Newsjack

PR skills for AI agents that find news to react to, draft pitches and headlines, fact-check, and build media lists.

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Newsjack at a glance

Checked 18 Oct 2026

Newsjack is a set of Markdown skills plus a small CLI that give an AI agent PR tasks: spotting news you can comment on, angle and headline drafts, pitch critique, fact-checking, crisis holding statements, coverage tracking and AI-visibility prompt panels. It works in Claude Code, Codex, Hermes and OpenClaw, with reduced modes in Claude.ai, Cowork and ChatGPT. Live news search and journalist research use the Medialyst API (free account offered). MIT licence. It needs an AI agent and does not replace a paid product we list.

Cite this pageRepoQuarry. “Newsjack.” Checked 18 Oct 2026. https://repoquarry.dev/projects/newsjack

What it replaces

Nothing people pay for: it’s a free tool, listed because people search for it. Find similar projects in Agent skills and plugins.

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Runs on my machine? Yes in local agents; limited mode in chat apps Most skills run anywhere your agent runs. github.com · newsjack#readme ↗ 3d ago

Code licence MIT MIT License github.com · LICENSE ↗ 3d ago

Model weights licence No separate model weights github.com · newsjack#readme ↗ 3d ago

Commercial use Yes, MIT to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software github.com · LICENSE ↗ 3d ago

Paid services needed? Needs an AI agent; some skills need an external data source such as the Medialyst or X API requires or does its best work with an external data source connected (e.g. the X API or the Medialyst API) github.com · newsjack#readme ↗ 3d ago

Hardware Not documented Know the answer? 3d ago

Operating systems One-line installer for macOS and Linux; guide covers Windows via npm One line on macOS / Linux github.com · newsjack#readme ↗ 3d ago

Setup effort Easy, one-line installer or npm install curl -fsSL newsjack.sh | bash github.com · newsjack#readme ↗ 3d ago

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3 people committing in the last 12 months · 12 pull requests merged in 30 days · 6 issues opened, 0 closed in 30 days

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Building history

+76 stars since 18 Oct 2026. The 7-day comparison and the trend label start once there is a full week of daily counts.

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active 5 of the last 12 weeks

Down 88% on the 12 weeks before.

Busiest week: 56 commits. Focus or tap a bar for its week.

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