template-selector

template-selector is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jamditis/claude-skills-journalism. It costs 31 tokens per session (1,262 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A decision guide that chooses the appropriate CLAUDE.md or LESSONS.md project template based on what you are building. These files provide project-specific instructions or lessons for an AI coding assistant.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to classify journalism, publishing, event, archive, research, or general software projects and select the matching template category.
Why use it?
It helps you avoid choosing a template by guesswork when starting a project or deciding how to organize it.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the project-templates-toolkit plugin — 3 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to classify journalism, publishing, event, archive, research, or general software projects and select the matching template category.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install project-templates-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 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 template-selector

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/template-selector/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/template-selector)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/template-selector"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/template-selector/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for template-selector

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/template-selector"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/template-selector.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,262 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 $0.00031 $0.01262
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00631
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00252
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00126

Measured 11d ago against content hash 7fdc520a191d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

template-selector 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 11d 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.

project-templates-toolkit/skills/template-selector/SKILL.md · 164 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 164 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Template selector

Match projects to the correct template category. Don't guess, use the decision tree.

Quick reference

Project type Template category
Newsroom AI tool, fact-checker editorial-tool
Conference, summit, workshop event-website
Newsletter, podcast, blog publication
Investigation, data journalism research-project
CMS workflow, syndication content-pipeline
Historical collection, archive digital-archive

Decision tree

Is it for journalism/publishing?
├── Yes →
│   ├── Has specific end date/event? → event-website
│   ├── Ongoing content series? → publication
│   ├── Historical/preservation? → digital-archive
│   ├── Newsroom tool/AI? → editorial-tool
│   ├── CMS/automation? → content-pipeline
│   └── Investigation with scope? → research-project
│
└── No (general software) →
    Use general template or another collection

Detailed category descriptions

editorial-tool

Use when: Building newsroom tools, writing assistants, fact-checkers, AI-powered research tools, moderation systems, workflow automation for journalists

Not for: Generic productivity tools, non-journalism software

Signs it's an editorial tool:

  • Primary users are journalists, editors, or producers
  • Helps with a specific editorial workflow step
  • Requires accuracy/trust for publication decisions

event-website

Use when: Building sites for conferences, summits, workshops, or events with specific dates

Not for: Ongoing content, organization websites without events, event management software (that's editorial-tool)

Signs it's an event website:

  • Has a specific event date (or date range)
  • Registration/attendance is involved
  • Content includes speakers, schedule, venue info

publication

Use when: Building newsletters, podcasts, blogs, magazines, or ongoing content series with regular publishing schedule

Not for: One-off articles, static content sites, CMSes that power publications (that's editorial-tool)

Read the full file on GitHub · 164 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. 11d ago First seen · 164 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 7fdc520a191d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

template-selector is a skill published in the GitHub repository jamditis/claude-skills-journalism (389 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 1,262 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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