{"slug": "turn-claude-into-a-pr-associate-that-never-sleeps-installing-newsjack-s-18-open", "title": "Turn Claude Into a PR Associate That Never Sleeps: Installing Newsjack's 18 Open-Source Skills", "summary": "Newsjack released 18 open-source PR skills that can be installed into Claude, turning the AI into a PR associate that monitors news overnight and produces pitch-ready briefs. The skills include a journalist database with verified email addresses, angle generation, and headline creation, with a Claude Code agent that runs daily at 8 a.m. The project is fully open-source at newsjack.sh, and the connector uses Medialyst for journalist enrichment.", "body_md": "Newsjack is 18 open-source PR skills you install into Claude once. By the end of this post you'll have them running in chat, a journalist list with verified email addresses, and a Claude Code agent that checks the news overnight and leaves a pitch-ready brief every morning at 8 a.m. Everything is public at [newsjack.sh](https://newsjack.sh) — skills, source code, updates.\n\nThis is the written version of my 27-minute install video; the [canonical walkthrough](https://medialyst.ai/blog/newsjack-install-walkthrough) has the embed and chapter timestamps if you'd rather watch.\n\nTwo options.\n\n**Option A: paste one prompt.** Scroll down on [newsjack.sh](https://newsjack.sh) to the install instructions, copy the install prompt, paste it into any AI chat, and send. The agent walks itself through setup.\n\n**Option B: Claude's Customize tab.**\n\nVerify the install by typing a forward slash in any new chat:\n\n```\n/\n```\n\nThe slash menu lists every skill available to you, including everything Newsjack just brought in.\n\nA good starting sequence is strategy → angles → headlines.\n\n**/pr-strategist** takes a URL or a plain paragraph:\n\n```\n/pr-strategist\nI'm an AI engineer. How can I do PR for myself?\n```\n\nIt researches and comes back with your advantages and suggested positionings. While a skill loads, click it to read exactly what it's asking the model to do — every skill is a file in the open-source repo, and installing the plugin gives you an exact copy of what's online. No black boxes.\n\n**/angle-generator** takes a news story, searches the web, and brainstorms ways in.\n\n**/headline-generator** is worth running before you write anything — generate headlines first, then work backwards toward the story. One-line prompts get passable output; give it context and the headlines get meaningfully better.\n\nRun `/find-journalists`\n\nand you reach the step where Claude or ChatGPT normally breaks: models have no verified journalist contact data, and they can't look up someone's past articles or understand their beat. So they do what models do with missing data — hallucinate email addresses, or confidently return a journalist who isn't current.\n\nThe fix is a data source, not a better prompt. The connector is bundled in the plugin: back in **Customize**, under Newsjack, click **Connect**. It links a [Medialyst](https://medialyst.ai) project — full disclosure, that's my product; it's what gives the agent journalist enrichment, contact info, and news search.\n\n**Gotcha from the video:** after connecting, refresh the page and start a new chat. Paste in your previous chat history and `/find-journalists`\n\npicks up exactly where you left off.\n\nThe result is a table of journalists. Scroll right for the column that matters: actual, verified email addresses. Then iterate conversationally:\n\n```\nfind me 10 more journalists who cover model releases like GPT or Opus\n```\n\nWebsite chat can't run long enough to watch the news while you sleep. Your runtime options:\n\n| Runtime | Notes |\n|---|---|\n| Claude Code | included in the $20 plan most people already pay for |\n| Codex | OpenAI's equivalent |\n| Hermes Agent | open source, free to install |\n| OpenCloud | open source, runs on your machine |\n\nThis walkthrough uses Claude Code since most people already have it.\n\nDownload the Claude desktop app. Top left has two modes: **chat** (what we've been doing, in a different window) and **code** — the flagship mode, running on your local machine and considerably more powerful. Installing Newsjack here is one sentence:\n\n```\ninstall this for me\n```\n\nThen ask for the monitor:\n\n```\nset up daily monitoring for me\n```\n\nAdd context: who you are, what stories you're looking for, when to run (mine: 8:00 a.m. daily). You don't have to front-load everything — it asks when it needs something.\n\nTwo settings that matter before you kick it off:\n\nIt does the setup, then runs a live test against the day's news. Mine ran almost nine minutes — and that's the point. Claude Code is built for long runs (I've had it going for hours, even days), which is also what unlocks fan-out workflows like brainstorming ten ideas and sending them to separate agents to evaluate from different angles. Chat can't do that.\n\nWhen the test finishes, it asks where the monitor should live — a Claude Code routine is what I'd suggest.\n\n```\nshow me the report\n```\n\nThree tiers, waiting every morning at 8:\n\nIt scales per client — one monitor each — and it'll format a brief into a PDF if you ask. Every skill works identically in both places: type `/`\n\nin Claude Code and call the same angle generator, headline generator, or find-journalists you used in chat.\n\nFull walkthrough with the video and all 14 chapter timestamps: [medialyst.ai/blog/newsjack-install-walkthrough](https://medialyst.ai/blog/newsjack-install-walkthrough)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/turn-claude-into-a-pr-associate-that-never-sleeps-installing-newsjack-s-18-open", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/elvissun/turn-claude-into-a-pr-associate-that-never-sleeps-installing-newsjacks-18-open-source-skills-281i", "published_at": "2026-07-10 13:41:29+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-10 14:15:41.714712+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "developer-tools", "large-language-models", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Newsjack", "Claude", "Medialyst", "Claude Code", "Codex", "Hermes Agent", "OpenCloud"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/turn-claude-into-a-pr-associate-that-never-sleeps-installing-newsjack-s-18-open", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/turn-claude-into-a-pr-associate-that-never-sleeps-installing-newsjack-s-18-open.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/turn-claude-into-a-pr-associate-that-never-sleeps-installing-newsjack-s-18-open.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/turn-claude-into-a-pr-associate-that-never-sleeps-installing-newsjack-s-18-open.jsonld"}}