The open-source skills that turn your agent into a full PR team.
Install once. Your agent — Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, OpenClaw — becomes a PR team.
curl -fsSL newsjack.sh | bashAre you an agent? Check out Getting started
Are you a human? 📋 Copy this prompt to any AI:
help me install https://newsjack.sh from the github repo and setup a daily newsjack monitoring for my company.
Jump to platform-specific setup below for per platform breakdown.
Four problems, separate lanes.
Each capability is a skill. Invoke it by name — /angle-generator, /fact-check —
or just describe what you want and your agent picks the right one.
- ⚙️
/newsjack-monitor-setup— build the monitoring profile once: your standing, beat topics, competitors, proof assets, spokespeople, feeds, and optional Slack delivery (local agent only) - 📡
/newsjack-detector— find newsjacking opportunities: fresh stories you have the standing to jump on before the wave breaks, with finished reports optionally delivered to Slack (see a sample run) - 🔎
/news-search— dated, attributed articles on a topic, company, or competitor: when they launch, raise, or stumble, you know - 🔍
/story-origin-check— verify the story is still fresh: who broke it, who owns it, what oxygen's left - 🧹
/relevance-coarse-filter— cheap high-recall first pass that throws out obvious junk before anything expensive runs - 🚦
/newsjack-triage— route surviving stories by whether you actually have standing: pitch now, watch, or surface as big news - 🔔
/coverage-tracker-setup— declare the keywords you want watched, and what each one actually means (local agent only) - 🗞️
/coverage-tracker— Google Alerts-style keyword tracking with LLM filtering for real features, alerting only on genuinely new coverage
- 🎯
/angle-generator— turn one update into hooks framed for different beats - 📝
/headline-generator— headlines and pitch subject lines built from the story's raw facts - 🥊
/meanest-editor— roast your pitch against the rubric editors actually use - 🚨
/crisis-holding— holding statements, journalist Q&A posture, and what not to say, with a hard legal-counsel gate - 🎙️
/reactive-comment— triage inbound HARO-style source requests, draft only the real fits - ✅
/fact-check— extract claims, verify each, flag the shaky ones before you send - 🤝
/journalist-fit-check— will this reporter actually care, or are you spamming? - 🥇
/same-outlet-ranker— rank colleagues at the same publication and send to one, instead of spraying the masthead - 🗣️
/voice-extractor— fingerprint your real writing, kill the AI tells - 📋
/find-journalists— build a fit-checked media list, optionally through Medialyst's approval-gated research workflow - 📰
/press-clip— turn a live article URL into a branded press-clip PDF: the outlet's own logo and layout kept, ads and clutter stripped, the client's mention highlighted (local agent only)
- 🗺️
/pr-strategist— opinionated walkthrough if you're not PR-fluent yet: audience first, positioning second, news pegs third, drumbeat over big-bang - 📅
/pr-calendar— plan six months of source-backed upcoming hooks, with prior-year coverage patterns for angle inspiration - 📊
/newsworthiness-check— cold read on whether it clears the bar before you act
- ✍️
/ai-visibility-writing— audit or fact-preservingly revise supplied copy so AI answers can reuse it, without inventing evidence or promising rankings or citations - 🧭
/build-ai-visibility-panel— to measure it, run this one first: it drives the six below it in order, turning any public URL and description into an evidence-bound prompt list across intent, journey, B0–B5 proximity, aided status, roles, locales, surfaces, and tracking partitions - 👥
/icp-evidence-analysis— turn a company and market dossier into testable ideal-customer hypotheses, buying roles, triggers, disqualifiers, and named research gaps - 🧩
/buyer-job-intent-analysis— recover the jobs, struggling moments, workarounds, and authentic buyer language from real customer, review, forum, and search evidence - 🏗️
/prompt-proximity-architecture— blueprint which prompt cells are required, optional, and prohibited before anyone writes prompt wording - 💬
/realistic-prompt-generation— write natural prompt variants from a target-blind brief, so the panel isn't quietly written to flatter you - 🧪
/prompt-set-qa— gate the prompt set on provenance, contamination, answer leakage, naturalness, and semantic duplicates, quarantining anything the evidence doesn't support - 📐
/ai-visibility-panel-design— select QA-approved prompts into a versioned tracking panel with partitions, surfaces, locales, repetitions, weights, and refresh rules, keeping aided and unaided denominators separate and gating on a human instead of inventing an “AI visibility score”
- Founders doing their own PR because the agency quote was insane
- PR agencies running more accounts than humans can babysit
- Marketers at small companies who need leverage, not headcount
- Anyone whose agent is already running their day-to-day — and should be better at it
Newsjack is a set of open skills — plain-Markdown instructions your agent reads — plus a small open-source CLI. Most skills run anywhere your agent runs. A few reach for a live news index, journalist enrichment, media list research, or locally-saved monitoring state — those work best in a local agent.
