claude-skills-journalism

claude-md-updater

Use this skill when the user asks to update CLAUDE.md, save a lesson, or persist something from the current session: phrases like "update claude.md", "what should we remember", "save this lesson", or "add to context". Scans the conversation for hard-won lessons, new file paths, infrastructure changes, and new workflows, then proposes scoped edits to the project's CLAUDE.md for approval before writing.

electron-dev

Electron desktop application development with React, TypeScript, and Vite. Use when building desktop apps, implementing IPC communication, managing windows/tray, handling PTY terminals, integrating WebRTC/audio, or packaging with electron-builder. Covers patterns from AudioBash, Yap, and Pisscord projects.

mobile-debugging

Remote JavaScript console access and debugging on mobile devices. Use when debugging web pages on phones/tablets, accessing console errors without desktop DevTools, testing responsive designs on real devices, or diagnosing mobile-specific issues. Covers locally hosted Eruda and vConsole, Chrome/Safari remote debugging, and cloud testing platforms.

one-way-door

Use this skill when creating new files that represent architectural decisions — data models, infrastructure configs, auth boundaries, API contracts, CI/CD pipelines, or event systems. Flags irreversible decisions and forces a discussion about trade-offs before committing.

python-pipeline

Python data processing pipelines with modular architecture. Use when building content processing workflows, implementing dispatcher patterns, integrating Google Sheets/Drive APIs, or creating batch processing systems. Covers patterns from rosen-scraper, image-analyzer, and social-scraper projects.

Testing & QA Solid

test-first-bugs

This skill should be used when the user reports a bug, describes unexpected behavior, says something is "broken", "not working", "failing", mentions an "error", "issue", or "problem" in code, or asks to "fix" something. Enforces test-driven bug fixing workflow.

vibe-coding

Methodology for effective AI-assisted software development. Use when helping users build software with AI coding assistants, debugging AI-generated code, planning features for AI implementation, managing version control in AI workflows, or when users mention "vibe coding," Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Aider, Continue, Cline, Codex, Windsurf, or similar AI coding tools. Provides strategies for planning, testing, debugging, and iterating on code written with LLM assistance.

web-scraping

Authorized web content extraction with trust-boundary controls, scraping cascades, poison-pill detection, browser rendering, observed API analysis, and social-media archiving. Use when extracting public content, diagnosing access failures, implementing respectful scrapers, or processing social-media sources with requests, trafilatura, Playwright, yt-dlp, or instaloader.

web-ui-best-practices

Signs of taste in web UI. Use when building or reviewing any user-facing web interface — dashboards, SaaS apps, marketing sites, internal tools. Covers interaction speed, navigation depth, visual restraint, copy quality, and the small details that separate polished products from rough ones.

zero-build-frontend

Zero-build frontend development with locally vendored React, Tailwind CSS, and vanilla JavaScript. Use when building static web apps without a deployment build step, creating Leaflet maps, integrating Google Sheets as a database, or developing browser extensions. Covers lockfile-verified browser dependencies and patterns from rosen-frontend, NJCIC map, and PocketLink projects.

ai-writing-detox

Eliminate AI-generated writing patterns that erode reader trust. Activate when writing articles, documentation, press releases, or any content where AI patterns would undermine credibility. For journalists using AI assistance who need human-sounding output.

crisis-communications

Crisis communication and rapid response workflows for journalists and communications professionals. Use when covering breaking news events, managing organizational communications during crises, coordinating rapid fact-checking efforts, or developing crisis response plans. Essential for newsrooms, PR teams, and anyone who needs to communicate accurately under time pressure.

