Newsjack

Newsjack.sh

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 | bash

Are you an agent? Check out Getting started

Are you a human? 📋 Copy this prompt to any AI:

help me setup https://newsjack.sh

Jump to platform-specific setup below for per platform breakdown.

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What your agent can do once newsjack is installed

Three problems, separate lanes.

🛰️ Detect — surface what matters in your space

• 📡 Monitor your industry — find newsjacking opportunities: fresh stories you have the standing to jump on before the wave breaks (see a sample run)
• 🗞️ Track your coverage — Google Alerts-style keyword tracking with LLM filtering for real features
• 🔭 Track competitors — when they launch, raise, or stumble, you know
• 🔍 Verify the story is still fresh — who broke it, who owns it, what oxygen's left

🚀 Act — turn signal into output

• 🎯 Generate story angles — turn one update into hooks framed for different beats
• 🤝 Fit-check a journalist — will this reporter actually care, or are you spamming?
• 🎙️ Respond to source queries — triage inbound HARO-style requests, draft only the real fits
• 🥊 Roast your pitch — honest critique against the rubric editors actually use
• ✅ Fact-check before you send — extract claims, verify each, flag the shaky ones
• 🗣️ Keep drafts in your voice — fingerprint your real writing, kill the AI tells
• 📋 Build a fit-checked media list — targeted reporters, not scraped contact dumps

🧭 Strategize — figure out what your story even is

• 🗺️ Get a PR strategy — opinionated walkthrough if you're not PR-fluent yet: audience first, positioning second, news pegs third, drumbeat over big-bang
• 📊 Score newsworthiness — cold read on whether it clears the bar before you act

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Who this is for

• 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

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Install

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, or locally-saved monitoring state — those work best in a local agent.

What runs where

Skill	Claude.ai	ChatGPT	Cowork	Claude Code	Codex	Hermes	OpenClaw	Medialyst
Strategize
pr-strategist	✅	⚠️	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
newsworthiness-check	✅	⚠️	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Act
angle-generator	✅	⚠️	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
headline-generator	✅	⚠️	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
meanest-editor	✅	⚠️	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
crisis-holding	✅	⚠️	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
reactive-comment	✅	⚠️	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
fact-check	✅	⚠️	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
journalist-fit-check	✅	⚠️	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
voice-extractor	⚠️	⚠️	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
find-journalists	🔧	⚠️	🔧	🔧	🔧	🔧	🔧	✅
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 — works on its own, but 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 — the two setup skills (newsjack-monitor-setup, coverage-tracker-setup) only save a profile or config and schedule it, so they need a local agent.

Set up your agent: