op-ed-writer

op-ed-writer is a skill for Claude Code from ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills. It costs 52 tokens per session (1,820 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing assistant for a bylined opinion article, meaning an article published under an executive’s or expert’s name in a newspaper or trade publication.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to draft guest columns about policy, industry trends, cultural events, organisational positions, or relevant crises.
Why use it?
It develops a clear argument from a briefing and evidence without making the article read like an advertisement or press release.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

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

Good fit Use it to draft guest columns about policy, industry trends, cultural events, organisational positions, or relevant crises.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills/op-ed-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 op-ed-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 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,820 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 $0.00052 $0.01820
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00910
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00364
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00182

Measured 8d ago against content hash ec2a92fa0d0a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

op-ed-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/content/op-ed-writer/SKILL.md · 96 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Op-Ed Writer

What This Skill Does

Writes a bylined opinion article for placement in a newspaper or trade publication, building a thought-leadership argument from a briefing and key messages into a piece that reads as the spokesperson's genuine voice, not a press release in disguise.

When To Use This Skill

  • You want a senior executive, expert, or spokesperson to build a public profile through published opinion
  • A policy change, industry trend, or cultural moment creates an opportunity for your organisation's leader to weigh in publicly
  • You have been invited to submit a guest column or comment piece and need a draft within a short deadline
  • A crisis or controversy gives your organisation a legitimate platform to explain its position at length

What You Need To Provide

Required: The author's name, title, and organisation; the central argument (the one thing the piece must persuade the reader to believe or do); the target publication and its audience (general public, trade sector, policymakers, investors); two or three supporting points or pieces of evidence that back the argument.

Optional: The author's personal connection to the subject; a specific news hook or recent event the piece responds to; the publication's approximate word-count limit; the author's preferred register (formal academic / engaged professional / conversational expert); any positions the author must not be seen to take.

How the Assistant Approaches This

  1. Opens with a specific, concrete observation — an anecdote, a data point, a recent event, or a direct challenge — not with the author's credentials or the organisation's history.
  2. States the central argument clearly by the end of the second paragraph, so readers and editors immediately know the piece's thesis.
  3. Develops the argument through two or three concrete evidence points, not a list of talking points dressed as prose.
  4. Acknowledges the strongest counterargument briefly and rebuts it — this is what separates genuine opinion from marketing copy.
  5. Closes with a call to action, a challenge, or a restatement of the stakes — not a summary of the preceding paragraphs.

Read the full file on GitHub · 96 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 · 96 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A ec2a92fa0d0a

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op-ed-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills (32 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 1,820 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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