Claude Skills Journalism plugin for Grok Build

Community Claude Code plugin, installs in GrokPluginSecurity

Claude Code skills for journalism, media, and academia - verification, FOIA, data journalism, academic writing, and more

How to install Claude Skills Journalism in Grok Build

1. Add this repo as a plugin marketplace in Grok Build (once per computer):

grok plugin marketplace add jamditis/claude-skills-journalism

2. Install the plugin:

grok plugin install autocontext@jamditis/claude-skills-journalism --trust
✓ Install-checked in Grok Buildchecked Oct 18, 2026

Review before you trust it. --trust lets this plugin's hooks, MCP servers and scripts run code on your computer. It's a community repo that neither xAI nor GrokStacks has reviewed, so read its code first.

This repo's marketplace has 13 plugins; we checked autocontext, dev-toolkit, journalism-core. Install another the same way: grok plugin install <name>@jamditis/claude-skills-journalism --trust (names under 'What it contains'). Then start a new Grok session, or press r in /plugins, to load it.

Inside Grok Build: type /plugins, open the Marketplace tab, press a and add jamditis/claude-skills-journalism, then select autocontext and press i.

Command format: Grok Build's plugin guide

What we checked: on Oct 18, 2026 it installed with grok 1.0.62 and Grok found 32 skills, 5 slash commands, 1 subagent. That's an install check only: we haven't run it in a live Grok session.

What it contains

Skills (32)

  • evolve — Evolve skill files by integrating validated lessons from real usage
  • init — Initialize .autocontext/ in the current project for knowledge persistence
  • review — Interactively review and curate accumulated project lessons
  • setup — First-run configuration for the autocontext plugin
  • status — Show knowledge stats for the current project
  • accessibility-compliance — Web accessibility patterns for news and academic sites. Use for WCAG audits, alt text, accessible data viz, and assistive tech.
  • claude-md-updater — Scans the session for lessons and workflows, then proposes scoped CLAUDE.md edits. Use for save this lesson or add to context.
  • context-engineering-fundamentals — Manages attention and evidence in long agent sessions. Use for lost instructions, dropped evidence, or large multi-agent contexts.
  • director — Directs the current request through configured lower-tier agents. Use only for explicit /director or /dev-toolkit:director invocation.
  • electron-dev — Electron desktop apps with React, TypeScript, and Vite. Use for IPC, window/tray, PTY terminals, WebRTC, and packaging.
  • mobile-debugging — Remote JavaScript console and debugging on mobile. Use for phone/tablet console errors, responsive testing, Eruda, and vConsole.
  • one-way-door — Flags irreversible decisions before commit. Use for data models, infra, auth boundaries, API contracts, event schemas, CI/CD.
  • python-pipeline — Python data pipelines with modular architecture. Use for content workflows, batch jobs, or Google Sheets/Drive integration.
  • vibe-coding — AI-assisted coding with Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Codex, Aider, or Windsurf. Use to build or debug generated code.
  • web-scraping — Authorized web scraping with fallback cascades and access-failure handling. Use for social media, yt-dlp, CAPTCHA or 403 blocks.
  • web-ui-best-practices — Signs of taste in web UI. Use when building or reviewing web interfaces, dashboards, SaaS apps, or internal tools.
  • zero-build-frontend — Zero-build frontend development for static apps, browser extensions, maps, and lightweight data-backed interfaces. Use when deployment must not require a build step.
  • ai-writing-detox — Eliminates AI-generated writing patterns that erode reader trust. Use when writing or editing articles, docs, or press releases.
  • brazil-records-requests — Public records requests under Brazil's Access to Information Law (LAI). Use for Fala.BR filings, e-SIC, and CGU/CMRI appeals.
  • crisis-communications — Crisis communication and rapid-response workflows. Use when covering breaking news or coordinating fast fact-checking on deadline.
  • data-journalism — Acquire, clean, analyze, verify, visualize, and explain data for journalism. Use for reproducible data reporting, statistical analysis, maps, or public methodology.
  • editorial-workflow — Manages newsroom editorial workflows. Use when tracking assignments, managing deadlines, or coordinating editorial calendars.
  • fact-check-workflow — Structured fact-checking workflow. Use when verifying claims for publication, rating claims, or setting pre-publication checks.
  • foia-requests — FOIA and public records workflows. Use when drafting requests, tracking submissions, checking exemptions, or appealing denials.
  • interview-prep — Interview preparation and recording-consent law. Use for research, question frameworks, one-party or all-party consent rules.
  • interview-transcription — Transcription, recording management, and quote extraction. Use when processing audio/video or generating timestamped transcripts.
  • newsletter-publishing — Email newsletter workflows. Use when creating newsletters, building subscriber lists, designing templates, or tracking engagement.
  • newsroom-style — Enforces AP Style and newsroom conventions. Use when writing news, editing drafts, creating headlines, or tightening copy.
  • photo-metadata — Embeds photo IPTC/EXIF/XMP metadata, caption, credit, alt text, license, AI-source label, GPS stripping, and C2PA credentials.
  • social-media-intelligence — Social media monitoring, narrative tracking, and OSINT. Use when tracking viral spread, coordinated campaigns, or account vetting.
  • source-verification — Verify sources, claims, images, video, documents, interviews, and synthetic media with SIFT and a durable evidence trail. Use before relying on uncertain material.
  • story-pitch — Crafts story pitches for different outlets. Use when pitching editors, writing query letters, or shaping feature or op-ed angles.

