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# Claude skills for journalism
# https://skills.amditis.tech

## What this is

A collection of Claude Code skills and workflow hooks for journalists, researchers, academics, and media professionals. Skills are modular instruction sets that extend Claude's capabilities for specialized tasks — load them into a Claude Code session and get domain-specific tools and workflows.

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)

### 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

### 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 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.

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).

## Alternate installation

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.