beat-setup-guide

beat-setup-guide is a skill for Claude Code from ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills. It costs 43 tokens per session (13,872 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup plan for a journalist starting or taking over a coverage area, including sources, documents, recurring events, institutions, contacts, and a first-month schedule.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to launch a new beat, rebuild a source network, inventory records, and plan the first 30 days of coverage.
Why use it?
It helps build the basic knowledge and relationships needed to cover an unfamiliar subject consistently. It also preserves useful structure when a beat changes hands.

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 Use it to launch a new beat, rebuild a source network, inventory records, and plan the first 30 days of coverage.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills/beat-setup-guide
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 beat-setup-guide
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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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 13,872 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 $0.00043 $0.13872
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.06936
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.02774
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.01387

Measured 7d ago against content hash 09e058d747eb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

beat-setup-guide 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 7d 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/ideation/beat-setup-guide/SKILL.md · 451 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 451 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Beat Setup Guide

What This Skill Does

Generates a structured setup guide for a journalist taking over or launching a new beat — covering the source map, document inventory, recurring calendar, key contacts, institutional landscape, story seeds, and a 30-day ramp-up plan.

When To Use This Skill

  • You are taking over a beat from a departing reporter and received no handover notes
  • You are launching a new beat that your newsroom has never staffed before
  • You are moving from one publication to another and need to rebuild your source network from scratch in a new geography or subject area
  • An editor has asked you to scope a beat before the newsroom commits to staffing it
  • You are a freelancer developing a specialty area and need a systematic approach to building coverage infrastructure

What You Need To Provide

Required: The beat description (subject area and scope); geographic scope (city, region, state, national); publication type and audience (daily newspaper, alt-weekly, trade publication, digital-first, magazine); any known major institutions, agencies, or organizations the beat covers Optional: How many institutions or jurisdictions fall within the beat; whether a predecessor held the beat and what (if anything) was handed over; your existing familiarity with the subject area; known upcoming events or deadlines in the first 90 days; any specific editorial priorities your editor has flagged; the size of the newsroom (affects how much you can delegate)

How the Assistant Approaches This

  1. Maps the institutional landscape first: who holds power, who holds information, and where the two overlap. Identifies the formal decision-making structure (elected officials, boards, appointed administrators) and the informal power structure (lobbyists, major donors, union leaders, community organizers, longtime staff who outlast their bosses). For each institution on the beat, traces the governance chain — who appoints whom, who controls the budget, who sets the agenda — and notes where formal authority diverges from actual influence.

Read the full file on GitHub · 451 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. 7d ago First seen · 451 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 09e058d747eb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

beat-setup-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills (30 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 13,872 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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