story-angle-finder

story-angle-finder is a skill for Claude Code from ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,777 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An idea-generation tool that develops several distinct ways to cover a broad topic or news event, each with a target audience and reporting approach.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for story pitches, news coverage, features, profiles, and opinion ideas.
Why use it?
It helps when you have a subject but no clear story to pursue. Comparing different perspectives makes it easier to choose a focused, publishable angle.

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 for story pitches, news coverage, features, profiles, and opinion ideas.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills/story-angle-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 story-angle-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 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,777 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 $0.00035 $0.01777
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00889
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00355
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00178

Measured 8d ago against content hash 62e580eae90a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

story-angle-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 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/story-angle-finder/SKILL.md · 119 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 119 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Story Angle Finder

What This Skill Does

Generates 6–8 distinct editorial angles from a broad topic or news event, each with a unique perspective, target audience, and reporting approach.

When To Use This Skill

  • You have a topic but not yet a story — you know the subject but not the specific angle that makes it publishable
  • You are pitching and need to see the full range of angles before deciding which to develop
  • An editor has given you a beat or broad subject and you need to identify the most compelling entry point
  • You want to see how the same event could be covered differently across publication types (news, feature, opinion, profile)

What You Need To Provide

Required: The broad topic, subject area, or news event you are working with; publication type or target outlet (or describe your audience if no specific outlet) Optional: Any angles you have already considered and want to avoid; specific sources or data you already have access to; geographic scope (local, national, international); timeframe (breaking, evergreen, anniversary); whether you need a pitch-ready one-liner for each angle

How the Assistant Approaches This

  1. Identifies at least six distinct editorial lenses through which the topic can be approached: the personal/human story, the systemic/structural analysis, the data story, the historical perspective, the counterintuitive or contrarian take, the profile, and the process/how-it-works explainer — selecting those most appropriate to the topic
  2. For each angle, specifies the core question the story would answer, the primary type of reporting required (documents, sources, data, observation), and the most likely publication home
  3. Marks which angles are time-sensitive versus evergreen, and which require significant access versus desk research
  4. Notes where angles overlap with common coverage so the journalist can differentiate their pitch
  5. Closes with a "Next Step" recommendation: which one or two angles to develop first given the user's access and publication target, and whether to run research-brief-creator or headline-generator as the immediate next skill

Read the full file on GitHub · 119 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 · 119 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 62e580eae90a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

story-angle-finder is a skill published in the GitHub repository ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills (32 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,777 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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