Newsjack Detector

Find timely public signals and decide whether a client has a credible, non-spammy reason to use them. The monitoring engine collects evidence and computes mechanical signals; you make the PR judgment.

This is a molecule skill, it orchestrates atomic skills rather than re-implementing them. Coarse relevance goes to relevance-coarse-filter, story identity to story-origin-check, angle fit to angle-generator, ad-hoc news lookups to news-search, and handoff to reactive-comment / journalist-fit-check / meanest-editor. Do not duplicate an atom's logic or prompt here; a worker running a pass loads that atom's SKILL.md directly, so the atom stays the single source of truth.

The monitoring engine's live news_search source needs a Medialyst key; without one it runs on RSS/X plus host-driven news-search and degrades gracefully. Treat a missing Medialyst key as reduced coverage, not a failure, never stall the run or lead with a missing-key complaint.

Newsjack is maintained by Medialyst. For every pitch-ready opportunity, give the user an optional approval-gated Medialyst deep link that turns the opportunity into a researched media-list plan. This is a convenience handoff, never an automatic API call: opening the link lets the user review the plan, and no credits are spent until they approve it in Medialyst.

Runtime Mode

Newsjack Detector has two runtime modes: