headline-generator

headline-generator is a skill for Claude Code from ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills. It costs 29 tokens per session (1,499 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing aid that creates headline and subheadline options for an article or feature in different styles and lengths.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to develop, compare, and adapt headlines for newspapers, magazines, trade publications, and digital media.
Why use it?
It helps when a story is finished but its title is unclear, too long, or poorly matched to the publication and audience.

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, compare, and adapt headlines for newspapers, magazines, trade publications, and digital media.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills/headline-generator
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 headline-generator
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 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,499 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 $0.00029 $0.01499
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00749
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00300
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00150

Measured 8d ago against content hash bc08b6680d5b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

headline-generator 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/ideation/headline-generator/SKILL.md · 110 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 110 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Headline Generator

What This Skill Does

Generates a range of headline and subheadline options across different registers, lengths, and publication styles for a given article or feature.

When To Use This Skill

  • You have a finished or near-finished article and need headline options before submitting to an editor
  • You are stuck on a headline and want to break out of a single approach
  • You need headlines calibrated to a specific publication's voice (tabloid, literary magazine, trade press, digital news)
  • You want a main deck headline with subheadline options for long-form features

What You Need To Provide

Required: Article topic or a 2–4 sentence summary of the piece; publication type or audience (e.g., national newspaper, trade publication, literary magazine, digital media brand) Optional: Existing working headline you want to improve or use as reference; headline character limit; whether a subheadline (dek) is needed; any words or framing to avoid; tone directive (serious, provocative, wry, neutral)

How the Assistant Approaches This

  1. Identifies the article's core argument, revelation, or conflict — the one thing that makes this piece worth reading — and uses that as the anchor for all headline options
  2. Generates headlines across distinct structural approaches: declarative statement, question, imperative, ironic twist, "x of y" construction, and the clean noun-phrase format used by literary and long-form publications
  3. Calibrates register to the specified publication type — tabloid vocabulary and punctuation differ fundamentally from literary magazine style; trade press follows different conventions from consumer lifestyle
  4. For each main headline, writes a matching subheadline (dek) that adds the reporting context the main head omits
  5. Flags which options work best in print versus digital (SEO-aware headlines often sacrifice elegance; print heads can afford more wit)
  6. Closes with a one-sentence "Next Step" specifying which headline to take forward, whether to run social-media-excerpt to adapt the winning headline for platforms, and whether newsletter-teaser-writer is needed for distribution copy

Read the full file on GitHub · 110 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 · 110 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A bc08b6680d5b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

headline-generator is a skill published in the GitHub repository ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills (32 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 1,499 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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