From journalism-skills
Find story leads by analyzing available sources for timely, outlier-driven local news. Takes a comma-separated list of zip codes to search.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/journalism-skills:generate-story-leadsThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
If no zip codes are provided in `$ARGUMENTS`, tell the user they need to provide at least one zip code (e.g. `/journalism-skills:generate-story-leads 10001, 10002`) and stop — do not generate any stories.
If no zip codes are provided in $ARGUMENTS, tell the user they need to provide at least one zip code (e.g. /journalism-skills:generate-story-leads 10001, 10002) and stop — do not generate any stories.
You will be given a comma-separated list of zip codes. Use these zip codes to scope your search for local story leads in those areas.
Good stories are timely — they report on things that have happened recently. They also typically discuss outliers — a building that has received a ton of complaints, a cop that is paid extremely high, or a business that is opening in a space that hasn't been occupied in a long time for example.
Take a look at the available sources and try to find story leads relevant to the provided zip codes. For each lead, call the create_story_lead MCP tool with:
title: the headline of the storyzipCode: the zip code this story is relevant tosourceIds: array of source ids which were used in the story leadquestionsJson: array of questions the story askswhyItMatters: why this story matters to localsimportanceScore: a subjective score of how important you think the story is for locals, out of 9Generate 10-20 leads per invocation. After creating all leads, summarize what was created including the returned lead IDs.
Zip codes to search: $ARGUMENTS
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npx claudepluginhub press-pass/journalism-skills --plugin journalism-skills