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User400+ free AI skills and 9 agents for media professionals — journalists, producers, podcasters, YouTubers. Quality-tested. Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, any MCP client, and more.
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Indexed Skills (54)
project-memory
Generate a project-specific context file from a brief so an AI assistant remembers your editorial constraints, voice, audience, and quality bar across sessions.
project-retrospective
Generate a LESSONS.md from a finished project: what worked, what didn't, what to reuse, what to retire — formatted for next-project carry-over.
template-selector
Recommend the right skill bundle, agent, and workflow sequence for a new project — so media professionals can start producing instead of browsing a 394-skill library.
statistics-explainer
Rewrites a complex statistic — including percentage changes, relative risk, confidence intervals, medians, and index numbers — in plain language that a general audience can understand without sacrificing factual accuracy.
cms-fields-writer
Generates the complete set of metadata fields — tags, categories, keywords, slug, and summary — needed to publish a piece of content in a content management system, ready to copy and paste into each field.
cms-metadata-tagger
Takes a finished piece of content and produces a complete, archive-ready metadata record — including descriptive tags, subject classifications, rights notes, and an archival summary — for entry into a content management or digital archive system.
gdpr-note-writer
Drafts a GDPR compliance note for a specific piece of journalistic content or data collection activity — documenting the lawful basis for processing personal data, what data is held, how long it is retained, and who has access.
image-rights-checker
Reviews the details of a specific image and flags potential rights clearance issues before publication, identifying which permissions you likely need and which questions to bring to your legal or picture desk.
legal-risk-checker
Reviews a story brief, draft article, or broadcast script and flags potential legal risks — including defamation, privacy, contempt of court, and data protection — so you know what to check before publication.
music-rights-request-writer
Drafts a formal, professional request letter to a music rights holder asking for permission to use a track in a specific media production under defined terms.
source-bibliography-writer
Produces a correctly formatted bibliography or source list from details you provide, supporting AP, Chicago (Notes-Bibliography), and APA citation styles.
audience-feedback-summariser
Reads a batch of raw audience comments, emails, or survey responses about a piece of content and produces a structured summary of what readers valued, what confused them, and what they want more of.
headline-ab-variants-writer
Takes one original headline and produces five distinct tested variants, each using a different proven approach to drive clicks, shares, or engagement — ready to load directly into a CMS or A/B testing tool.
platform-distribution-advisor
Recommends the best platforms for distributing a finished piece of content, with a ranked list and a brief rationale for each recommendation based on the content type, format, length, and intended audience.
publication-timing-advisor
Recommends the best day and time to publish a piece of content based on the content type, platform, and intended audience — without requiring access to live analytics data.
reader-comments-analyzer
Reads a batch of reader comments and produces a structured summary of recurring themes, unanswered questions, emotional tone, and actionable editorial signals — so editors and journalists can understand what their audience actually took from a piece.
social-post-ab-variants-writer
Generates two or three distinct social media post variants for the same article or piece of content, each testing a different angle, hook, or emotional register, so you can run a controlled comparison and learn what resonates with your audience.
target-audience-definer
Produces a clear, specific description of who a piece of content is written for — including what that audience already knows, what they care about, and what they will do with the information — so editors, writers, and distributors can make better decisions at every stage of production.
basic-statistics-calculator
Performs and explains basic statistical calculations — percentages, percentage changes, per-capita rates, averages, medians, and ratios — from data you provide, showing the working so you can verify it and use the figures confidently in a story.
data-outlier-finder
Identifies unusual values, unexpected patterns, and potential stories hidden in a dataset by systematically checking for statistical outliers and contextual anomalies.
data-story-finder
Identifies the newsworthy story or stories hidden inside a dataset before any writing begins — surfacing angles, outliers, trends, and comparisons that are genuinely publishable.
dataset-summary-brief
Produces a structured summary of what a dataset contains, what it covers, what its limitations are, and what story angles it could plausibly support — written as a briefing document for a journalist or editor.
polling-analysis-writer
Analyses poll or survey results and writes a clear, accurate, publication-ready explanation for a general audience — covering the headline finding, key subgroup breakdowns, methodology caveats, and what the numbers do and do not mean.
data-cleaning-brief
Writes clear, step-by-step instructions for cleaning a messy or inconsistent dataset — specifying exactly what needs to be standardised, corrected, or removed to make the data ready for analysis and publication.
foi-data-request
Drafts a Freedom of Information request specifically targeting datasets, databases, or digital records — written to maximise the chance of receiving complete, machine-readable data rather than summary PDFs or partial tables.
pdf-table-extractor-brief
Produces a structured extraction plan and clean spreadsheet template for pulling tabular data out of a PDF document — identifying the table structure, defining column headers, flagging extraction pitfalls, and providing a ready-to-use template that ensures the data lands in a consistent, analysable format.
scraper-brief
Writes a clear, technical brief describing exactly what data needs to be collected from a website or set of web pages, how it should be structured, and what edge cases and legal/ethical considerations apply — for handoff to a developer or data team.
