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# Agent skills for journalism

# https://skills.amditis.tech

## What this is

A collection of standards-based agent skills and Claude Code workflow hooks for journalists, researchers, academics, and media professionals. The skills provide specialized tools and workflows for compatible agents, including Claude Code and Codex. Claude-specific commands, agents, and hooks remain scoped to Claude Code.

Source: https://github.com/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism

## Who made it

Joe Amditis, associate director of operations, Center for Cooperative Media, Montclair State University.

Personal site: https://jamditis.com

- ## Skills (62 total)

+ ## Skills (63 total)

### Journalism and verification

- source-verification, SIFT method, verification trails, source credibility, deepfakes/C2PA

- foia-requests, drafting and tracking public records requests

- brazil-records-requests, Brazilian public records requests under the Access to Information Law (LAI)

- fact-check-workflow, claim verification, evidence chains

- crisis-communications, breaking news protocols, rapid verification

- social-media-intelligence, OSINT, account analysis, social media verification

### Reporting and editorial

- interview-prep, research, question development, background checks

- interview-transcription, recording notes, quote handling, attribution

- newsroom-style, AP Style enforcement and editorial standards

- data-journalism, data analysis and data-driven storytelling

- editorial-workflow, assignment tracking, story calendars

- story-pitch, pitch templates and pitch-writing workflows

- photo-metadata, embed caption, byline, credit, alt text, keywords, and license into a photo's IPTC/EXIF/XMP metadata for wire and archive use

### Academic and research

- academic-writing, research writing, citation, lit review

- digital-archive, archive building and management

- web-archiving, Wayback, Archive.today, URL preservation

- content-access, Unpaywall, CORE, open access tools

- page-monitoring, change detection and alerts

- free-apis-catalog, curated free-API catalog with sunset/currency notes

### Writing quality

- ai-writing-detox, eliminate AI writing patterns from your work

- newsletter-publishing, email newsletters and subscriber workflows

### Development

- vibe-coding, AI-assisted development for non-engineers

- test-first-bugs, test-driven bug fixing

- one-way-door, flag irreversible architectural decisions

- electron-dev, Electron app patterns

- python-pipeline, data pipeline workflows

- web-scraping, content extraction

- zero-build-frontend, no-build web apps

- mobile-debugging, Eruda, vConsole, remote debug

- accessibility-compliance, WCAG, alt text, a11y

- web-ui-best-practices, signs of craft in web UI

- claude-md-updater, propose scoped CLAUDE.md updates from a session

- context-engineering-fundamentals, preserve instructions, evidence, and state in long agent sessions

+ - director, explicit top-tier direction through the lower-tier agents and models configured in CLAUDE.md

### Security

- security-checklist, pre-deployment security audit

- secure-auth, authentication patterns

- api-hardening, API security

- supply-chain-hardening, npm/bun install-time cooldown plus sandboxed pre-install scan; defends against Mini Shai-Hulud-class supply-chain worms (paired with /security-toolkit:hotpatch slash command)

### Project templates

- project-memory, generate CLAUDE.md files for new projects

- project-retrospective, generate LESSONS.md files

- template-selector, pick the right CLAUDE.md or LESSONS.md template

### Documents and explainers

- pdf-design, design and edit professional PDF reports and proposals

- pdf-playground, document design (proposals, reports)

- visual-explainer, generate self-contained HTML pages that visually explain systems

- okf-wiki, scaffold an Open Knowledge Format knowledge base (one-concept-per-file markdown, validator, session-start orientation hooks)

