jamditis
@jamditis
Public Skills
source-verification
by jamditis
Journalism source verification and fact-checking workflows. Use when verifying claims, checking source credibility, investigating social media accounts, reverse image searching, or building verification trails. Essential for reporters, fact-checkers, and researchers working with unverified information.
accessibility-compliance
by jamditis
Web accessibility patterns for news sites, journalism tools, and academic platforms. Use when building accessible interfaces, auditing existing sites for WCAG compliance, writing alt text for news images, creating accessible data visualizations, or ensuring content reaches all readers including those using assistive technologies. Essential for newsroom developers and anyone publishing web content.
content-access
by jamditis
Legal methods for accessing paywalled and geo-blocked content. Use when researching behind paywalls, accessing academic papers, bypassing geographic restrictions, or finding open access alternatives. Covers Unpaywall, library databases, VPNs, and ethical access strategies for journalists and researchers.
interview-transcription
by jamditis
Interview management, transcription workflows, and source note-taking for journalists. Use when preparing for interviews, managing recordings, transcribing audio/video, organizing source notes, creating timestamped references, or building interview databases. Essential for reporters conducting interviews and managing source relationships.
interview-prep
by jamditis
Prepare for journalism interviews with research checklists, question frameworks, and attribution guidelines. Use when preparing to interview sources, planning follow-up questions, or managing interview logistics. Covers consent, recording laws, and professional protocols.
fact-check-workflow
by jamditis
Structured workflow for fact-checking claims in journalism. Use when verifying statements for publication, rating claims for fact-check articles, or building pre-publication verification processes. Includes claim extraction, evidence gathering, rating scales, and correction protocols.
project-retrospective
by jamditis
Generate LESSONS.md retrospective files that capture institutional knowledge, especially failures. Use when closing out journalism projects, investigations, events, or publications. Includes templates for research projects, event post-mortems, editorial tools, and publications.
api-hardening
by jamditis
API security hardening patterns. Use when implementing rate limiting, input validation, CORS configuration, API key management, request throttling, or protecting endpoints from abuse. Covers defense-in-depth strategies for REST APIs with practical implementations for Express, FastAPI, and serverless.
security-checklist
by jamditis
Pre-deployment security audit for web applications. Use when reviewing code before shipping, auditing an existing application, or when users mention "security review," "ready to deploy," "going to production," or express concern about vulnerabilities. Covers authentication, input validation, secrets management, database security, and compliance basics.
digital-archive
by jamditis
Digital archiving workflows with AI enrichment, entity extraction, and knowledge graph construction. Use when building content archives, implementing AI-powered categorization, extracting entities and relationships, or integrating multiple data sources. Covers patterns from the Jay Rosen Digital Archive project.
social-media-intelligence
by jamditis
Social media monitoring, narrative tracking, and open-source intelligence for journalists. Use when tracking viral content spread, analyzing coordinated campaigns, monitoring breaking news on social platforms, investigating accounts for authenticity, or detecting misinformation patterns. Essential for reporters covering online narratives and digital investigations.
pdf-design
by jamditis
Design and edit professional PDF reports and proposals with live preview
page-monitoring
by jamditis
Web page monitoring, change detection, and availability tracking. Use when tracking content changes, detecting when pages go down, monitoring for updates, preserving content before deletion, or generating feeds for pages without RSS. Covers Visualping, ChangeTower, Distill.io, and self-hosted monitoring solutions.
crisis-communications
by jamditis
Crisis communication and rapid response workflows for journalists and communications professionals. Use when covering breaking news events, managing organizational communications during crises, coordinating rapid fact-checking efforts, or developing crisis response plans. Essential for newsrooms, PR teams, and anyone who needs to communicate accurately under time pressure.
mobile-debugging
by jamditis
Remote JavaScript console access and debugging on mobile devices. Use when debugging web pages on phones/tablets, accessing console errors without desktop DevTools, testing responsive designs on real devices, or diagnosing mobile-specific issues. Covers Eruda, vConsole, Chrome/Safari remote debugging, and cloud testing platforms.
editorial-workflow
by jamditis
Manage editorial workflows for newsrooms and publications. Use when tracking story assignments, managing deadlines, coordinating editorial calendars, or establishing handoff protocols between reporters and editors. Includes templates for assignment tracking, editorial calendars, and workflow documentation.
