holding-statement-writer

holding-statement-writer is a skill for Claude Code from ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills. It costs 39 tokens per session (1,036 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A short public statement for an organisation facing media questions before all the facts are known. It acknowledges the situation while leaving room for an ongoing investigation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a story is breaking, media are calling, or legal, regulatory, or internal constraints delay a full statement.
Why use it?
It lets the organisation respond on the record without making premature claims or commitments.

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 when a story is breaking, media are calling, or legal, regulatory, or internal constraints delay a full statement.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills/holding-statement-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 holding-statement-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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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,036 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 $0.01036
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00518
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00207
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00104

Measured 8d ago against content hash 7c068d9e302c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

holding-statement-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/pr-communications/crisis-comms/holding-statement-writer/SKILL.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Holding Statement Writer

What This Skill Does

Writes a brief holding statement for an organisation that is under media pressure but does not yet have all the facts — buying time without going silent and without making premature commitments.

When To Use This Skill

  • A story is breaking and media are calling, but the internal investigation is not yet complete
  • You need to say something on record before the "organisation declined to comment" line appears in the article
  • Legal, executive, or regulatory constraints prevent you from making a full statement right now
  • You have a holding statement from a previous incident that is no longer appropriate and needs a new one written fast

What You Need To Provide

Required: What the media is asking about (the allegation, incident, or story); the organisation's name; what you are and are not able to confirm right now; approximately when a full statement will be available (even a rough time — "by end of day" is better than nothing).

Optional: A specific spokesperson name; the channel (responding to press directly, posting to website, issuing to wire); any facts that are confirmed and safe to include; any specific phrases or framings that legal has approved or prohibited.

How the Assistant Approaches This

  1. Writes a statement that is short enough to deliver in one breath but substantive enough that journalists cannot report it as a non-answer.
  2. Acknowledges the subject of the inquiry directly — does not pretend the question has not been asked.
  3. States clearly and without elaborate explanation that the organisation is in the process of gathering information.
  4. Gives a specific or approximate timeframe for when more information will follow.
  5. Closes with a single concrete commitment — an update time, a point of contact, or both.

Output Format

50–120 words. One to three short paragraphs, or one single paragraph. Written in first person plural ("We") for the organisation. Present tense. Tone: calm, composed, not defensive, not evasive. No waffle, no "we take this very seriously" without substance behind it. No marketing language. Suitable for reading aloud to a journalist on the phone, posting to a website, or issuing to wire.

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 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 · 71 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 7c068d9e302c

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holding-statement-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills (32 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 1,036 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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