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data-journalism

Data journalism workflows for analysis, visualization, and storytelling. Use when analyzing datasets, creating charts and maps, cleaning messy data, calculating statistics or building data-driven stories. Essential for reporters, newsrooms and researchers working with quantitative information.

editorial-workflow

Manage editorial workflows for newsrooms and publications. Use when tracking story assignments, managing deadlines, coordinating editorial calendars, or establishing handoff protocols between reporters and editors. Includes templates for assignment tracking, editorial calendars, and workflow documentation.

fact-check-workflow

Structured workflow for fact-checking claims in journalism. Use when verifying statements for publication, rating claims for fact-check articles, or building pre-publication verification processes. Includes claim extraction, evidence gathering, rating scales, and correction protocols.

foia-requests

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and public records request workflows. Use when drafting records requests, tracking submissions, understanding exemptions, appealing denials, or managing large document productions. Essential for investigative journalists, researchers, and transparency advocates.

interview-prep

Prepare for journalism interviews with research checklists, question frameworks, and attribution guidelines. Use when preparing to interview sources, planning follow-up questions, or managing interview logistics. Covers consent, recording laws, and professional protocols.

interview-transcription

Transcription workflows, recording management, and quote extraction for journalists. Use when processing audio/video recordings, generating transcripts with timestamps, extracting quotes for fact-checking, or building source-and-recording databases. For interview question design and pre-interview preparation, see the interview-prep skill.

newsletter-publishing

Email newsletter workflows for journalists and researchers. Use when creating, managing, or optimizing email newsletters, building subscriber lists, designing email templates, analyzing engagement metrics, or planning newsletter content calendars. For independent journalists, academic communicators, and media organizations building direct audience relationships.

newsroom-style

Enforce AP Style and newsroom conventions for journalism writing. Use when writing news articles, editing drafts, creating headlines, or converting notes into publishable copy. Ensures professional standards for attribution, numbers, dates, and formatting.

photo-metadata

Use when preparing photos or images for a news wire, publication, photo CMS, or archive — embedding caption, byline, credit, alt text, keywords, copyright or Creative Commons license, AI/synthetic source labeling, and location into a file's IPTC, EXIF, and XMP metadata, batch-tagging a folder of press photos with exiftool, or verifying the C2PA Content Credentials on an inbound image.

DevOps & Infrastructure Solid

social-media-intelligence

Social media monitoring, narrative tracking, and open-source intelligence for journalists. Use when tracking viral content spread, analyzing coordinated campaigns, monitoring breaking news on social platforms, investigating accounts for authenticity, or detecting misinformation patterns. Essential for reporters covering online narratives and digital investigations.

source-verification

Journalism source verification and fact-checking workflows. Use when verifying claims, checking source credibility, investigating social media accounts, reverse image searching, detecting AI-generated content, or building verification trails. For reporters, fact-checkers, and researchers working with unverified information.

story-pitch

Craft effective story pitches for different publication types and formats. Use when pitching to editors, preparing query letters, or developing story angles. Includes templates for daily news, features, investigations, op-eds, and freelance queries.

okf-wiki

Scaffold a new Open Knowledge Format (OKF) knowledge base and populate it from existing material: a tree of small markdown concept files with YAML frontmatter, a spec, a validator, and session-start hooks that orient Claude on the knowledge base before it works. Use when the user wants to start an OKF atlas/wiki/knowledge base, build one from existing docs, plans, notes, or a repo, structure docs as one-concept-per-file with provenance, or initialize OKF in a repo (optionally into its GitHub wiki).

pdf-design

Design and edit professional PDF reports and proposals with local HTML/PDF generation, iterative previews, print layouts, brand systems, and opt-in uploads. Use when creating, revising, previewing, exporting, or securely uploading a report, proposal, budget summary, or other designed PDF.

document-design

This skill should be used when the user asks to "create a proposal", "design a report", "make a one-pager", "build a PDF", "create a newsletter", "design slides", "make event materials", "design a flyer", or needs help with print-ready HTML documents. Provides brand configuration, CSS patterns for print layout, and document design best practices.

project-memory

Generate CLAUDE.md project memory files that transfer institutional knowledge, not obvious information. Use when setting up new journalism projects, onboarding collaborators, or documenting project-specific quirks. Includes templates for editorial tools, event websites, publications, research projects, content pipelines, and digital archives.

project-retrospective

Generate LESSONS.md retrospective files that capture institutional knowledge, especially failures. Use when closing out journalism projects, investigations, events, or publications. Includes templates for research projects, event post-mortems, editorial tools, and publications.