| Skill | Claude.ai | ChatGPT | ChatGPT Work | Cowork | Claude Code | Codex | Hermes | OpenClaw | Medialyst |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strategize | |||||||||
| pr-strategist | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| pr-calendar | 🔧 | 🔧 | 🔧 | 🔧 | 🔧 | 🔧 | 🔧 | ✅ | |
| newsworthiness-check | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| AI visibility | |||||||||
| ai-visibility-writing | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| build-ai-visibility-panel | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| icp-evidence-analysis | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| buyer-job-intent-analysis | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| prompt-proximity-architecture | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| realistic-prompt-generation | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| prompt-set-qa | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| ai-visibility-panel-design | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Act | |||||||||
| angle-generator | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| headline-generator | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| meanest-editor | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| crisis-holding | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| reactive-comment | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| fact-check | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| journalist-fit-check | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| same-outlet-ranker | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| voice-extractor | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ||
| find-journalists | 🔧 | 🔧 | 🔧 | 🔧 | 🔧 | 🔧 | 🔧 | ✅ | |
| press-clip | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | 🔜 |
| Detect | |||||||||
| news-search | ✅ | 🔧 | 🔧 | 🔧 | 🔧 | 🔧 | 🔧 | ✅ | |
| story-origin-check | 🔧 | 🔧 | 🔧 | 🔧 | 🔧 | 🔧 | 🔧 | ✅ | |
| relevance-coarse-filter | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| newsjack-triage | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| newsjack-detector | 🔧 | 🔧 | 🔧 | 🔧 | 🔜 | ||||
| newsjack-monitor-setup | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | 🔜 |
| coverage-tracker | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | 🔜 | ||||
| coverage-tracker-setup | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | 🔜 |
Legend:
- ✅ Runs out of the box — no setup; works anywhere your agent does.
- 🔧 May need an external connection — requires or does its best work with an external data source connected (e.g. the X API or the Medialyst API).
⚠️ Limited Mode — runs in a chat app, but as a best-effort, one-shot pass with nothing saved between sessions: no stored voice fingerprint, no scheduled monitoring, no repeat-suppression. Connect a local agent for the saved, scheduled version.- 🔜 Coming soon — not available here yet.
- ❌ Not supported here — needs a local agent. The two setup skills (
newsjack-monitor-setup,coverage-tracker-setup) only save a profile or config and schedule it;press-clipdrives a real Chrome/Edge browser via Playwright to render and clip the live page, which chat apps can't do.
pr-calendar is setup-required but portable: it works anywhere the agent can use the newsjack CLI or a connected Medialyst MCP/connector. The calendar endpoint is free; login is required only to prevent abuse. Consumer ChatGPT is the exception for now because of the same skill-loading limitation called out above.
Set up your agent:
- Local agents — Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, OpenClaw
- Claude.ai & Cowork — Anthropic plugin + Medialyst connector
- ChatGPT — consumer accounts, no Skills
- ChatGPT Work — Skills beta
Technical? One line on macOS / Linux (review install.sh first if you like):
curl -fsSL newsjack.sh | bashNot technical? 📋 Copy this prompt to any AI:
help me setup https://newsjack.sh
It reads the guide and handles the rest — npm fallback, Windows, credentials — on any platform.
Prefer a video? Watch the Newsjack installation walkthrough.
Install the Newsjack plugin:
- Open Customize.
- Go to Personal plugins.
- Click Create plugin.
- Choose Add marketplace.
- Choose Add from a repository.
- In the repository URL field, enter
elvisun/newsjackand confirm. - Open the new
elvisun/newsjackmarketplace, find thenewsjack@newsjackplugin, and click Install. - (Optional) Unlock the 🔧 skills by connecting a Medialyst account so your agent can access live news search, PR calendar lookup, journalist enrichment, and approval-gated media list research. In local agent harnesses, run
newsjack loginand approve the printed Medialyst link. If you don't have an account you can create a free one on the Medialyst signup page. - (Optional) Back in Claude, find the Medialyst connector under the installed Newsjack plugin page, click Connect on the Medialyst connector and authorize it over OAuth.
For project setup in a local Claude Code plugin install, start with newsjack auth status, then run newsjack login if it says project tools are not enabled before asking the agent to create or open a Medialyst project, add project memory, or upload project files.
Note: A community marketplace plugin, newsjack@claude-community, is pending review
and will be added soon.
The two always-on monitors run here in
ChatGPT runs Newsjack only in a degraded
ChatGPT Work has the Skills beta, so Newsjack runs there at the same level as
Cowork: everything except the two setup skills and press-clip, which need a
local agent.
~/.newsjack/
├── bin/newsjack # CLI
└── newsjack/ # managed bundle
skills installed to your detected runtime(s):
newsworthiness-check score whether your news clears the bar
headline-generator headlines and subject lines from raw story facts
find-journalists build small, fit-checked journalist lists
...and more
The npm package bundles the same CLI and skills, with the newsjack command installed on PATH.
Curl-installed Newsjack auto-updates from the latest GitHub Release before each run. Set NEWSJACK_AUTO_UPDATE=0 to disable.
You can also install the CLI by itself using npm:
npm i -g newsjack@latest
