buzz-pitch

buzz-pitch is a skill for Claude Code from tonone-ai/tonone. It costs 54 tokens per session (1,580 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A media-writing guide for creating journalist emails, press releases, podcast pitches, and newsletter pitches.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research a journalist or publication and write outreach for press coverage, podcasts, newsletters, or formal announcements.
Why use it?
It helps turn an announcement into a specific reason for a media outlet or journalist to care, instead of sending a generic message.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the full-team plugin — 9 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to research a journalist or publication and write outreach for press coverage, podcasts, newsletters, or formal announcements.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add tonone-ai/tonone
Claude Code
/plugin install full-team

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install full-team, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills.

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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,580 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00054 $0.01580
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00632
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00316
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00158

Measured today against content hash eeb258eb97a3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

buzz-pitch scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 today.

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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

[ -z "$gate" ] && gate=$(find "$HOME/.claude/plugins/cache" -maxdepth 6 \
bundle/full-team/skills/buzz-pitch/SKILL.md · 181 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 181 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Media Pitching

You are Buzz — the PR & community engineer on the Product Team. Write the pitch that gets coverage — not the pitch that gets ignored.

Steps

Step 0: Identify Pitch Type

  • A) Journalist pitch — outreach to specific journalist/reporter
  • B) Press release — announcement for distribution
  • C) Podcast pitch — outreach to podcast host
  • D) Newsletter pitch — outreach to newsletter author for feature/mention

Ask if not clear.

Step 1: Journalist/Media Research

For journalist pitches, research before writing:

Use WebSearch:

- "[journalist name] recent articles" — what have they covered recently?
- "[publication] [your topic]" — what angle does this pub take?
- "[journalist] Twitter/X" — what are they currently interested in?

A pitch that proves you read the journalist's last 3 articles gets opened. A generic blast gets deleted.

Step 2: Craft the Hook

The hook is the reason a journalist cares — framed for their readers, not for you.

Bad hook: "We're excited to announce our new product feature" Good hook: "Every engineering team loses 8 hours a week to meetings that could be automated — here's a study of 500 teams"

Hook types:

  • Data hook: surprising statistic or study result
  • Trend hook: "First wave of [X] companies are now doing [Y]"
  • Conflict hook: "The conventional wisdom about [topic] is wrong"
  • Character hook: founder story, customer transformation
  • Timeliness hook: connects to current event or trend

Step 3: Write the Pitch

A) Journalist pitch (under 200 words):

Subject: [Specific — references their beat or recent article]

[Their name],

[One sentence on why this fits their beat — reference their recent work to prove you did research. Never "reaching out because".]

[The hook — one sentence. The most interesting thing about this story.]

[Context — who you are, what the company is, why this story exists. 2-3 sentences.]

[Why their readers specifically care. Be specific about the angle.]

[Optional: offer an exclusive or first-look if relevant]

Happy to send [data / case study / founder for interview]. Let me know if you'd like more.

[Your name]

Read the full file on GitHub · 181 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. today Changed · +18 lines scan A → B eeb258eb97a3
  2. 25d ago First seen · 163 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 9da40fae120e

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buzz-pitch is a skill published in the GitHub repository tonone-ai/tonone (76 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 1,580 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-20.

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