story-pitch-writer

story-pitch-writer is a skill for Claude Code from ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills. It costs 44 tokens per session (1,275 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A concise proposal for a news story or other editorial project, covering its main angle, why it matters now, sources, and proposed format.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps prepare pitches for articles, news reports, documentaries, podcast episodes, and editorial meetings.
Why use it?
It turns a rough idea or early research into a document an editor or producer can evaluate quickly.

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 It helps prepare pitches for articles, news reports, documentaries, podcast episodes, and editorial meetings.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills/story-pitch-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 story-pitch-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 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,275 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 $0.00044 $0.01275
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00510
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00255
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00128

Measured 1mo ago against content hash dc6651f6e12e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

story-pitch-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 1mo 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/pre-production/story-pitch-writer/SKILL.md · 73 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 73 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Story Pitch Writer

What This Skill Does

Drafts a concise, editor-ready story pitch that captures the angle, news hook, key sources, and proposed format so you can walk into an editorial meeting with a compelling one-page proposal.

When To Use This Skill

  • You have a story idea and need to formalise it before pitching to an editor or commissioning producer
  • You are preparing for an editorial meeting and need to present multiple story ideas quickly
  • You have done early research and want to turn rough notes into a structured pitch
  • You are a freelancer pitching to an outlet you have not worked with before and need your proposal to follow professional conventions

What You Need To Provide

Required: The story idea in plain language — what happened, who is involved, and why it matters now. Optional: Target outlet or programme, proposed format (print feature, news report, documentary, podcast episode), any sources already identified, word count or runtime target, publication date or broadcast window.

How the Assistant Approaches This

  1. Identifies the news hook — the specific, timely reason this story matters right now — and places it at the top of the pitch.
  2. Sharpens the angle into one declarative sentence that an editor can use to decide immediately whether the story fits their publication.
  3. Structures the body of the pitch: who the story is about, what evidence or sources are available, what the proposed format is, and what makes this story different from existing coverage.
  4. Closes with a suggested headline, estimated length or runtime, and any access or logistical notes the editor needs to greenlight the pitch.

Output Format

One page (300–450 words). Plain prose — no bullet-pointed laundry lists. Paragraphs are short. Language is direct and confident, matching the register of the target outlet if specified. Ends with a suggested working headline and a one-line note on proposed format and length.

Quality Criteria

  • The news hook appears in the opening sentence or two — the reason to publish this story now is immediately clear
  • The angle is specific enough that an editor knows who this story is about and what it argues or reveals
  • At least two source types or pieces of evidence are mentioned (interview subject, document, data, scene)
  • The pitch does not oversell or make claims the story cannot yet support
  • The proposed format and length are stated explicitly
  • Language is appropriate for a professional editorial room — no jargon, no hype

Read the full file on GitHub · 73 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. 1mo ago First seen · 73 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A dc6651f6e12e

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story-pitch-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills (37 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 1,275 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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