press-release-writer

press-release-writer is a skill for Claude Code from ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills. It costs 32 tokens per session (1,443 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A complete press release announcing news such as a product launch, partnership, appointment, award, or organisational milestone. It follows the format commonly used by news distribution services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare announcements for distribution to media, including the event details, spokesperson quote, dateline, and supporting background.
Why use it?
It turns a briefing into a structured announcement with the most important information first, so journalists can quickly understand the news.

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 prepare announcements for distribution to media, including the event details, spokesperson quote, dateline, and supporting background.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills/press-release-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 press-release-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 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,443 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 $0.00032 $0.01443
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00722
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00289
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00144

Measured 8d ago against content hash bcd5ad5ab15c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

press-release-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/press-office/press-release-writer/SKILL.md · 99 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 99 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Press Release Writer

What This Skill Does

Writes a complete, newswire-ready press release from a briefing note, following inverted-pyramid structure and standard AP/PR-wire conventions.

When To Use This Skill

  • You need to announce a product launch, partnership, appointment, award, or organisational milestone
  • You have a briefing note or bullet-point facts and need a publication-ready document within the hour
  • You want a draft that wire services (PR Newswire, Business Wire, Globe Newswire) will accept without structural edits
  • The communications team is small and needs to produce multiple releases in a single day

What You Need To Provide

Required: The core announcement (what happened, who is involved, when, where); at least one attributed quote from a named spokesperson with their title; the organisation's city/state of origin for the dateline.

Optional: Embargo date and time; a second quote from a partner, client, or external voice; supporting data or statistics; background context; boilerplate "About" paragraph; media contact name, phone, and email.

How the Assistant Approaches This

  1. Identifies the single most newsworthy fact and places it in the headline and opening sentence — no "we are pleased to announce" throat-clearing.
  2. Builds the first paragraph to answer who, what, when, where, and why-it-matters in under 50 words.
  3. Expands in subsequent paragraphs in descending order of news value, integrating quotes at natural breaks rather than front-loading them.
  4. Closes with boilerplate, embargo notice (if provided), and a standard media contact block formatted for wire distribution.
  5. Flags any factual gaps that would require confirmation before publication.

Output Format

400–600 words. Headline in title case, sub-headline optional. Dateline in AP style (CITY, State, Month DD, YYYY —). Body in short paragraphs (2–3 sentences each). One or two pull quotes in quotation marks with full attribution. "###" end mark. Contact block at the foot. Plain prose — no bullet points in the body. Tone: neutral third-person, factual, formal but not stiff.

Read the full file on GitHub · 99 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 · 99 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A bcd5ad5ab15c

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press-release-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills (32 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 1,443 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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