newsroom-style
by jamditis
Enforce AP Style and newsroom conventions for journalism writing. Use when writing news articles, editing drafts, creating headlines, or converting notes into publishable copy. Ensures professional standards for attribution, numbers, dates, and formatting.
template-selector
by jamditis
Choose the correct CLAUDE.md or LESSONS.md template for journalism projects. Use when starting a new project, setting up documentation, or unsure which template category fits best. Provides decision trees and selection guidance for 6 journalism-focused template types.
data-journalism
by jamditis
Data journalism workflows for analysis, visualization, and storytelling. Use when analyzing datasets, creating charts and maps, cleaning messy data, calculating statistics or building data-driven stories. Essential for reporters, newsrooms and researchers working with quantitative information.
foia-requests
by jamditis
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and public records request workflows. Use when drafting records requests, tracking submissions, understanding exemptions, appealing denials, or managing large document productions. Essential for investigative journalists, researchers, and transparency advocates.
secure-auth
by jamditis
Secure authentication implementation patterns. Use when implementing user login, registration, password reset, session management, JWT authentication, or OAuth integration. Provides production-ready patterns that avoid common tutorial pitfalls like insecure token storage, weak password hashing, and session fixation.
python-pipeline
by jamditis
Python data processing pipelines with modular architecture. Use when building content processing workflows, implementing dispatcher patterns, integrating Google Sheets/Drive APIs, or creating batch processing systems. Covers patterns from rosen-scraper, image-analyzer, and social-scraper projects.
zero-build-frontend
by jamditis
Zero-build frontend development with CDN-loaded React, Tailwind CSS, and vanilla JavaScript. Use when building static web apps without bundlers, creating Leaflet maps, integrating Google Sheets as database, or developing browser extensions. Covers patterns from rosen-frontend, NJCIC map, and PocketLink projects.
visual-explainer
by jamditis
Generate self-contained HTML pages that visually explain systems, data stories, investigations, editorial workflows, and code changes. Use when the user asks for diagrams, architecture views, visual diffs, data tables, timelines, source maps, or any structured visualization that would be painful to read as terminal output. Also activates for tables with 4+ rows or 3+ columns. Adapted from nicobailon/visual-explainer with journalism, newsroom, and academic design sensibilities.
one-way-door
by jamditis
Use this skill when creating new files that represent architectural decisions — data models, infrastructure configs, auth boundaries, API contracts, CI/CD pipelines, or event systems. Flags irreversible decisions and forces a discussion about trade-offs before committing.
Document design
by jamditis
This skill should be used when the user asks to "create a proposal", "design a report", "make a one-pager", "build a PDF", "create a newsletter", "design slides", "make event materials", "design a flyer", or needs help with print-ready HTML documents. Provides brand configuration, CSS patterns for print layout, and document design best practices.
newsletter-publishing
by jamditis
Email newsletter workflows for journalists and researchers. Use when creating, managing, or optimizing email newsletters, building subscriber lists, designing email templates, analyzing engagement metrics, or planning newsletter content calendars. Essential for independent journalists, academic communicators, and media organizations building direct audience relationships.
ai-writing-detox
by jamditis
Eliminate AI-generated writing patterns that erode reader trust. Activate when writing articles, documentation, press releases, or any content where AI patterns would undermine credibility. Essential for journalists using AI assistance who need human-sounding output.
project-memory
by jamditis
Generate CLAUDE.md project memory files that transfer institutional knowledge, not obvious information. Use when setting up new journalism projects, onboarding collaborators, or documenting project-specific quirks. Includes templates for editorial tools, event websites, publications, research projects, content pipelines, and digital archives.
academic-writing
by jamditis
Academic writing, research methodology, and scholarly communication workflows. Use when writing papers, literature reviews, grant proposals, conducting research, managing citations, or preparing for peer review. Essential for researchers, graduate students, and academics across disciplines.
electron-dev
by jamditis
Electron desktop application development with React, TypeScript, and Vite. Use when building desktop apps, implementing IPC communication, managing windows/tray, handling PTY terminals, integrating WebRTC/audio, or packaging with electron-builder. Covers patterns from AudioBash, Yap, and Pisscord projects.