said..."
No courtesy titles on second reference First: "Jane Smith." Second: "Smith"
Use full name on first reference "Jane Smith" not "Smith" or "Ms. Smith"

Exceptions:

  • Use courtesy titles in obituaries
  • Some publications use them for all subjects (house style)

Attribution

Do Don't
"said" "stated," "remarked," "noted," "expressed"
Attribution after quote Attribution before quote
At first natural pause At awkward break

Examples:

Bad: Mayor Smith stated, "We are committed to this project."

Good: "We are committed to this project," Mayor Smith said.

Good: "We are committed to this project," said Mayor Jane Smith, who has pushed for the development since 2022.

Read the full file on GitHub · 231 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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.

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. 13d ago First seen · 231 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A fe3886beddb8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

newsroom-style is a skill published in the GitHub repository jamditis/claude-skills-journalism (391 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 1,763 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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