Subagents (1)

  • autocontext:autocontext-curator — Validates and structures lesson candidates before persisting to lessons.json

Plugins in this marketplace (13)

  • autocontext — Accumulates project knowledge across sessions and developers through structured lessons and hooks
  • dev-toolkit — Twelve development skills for newsroom and research dev teams: accessibility, context management, directed multi-agent execution, Electron, mobile debugging, Python pipelines, ethical scraping, no-build frontends, web UI craft, and CLAUDE.md maintenance.
  • journalism-core — Fifteen core journalism skills for reporting, verification, publishing, and digital investigations: AP-style writing, AI-slop detox, source verification, FOIA/OPRA and Brazilian LAI requests, fact-checking, interview prep and transcription, story pitches, editorial workflow, crisis comms, newsletter
  • okf-wiki — Scaffold an Open Knowledge Format (OKF) knowledge base from docs, plans, notes, or a repo: one-concept-per-file Markdown with YAML frontmatter, navigation, and validation. Built for newsroom memory, research atlases, decision logs, and infrastructure maps.
  • pdf-design — PDF report and proposal design system with interactive editing
  • pdf-playground — Interactive playground for creating and testing PDF reports and proposals
  • project-templates-toolkit — Three skills for starting and closing out journalism projects: a CLAUDE.md project-memory writer, a LESSONS.md retrospective writer, and a template-selector decision tree for editorial tools, events, publications, research, pipelines, and archives.
  • research-toolkit — Six skills for research, source preservation, and academic workflows: academic writing, legal paywall bypass (Unpaywall, library databases), web archiving (Wayback, Archive.today, ArchiveBox), page-change monitoring, AI-enriched digital archives, and a curated free-API catalog.
  • security-toolkit — Five defensive security skills covering OWASP Top 10, supply-chain hardening, and secret scanning: pre-deployment audit checklists, secure authentication (hashing, sessions, JWT, OAuth, passkeys), API hardening (rate limiting, CORS, throttling), npm/bun install-time cooldown with a sandboxed bypass
  • superjawn — Research-augmented fork of obra/superpowers. Ships 13 workflow skills (brainstorming, planning, code review, debugging, verification, worktrees, parallel agents) standalone, with no dependency on the upstream superpowers plugin.
  • video-toolkit — Four composable skills for social-video accountability reporting: downloading public video from X, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook, transcribing it with a provenance record, extracting and vision-analyzing frames, and building an interactive dashboard.
  • web-design-picker — Build distinct website directions, a client review picker, asset catalog, previews, and Cloudflare-ready handoff packages.
  • visual-explainer — HTML diagrams, data tables, and architecture views adapted from nicobailon/visual-explainer with newsroom and academic design sensibilities. Generates self-contained pages with Mermaid diagrams, KPI cards, slide decks, and zoom/pan controls.

About this listing

Claude Skills Journalism is a community plugin on GitHub by jamditis, written as a Claude Code plugin that Grok Build installs. We install-checked it in Grok; we haven't run it in a live session or reviewed its code. When we installed it, Grok found 32 skills, 1 subagent, 13 plugins in this marketplaces. Its license is MIT. We checked commit e3e2172f760b. It's one of 79 listings in the Security category on GrokStacks.

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Claude Skills Journalism FAQ

How do I install Claude Skills Journalism in Grok Build?

Add the repo as a marketplace with grok plugin marketplace add jamditis/claude-skills-journalism, then run grok plugin install autocontext@jamditis/claude-skills-journalism --trust. This repo's marketplace has 13 plugins; we checked autocontext, dev-toolkit, journalism-core. Install another the same way: grok plugin install <name>@jamditis/claude-skills-journalism --trust (names under 'What it contains'). Then start a new Grok session, or press r in /plugins, to load it.

Is Claude Skills Journalism an official Grok Build plugin?

No. Claude Skills Journalism is a community plugin on GitHub by jamditis, not in xAI's official Grok Build marketplace. We checked that it installs and what Grok loads from it, but haven't run it in a live Grok session or reviewed its code.

What does Claude Skills Journalism include?

According to what Grok loaded in our install check, Claude Skills Journalism includes 32 skills, 1 subagent, 13 plugins in this marketplaces: evolve, init, review, setup, status, accessibility-compliance….

Details

Type
Plugin
Category
Security
Source
Community Claude Code plugin, installs in Grok
License
MIT
Author
jamditis
Keywords
academic-writing, claude, claude-code, claude-skills, data-journalism, fact-checking, foia, journalism, media, newsroom, osint, skills
Source repo
https://github.com/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism
Checked commit
e3e2172f760b
Homepage
https://skills.amditis.tech/
Checked by GrokStacks
Install-checked in Grok Build on Oct 18, 2026; not run in a live session

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