### Video

- video-download, download authorized video from supported social platforms

- video-transcribe, transcribe audio and video with local Whisper workflows

- video-frames, extract and inspect representative video frames

- video-dashboard, build a local dashboard from transcript and frame analysis

### Workflow patterns (superjawn)

- using-superjawn, establishes how to find and use skills

- brainstorming, required before creative work

- writing-plans, multi-step task planning before touching code

- writing-skills, creating or editing skills

- test-driven-development, TDD before writing implementation code

- systematic-debugging, bug triage before proposing fixes

- subagent-driven-development, parallel task execution in one session

- dispatching-parallel-agents, independent tasks across 2+ agents

- executing-plans, run a written implementation plan

- requesting-code-review, verify completed work before merging

- receiving-code-review, handle review feedback effectively

- verification-before-completion, confirm work is complete before committing

- finishing-a-development-branch, decide how to land completed work

- using-git-worktrees, isolate feature work from current workspace

## Hooks (17 workflow hooks)

Hooks run automatically at specific workflow events. Most are non-blocking warnings; three block intentionally: `one-way-door-check` exits 2 to prevent irreversible architectural decisions, `enforce-test-first` blocks source edits until a failing test exists, and `no-ai-attribution` denies a commit, PR, or comment that carries AI authorship credit.

### Writing quality

- ap-style-check, flags AP Style violations on write/edit

- ai-slop-detector, warns about AI writing patterns

- accessibility-check, checks alt text, headings, link text

- copywriting-preflight, interviews for intent before drafting a new piece or revision

### Verification

- source-attribution-check, flags unattributed quotes or claims

- verification-reminder, prompts fact verification

- data-methodology-check, ensures methodology is documented

### Editorial workflow

- source-diversity-check, notes sourcing diversity

- legal-review-flag, flags potential defamation risk

- pre-publish-checklist, pre-publication reminder at session end

- deadline-tracker, surfaces upcoming deadlines at session start

### Preservation

- archive-reminder, reminds to archive URLs

### Development

- one-way-door-check, blocks irreversible architectural decisions

- bug-report-detector, detects when user is describing a bug

- enforce-test-first, blocks source edits until a test is written

- pre-commit-review, surfaces the staged diff for review before a commit and flags removed guardrails

- no-ai-attribution, blocks AI authorship credit in commits, PR bodies, and comments

## Plugins

Skills above are distributed as Claude Code plugins. Install them in Claude Code via:

```

/plugin marketplace add jamditis/claude-skills-journalism

/plugin install <plugin-name>@claude-skills-journalism

```

Restart your Claude Code session after installing or updating a plugin so the new skills and commands register.

Codex can use the repository's legacy-compatible marketplace route for the 15 nested `journalism-core` skills:

```bash

codex plugin marketplace add jamditis/claude-skills-journalism

codex plugin add journalism-core@claude-skills-journalism

```

This repository does not ship native Codex manifests. The route does not convert Claude-specific commands, agents, hooks, or root-level skills into Codex components.

- Plugins (12): `journalism-core` (15 skills), `research-toolkit` (6), `dev-toolkit` (12), `security-toolkit` (4 skills + /hotpatch command), `project-templates-toolkit` (3), `pdf-design` (1), `pdf-playground` (1), `visual-explainer` (1), `video-toolkit` (4), `okf-wiki` (1), `superjawn` (14), `autocontext` (cross-session knowledge persistence, hooks, commands, and agents rather than skills).

+ Plugins (12): `journalism-core` (15 skills), `research-toolkit` (6), `dev-toolkit` (13), `security-toolkit` (4 skills + /hotpatch command), `project-templates-toolkit` (3), `pdf-design` (1), `pdf-playground` (1), `visual-explainer` (1), `video-toolkit` (4), `okf-wiki` (1), `superjawn` (14), `autocontext` (cross-session knowledge persistence, hooks, commands, and agents rather than skills).

## Alternate installation

Install the 15 `journalism-core` skills through the Agent Skills standard for Codex:

```bash

npx skills@latest add https://github.com/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/tree/master/journalism-core --skill '*' --agent codex --copy -g -y

```

For Claude Code, clone the repo and copy or symlink individual skill directories into `~/.claude/skills/`:

```bash

git clone https://github.com/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism.git ~/projects/claude-skills-journalism

ln -sfn ~/projects/claude-skills-journalism/research-toolkit/skills/free-apis-catalog ~/.claude/skills/free-apis-catalog

```

## License

MIT. Use, adapt, and share freely.