newsjack-detector
Monitor current news and reaction signals, then decide which are credible newsjacking opportunities for a client. Uses the local monitoring engine for evidence, but the skill owns PR judgment, brand safety, standing, decay, angle fit, and handoff.
Profile →npx skills add elvisun/newsjack --skill newsjack-detector --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Newsjack Detector Find timely public signals and decide whether a client has a credible, non-spammy reason to use them. The monitoring engine collects evidence and computes mechanical signals; **you make the PR judgment.** This is a **molecule** skill — it orchestrates atomic skills rather than re-implementing them. Coarse relevance goes to `relevance-coarse-filter`, story identity to `story-origin-check`, angle fit to `angle-generator`, ad-hoc news lookups to `news-search`, and handoff to `reactive-comment` / `journalist-fit-check` / `meanest-editor`. Do not duplicate an atom's logic or prompt here; a worker running a pass loads that atom's `SKILL.md` directly, so the atom stays the single source of truth. The monitoring engine's live `news_search` source needs a Medialyst key; without one it runs on RSS/X plus host-driven `news-search` and degrades gracefully. Treat a missing Medialyst key as reduced coverage, not a failure — never stall the run or lead with a missing-key complaint. ## Runtime Mode Newsjack Detector has two runtime modes: - **Full Mode:** Use this in Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, Hermes, or another capable agent harness with shell, filesystem, network, and loca
- Runtime Mode
- Required Workflow (follow in order)
- Engine vs Skill Boundary
- Client Brief
- Profile Setup File
- Limited Mode Scan
- Quick Run
- Canonical Pipeline
- Freshness Gate
- Handoff
- Completion Checklist
- Output Format
- Rubric
- Story Size
newsjack detector run --profile profile.json --save newsjack cluster --candidates relevant_candidates.json --drop-stale --window-hours 24 --output clustered_candidates.json newsjack origin-apply --candidates clustered_candidates.json --origins origin_findings.json --window-hours 24 --output targeted_candidates.json newsjack run-summary targeted_candidates.json --output summary.json
What does the newsjack-detector skill do?
Monitor current news and reaction signals, then decide which are credible newsjacking opportunities for a client. Uses the local monitoring engine for evidence, but the skill owns PR judgment, brand safety, standing, decay, angle fit, and handoff.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add elvisun/newsjack --skill newsjack-detector --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From elvisun/newsjack, a repository with 620 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.