data-story-finder

data-story-finder is a skill for Claude Code from ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills. It costs 39 tokens per session (1,683 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for finding publishable news angles in a dataset before writing begins. It looks at changes, comparisons, geographic differences, and unusual results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to develop story pitches, test an editor's idea, review released data, or find information an organisation has not highlighted.
Why use it?
It helps separate genuinely newsworthy findings from a simple description of what the data contains.

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 develop story pitches, test an editor's idea, review released data, or find information an organisation has not highlighted.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills/data-story-finder
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 data-story-finder
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 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,683 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 $0.00039 $0.01683
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00842
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00337
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00168

Measured 12d ago against content hash 9f53d27e6b6b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

data-story-finder 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 12d 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/data-journalism/analysis/data-story-finder/SKILL.md · 92 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Data Story Finder

What This Skill Does

Identifies the newsworthy story or stories hidden inside a dataset before any writing begins — surfacing angles, outliers, trends, and comparisons that are genuinely publishable.

When To Use This Skill

  • You have a dataset but are unsure which part of it is actually news
  • You need to pitch a data story to an editor and want compelling angles, not just descriptions
  • You want to stress-test a dataset before committing reporting time to a particular angle
  • A PR or institution has released data and you want to find what they are not publicising

What You Need To Provide

Required: A description of what the dataset contains — column headers, row count, time period covered, and source. Include a small representative sample (5–20 rows) if possible. Optional: The institution or event the data came from; any story hypothesis you already have; publication type and audience.

How the Assistant Approaches This

  1. Reads the dataset description and sample to understand the structure, variables, and coverage period.
  2. Applies five standard news-value lenses: magnitude, change over time, geographic variation, outliers, and hidden/buried comparisons.
  3. Generates a ranked list of potential story angles with a plain-language summary of what makes each newsworthy, what data point supports it, and what additional reporting would be needed to publish it.

Output Format

A structured document with: a one-paragraph overview of what the dataset does and doesn't show, followed by three to six numbered story angles. Each angle includes: a one-sentence story pitch, the specific data point or pattern that supports it, a confidence note (strong / tentative / requires verification), and one or two reporting questions to pursue next. Plain language throughout — no statistical jargon unless necessary, and always explained when used.

Quality Criteria

  • At least three distinct angles, not variations of the same angle
  • Every angle is grounded in a specific data point from the sample, not a generalisation
  • Confidence ratings are honest — tentative findings are marked as such
  • No angle claims significance beyond what the data actually shows
  • Reporting questions are concrete and actionable, not generic

Read the full file on GitHub · 92 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. 12d ago First seen · 92 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 9f53d27e6b6b

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data-story-finder is a skill published in the GitHub repository ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills (32 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 1,683 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.