Journalism agent skills

Project: Journalism skills maintenance

A collection of Agent Skills for journalists, researchers, academics, media professionals, and communications practitioners. The same repository serves Claude Code and Codex while keeping Claude-only commands, agents, and hooks clearly labeled.

Docs site: skills.amditis.tech, interactive skill browser, setup guides, and full documentation.

Guides

Setup and workflow guides, separate from the skills themselves:

Guide	Description
Autonomous and hands-on dev work	A first-person account of running dev work with Claude in two modes, autonomous sessions that pull tasks off GitHub issues, and hands-on multi-agent reviews at the keyboard, held to one quality bar, with copy-able prompts to adapt the approach to your own agent
Multi-agent workflows	Plain-language guide to running many AI agents on one job, fan-out, pipeline, and adversarial-verify patterns, with real examples from ICIJ, The Markup, Full Fact, and Elicit, plus honest cautions
Persistent sessions	Keep Claude Code sessions alive through disconnects using tmux, setup, key bindings, activity notifications, and scheduler coexistence

What are agent skills?

Skills are modular instruction sets that an AI coding agent loads when relevant to a task. Each skill contains domain knowledge, workflows, templates, and supporting files. Shared skills in this repository follow the Agent Skills specification; Claude and Codex provide their own installation and runtime layers around that shared content.

Repository control plane

skills-catalog.yaml lists every package and stable skill. It records each skill's package, path, lifecycle, and invocation mode. The defaults preserve the existing model-selected invocation behavior.

Each stable skill includes agents/openai.yaml for Codex display metadata. These files do not change invocation policy. Run npm run validate:catalog to check catalog coverage, package mappings, skill names, and metadata files.

See INFLUENCES.md and THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md for design credit and license notices.

Installation

Choose the section for your client. During the Codex pilot, use only one Codex installation path for a given skill or package.

Claude Code

Prerequisite: You need Claude Code installed. Run claude --version in your terminal to check.

Plugins (recommended)

Plugins give you slash commands you can run directly inside Claude Code. Run these two commands inside a Claude Code session:

/plugin marketplace add jamditis/claude-skills-journalism
/plugin install pdf-playground@claude-skills-journalism

Then restart Claude Code (close and reopen). See the PDF Playground README for detailed setup instructions and troubleshooting.

Available plugins: