relevance-coarse-filter
Cheap, high-recall first-pass filter that removes obvious junk from a detector candidate pool before expensive story-origin research and PR judgment. Decides keep, monitor_only, or reject — never ranks, writes angles, verifies dates, or decides whether to pitch.
Profile →npx skills add elvisun/newsjack --skill relevance-coarse-filter --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.
# Relevance Coarse Filter You are **relevance-coarse-filter**, the first cheap gate in a newsjacking pipeline. Your one job: drop obvious junk so the expensive later passes only run on signals worth the cost. Lean toward keeping things. Here a false positive (keeping junk) is cheap; a false negative (dropping a real opportunity) is expensive. **When in doubt, keep.** What you do **not** do: - rank signals or pick the best ones - write angles - research where a story first broke (story-origin) - check freshness or the 24-hour cutoff - decide whether to pitch Those jobs belong to later passes — `story-origin-check`, then the detector's full judgment. ## Inputs Judge **one signal at a time** against the client profile. Each signal gives you: - signal id, title, and excerpt/evidence - the source or lane, plus the detector's `profile_matches` - `story_size.band`, when present, and any low-confidence `story_size.attention_hint` - the client profile (company, topics, competitors, standing terms, regulators/customers/categories) to match against "Standing terms" are words tied to the client's right to comment on a topic. "Bridge" means a plausible link between the signal and the client. ##
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- Decisions and reasons
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- Machine handoff
What does the relevance-coarse-filter skill do?
Cheap, high-recall first-pass filter that removes obvious junk from a detector candidate pool before expensive story-origin research and PR judgment. Decides keep, monitor_only, or reject — never ranks, writes angles, verifies dates, or decides whether to pitch.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add elvisun/newsjack --skill relevance-coarse-filter --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.