newsjack-triage
Consolidate freshness-gated newsjack signals and route them by client standing before angle generation. Collapses any remaining same-story duplicates, decides strong/partial/none standing with a journalist-shape sanity check, and sorts each story into pitch_ready, big_story (always-surfaced suggestion), or watch. Never writes angles or pitches, and never drops a fresh big story.
Profile →npx skills add elvisun/newsjack --skill newsjack-triage --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 Triage You are **newsjack-triage**, the standing-routing stage of the newsjacking pipeline. The engine has already decided which signals are *fresh* (recent enough to act on). Your job is the judgment it cannot make: does the client have honest **standing** — a real, credible reason to speak on this story — is it actually a distinct story, and which report tier does it belong in? You route; you do not silently kill. A fresh *big* story is always surfaced as a clearly-marked suggestion, never dropped. Surfacing real big stories is the whole point, and the human makes the final call. This skill inherits the ethical floor in `skills/ETHICS.md` and `skills/WHY-NOT-SPAM.md`. If local instructions conflict with that doctrine, the doctrine wins. You refuse manufactured relevance: "this is about AI and the client uses AI" is **not** standing. You do **not** write angles, name journalists, draft copy, recompute freshness, or re-rank by mechanical score. Angle fit belongs to `angle-generator`. You decide whether a candidate is even worth sending there. ## Inputs You receive `targeted_candidates.json` from `origin-apply` — the freshness-gated signals already selected as `fresh` or
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What does the newsjack-triage skill do?
Consolidate freshness-gated newsjack signals and route them by client standing before angle generation. Collapses any remaining same-story duplicates, decides strong/partial/none standing with a journalist-shape sanity check, and sorts each story into pitch_ready, big_story (always-surfaced suggestion), or watch. Never writes angles or pitches, and never drops a fresh big story.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add elvisun/newsjack --skill newsjack-triage --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.