data-corrections-writer
Writes a precise, publication-standard corrections notice for a data error published in an article — stating clearly what was wrong, what the correct figure is, and how the error affected the reported story.
data-footnote-writer
Writes precise, publication-standard footnotes for data claims in a finished article — citing sources accurately, explaining how figures were derived where necessary, and flagging any caveats that qualified readers need to know.
methodology-explainer
Writes a plain-language explanation of a data journalism methodology — what data was used, where it came from, how it was processed, and what the analysis found — suitable for publication alongside a data story.
chart-description-writer
Writes a precise, accessible text description of a data visualization — covering the chart type, what it shows, the key finding, and the data range — suitable for publication as a caption, alt-text, or standfirst alongside the chart.
chart-labels-writer
Writes clear, precise axis labels, legends, annotations, and source lines for a chart — the text layer that makes a graphic publishable.
chart-type-advisor
Recommends the most effective chart type for your data and editorial goal, explains why it works, and warns you about common misrepresentations.
data-table-formatter
Formats raw or messy data into a clean, publication-ready table with appropriate headers, sorted rows, consistent number formatting, and a source note — ready to drop into an article, report, or web page.
infographic-brief
Writes a detailed, production-ready brief for an infographic designer from raw data or findings — specifying the story, the key figures, the recommended visual approach, the hierarchy of information, and the format requirements.
ai-writing-detox
Rewrites AI-flavoured copy into a publishable register by stripping the language tells of an LLM draft — buzzwords, throat-clearing, false-inclusive openers, and the "not just X — Y" rhetorical tic — and supplies the canonical banned-list that runtime hooks read to flag drafts before they ship.
copy-editor
Copy-edit a piece of text for clarity, consistency, style, and readability — going beyond proofreading to tighten prose, improve sentence structure, and enforce consistent style throughout, while flagging substantive issues for the author's attention.
libel-risk-checker
Reviews a draft for statements that carry a credible risk of defamation, producing a flagged checklist of red-flag passages with a plain-language explanation of why each is potentially problematic.
multi-author-harmoniser
Takes a draft written by two or more contributors and rewrites it as a single, consistent voice — smoothing over clashing tones, register shifts, and stylistic inconsistencies while preserving every author's factual content and reported material.
proofreader
Proofread a piece of text and return it with all spelling, grammar, punctuation, and typographical errors corrected — preserving the author's voice and intentional style choices throughout.
redundancy-checker
Scans a draft for repeated ideas, redundant phrases, and unnecessary word clusters, then delivers a flagged report and a tightened version of the text without altering meaning or voice.
script-style-guide-checker
Checks a script against a specified style guide and returns a prioritised list of violations with corrections.
structure-flow-checker
Analyses a draft for logical sequence, narrative coherence, and transitions, then reports exactly where the structure breaks down and why.
structure-improvement-advisor
Takes a draft with identified or suspected structural weaknesses and produces a concrete restructuring plan — including a recommended section order and the reasoning behind each change.
terminology-consistency-checker
Scans a text for inconsistent use of key terms, names, titles, and technical vocabulary, then produces a flagged report with recommended corrections.
tone-consistency-checker
Identifies passages where the tone or register shifts unexpectedly within a piece of writing, and explains how to bring the text back to a consistent voice.
translation-accuracy-reviewer
Compares a source text against its translation, flags potential inaccuracies and mistranslations, and explains each issue so an editor can make an informed correction.
unattributed-claims-checker
Reads a draft article or script and flags every assertion of fact that lacks a named source, adding an inline `[NEEDS SOURCE]` marker so editors can see exactly where attribution is missing.
version-diff-summariser
Takes two versions of the same text — a before and an after — and produces a plain-English summary of every meaningful change: what was added, cut, reworded, restructured, and why each change is likely to matter editorially.
color-palette-brief
Generates a detailed color palette brief with named colors, hex codes, rationale, and usage guidance for a media project's visual identity — show artwork, editorial imagery, website, or social media.
autopunk-media-skills
394 production-tested Claude skills for media professionals — TV, journalism, YouTube, podcasts, screenwriting, newsletters, PR, and more
docx
Use this skill whenever the user wants to create or edit .docx (Microsoft Word) files. This includes creating new Word documents from scratch, editing existing Word documents, extracting content from Word files, converting between formats, adding images or other content to Word files, or manipulating Word file structure. If the user mentions .docx, Word, DOCX, or wants to produce a Word document, use this skill.
Use this skill whenever the user wants to do anything with PDF files. This includes reading or extracting text/tables from PDFs, combining or merging multiple PDFs into one, splitting PDFs apart, rotating pages, adding watermarks, creating new PDFs, filling PDF forms, encrypting/decrypting PDFs, extracting images, and OCR on scanned PDFs to make them searchable. If the user mentions a .pdf file or asks to produce one, use this skill.
skill-creator
Create new skills, modify and improve existing skills, and measure skill performance. Use when users want to create a skill from scratch, edit, or optimize an existing skill, run evals to test a skill, benchmark skill performance with variance analysis, or optimize a skill's description for better triggering accuracy.
Bio shown is the top-scored skill's repo description as a fallback — real GitHub bios land in a future update.