article-summary-writer

article-summary-writer is a skill for Claude Code from ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills. It costs 42 tokens per session (1,721 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing tool that turns a completed article into a short standfirst, abstract, deck, newsletter summary, social preview, or meta description. A standfirst or deck is the short text placed near a headline to explain what the article is about.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for preparing article introductions, newsletter copy, database abstracts, social media text, and search-result descriptions.
Why use it?
Editors and publishing systems need concise versions of an article for different places and length limits. This keeps the central argument and news value while avoiding unnecessary spoilers.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the autopunk-media-skills plugin — 187 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for preparing article introductions, newsletter copy, database abstracts, social media text, and search-result descriptions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills/article-summary-writer
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 ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills --skill article-summary-writer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install autopunk-media-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 187 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,721 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 $0.00042 $0.01721
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00860
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00344
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00172

Measured 8d ago against content hash c6fa31f28547, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

article-summary-writer 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 8d 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/magazine-journalism/writing/article-summary-writer/SKILL.md · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Article Summary Writer

What This Skill Does

Writes a concise summary, standfirst, abstract, or deck for a completed article at a specified length and format — capturing the essential argument and news value without spoiling the reading experience.

When To Use This Skill

  • You need a standfirst or deck for a published article and the editor wants it in under 50 words
  • You're preparing newsletter copy and need a two-sentence summary of each article to drive click-through
  • An article needs an abstract for a database, archive, or academic citation
  • You're writing social media preview text and need the article's core argument distilled to a single sentence
  • The CMS requires a meta description and you want it to reflect the article's substance, not just keywords

What You Need To Provide

Required:

  • The full article text (or a detailed summary of its content, argument, and conclusion)
  • The summary format: standfirst, deck, abstract, newsletter teaser, meta description, or general summary

Optional:

  • Target length (specific word count or character count; defaults vary by format — see Output Format)
  • Tone: formal, conversational, urgent, or neutral
  • Whether the summary should avoid revealing the article's conclusion (important for opinion pieces and investigations)
  • Target audience if different from the article's primary readership

How the Assistant Approaches This

  1. Identifies the article's core argument. Before writing, isolates the single most important claim, finding, or narrative the article makes. This is not always the lede — sometimes the real argument emerges in the middle of the piece. The summary leads with this core, not with setup or background.

  2. Matches the format conventions. Each summary type has distinct conventions:

    • Standfirst/deck: Complements the headline — adds the "why should I read this" that the headline implies but doesn't deliver. Never repeats the headline's phrasing.
    • Abstract: States the subject, method, findings, and significance in neutral academic register.
    • Newsletter teaser: Creates a curiosity gap — gives enough to interest, withholds enough to compel the click.
    • Meta description: Front-loads the most important information within 155 characters for search engine display.
    • General summary: Captures the article's argument, key evidence, and conclusion in proportion to the specified length.

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 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. 8d ago First seen · 111 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A c6fa31f28547

Subscribe to this mod's changes

article-summary-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills (32 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 1,721 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 2026-09-04.

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