template-selector

Choose the correct CLAUDE.md or LESSONS.md template for journalism projects. Use when starting a new project, setting up documentation, or unsure which template category fits best. Provides decision trees and selection guidance for 6 journalism-focused template types.

academic-writing

Academic writing, research methodology, and scholarly communication workflows. Use when writing papers, literature reviews, grant proposals, conducting research, managing citations, preparing for peer review, choosing OA routes under Plan S / 2026 OSTP Nelson Memo, posting preprints, working with persistent identifiers (ORCID, DOI, ROR), assigning CRediT contributor roles, preregistering analyses on OSF / AsPredicted, or disclosing LLM use to journals and funders. Essential for researchers, graduate students, and academics across disciplines.

content-access

Legal methods for accessing paywalled and geo-blocked content. Use when researching behind paywalls, accessing academic papers, bypassing geographic restrictions, or finding open access alternatives. Covers Unpaywall, library databases, VPNs, and ethical access strategies for journalists and researchers.

digital-archive

Digital archiving workflows with AI enrichment, entity extraction, and knowledge graph construction. Use when building content archives, implementing AI-powered categorization, extracting entities and relationships, or integrating multiple data sources. Covers patterns from the Jay Rosen Digital Archive project.

API & Backend Solid

free-apis-catalog

Use when suggesting APIs for a project, looking for free data sources, building weekend projects that need external data, or when the user needs weather, news, finance, sports, ML, or entertainment data without paid subscriptions

DevOps & Infrastructure Solid

page-monitoring

Web page monitoring, change detection, and availability tracking. Use when tracking content changes, detecting when pages go down, monitoring for updates, preserving content before deletion, or generating feeds for pages without RSS. Covers Visualping, ChangeTower, Distill.io, and self-hosted monitoring solutions.

web-archiving

Web page archiving and retrieval from cached/deleted sources. Use when accessing unavailable pages, preserving web content, creating legal evidence archives, or building redundant archival workflows. Covers Wayback Machine, Archive.today, ArchiveBox, and evidence preservation tools.

API & Backend Solid

api-hardening

API security hardening patterns. Use when implementing rate limiting, input validation, CORS configuration, API key management, request throttling, or protecting endpoints from abuse. Covers defense-in-depth strategies for REST APIs with practical implementations for Express, FastAPI, and serverless, oriented around the OWASP API Security Top 10:2023.

secure-auth

Secure authentication implementation patterns. Use when implementing user login, registration, password reset, session management, JWT authentication, OAuth, MFA, or passkeys. Provides production-ready patterns aligned with NIST SP 800-63B-4, OWASP 2026 cheat sheets, OAuth 2.1, and WebAuthn L3, with breach-driven lessons.

security-checklist

Pre-deployment security audit for web applications, organized by OWASP Top 10:2025 categories. Use when reviewing code before shipping, auditing an existing application, or when users mention "security review," "ready to deploy," "going to production," or express concern about vulnerabilities. Covers access control, supply chain, cryptography, injection, auth, integrity, logging, and exception handling.

brainstorming

You MUST use this before any creative work - creating features, building components, adding functionality, or modifying behavior. Explores user intent, requirements and design before implementation.

dispatching-parallel-agents

Use when facing 2+ independent tasks that can be worked on without shared state or sequential dependencies

executing-plans

Use when you have a written implementation plan to execute in a separate session with review checkpoints

finishing-a-development-branch

Use when implementation is complete, all tests pass, and you need to decide how to integrate the work - guides completion of development work by presenting structured options for merge, PR, or cleanup

receiving-code-review

Use when receiving code review feedback, before implementing suggestions, especially if feedback seems unclear or technically questionable - requires technical rigor and verification, not performative agreement or blind implementation

requesting-code-review

Use when completing tasks, implementing major features, or before merging to verify work meets requirements

subagent-driven-development

Use when executing implementation plans with independent tasks in the current session

systematic-debugging

Use when encountering any bug, test failure, or unexpected behavior, before proposing fixes

Testing & QA Solid

test-driven-development

Use when implementing any feature or bugfix, before writing implementation code