Ai Journalism Skills

Ai Journalism Skills

Offers open-source skills and prompt workflows for journalists to hand to an AI agent, starting with a fact-checker. For reporters and newsrooms using Claude, ChatGPT or similar assistants.

Made by fdaudens on Hugging Face. These notes are Mindket's, written from its Space page and README; the app's own files and license are on Hugging Face.

About

What it is: Ai Journalism Skills is an open collection of skills and prompt templates for AI-assisted journalism. A skill here is a workflow with instructions, tool use and several steps, not just one prompt. Right now the collection lists one skill, a fact-checker, and the page names a few more ideas the maintainers could add.

Who it suits: Reporters, editors and newsroom developers who want ready workflows for an AI assistant. It also suits journalism students who want to see how a reporting task can be turned into a reusable skill.

Industry | Who uses it | How they use it | Example
News media | Reporters | Hand a claim to the fact-checker skill | Check a statement in a draft against several sources
News media | Editors | Review how a skill is written before the team adopts it | Read the skill files in the skills folder
Education | Journalism students | Learn how a task becomes a skill | Study the fact-checker skill
Technology | Newsroom developers | Build on shared skills instead of starting over | Send a pull request with a new skill

If you do not use an AI assistant in your work, you can skip it.

Where to use it: The skills are meant for these places:

• Claude and Claude Code, where the repository also holds plugin and CLAUDE.md files.
• ChatGPT and other AI assistants, by copying a skill from the skills folder.
• A web browser, to read the collection's page on Hugging Face.

Use case | Who | What they get back
Fact-check a claim | Reporters | A check of the claim against several sources
Read the collection | Editors and students | A page listing the skills and what each does
Share a new skill | Journalists with a workflow | A place to contribute it for others

How to set it up: Reading the page online needs nothing. To use a skill you need a few things:

• An AI assistant such as Claude or ChatGPT
• Python with pip, if you want the files on your computer
• The huggingface_hub package, which the first command installs

The steps download the Space, look at the collection and then copy a skill into your assistant.

1. Install the Hugging Face package.
2. Download the Space into a folder called ai-journalism-skills.
3. Move into that folder.
4. Open index.html in a web browser to see the collection.
5. Copy a skill from the skills folder into your AI assistant.

pip install -U huggingface_hub
hf download fdaudens/ai-journalism-skills --repo-type space --local-dir ai-journalism-skills
cd ai-journalism-skills

How to use it: Pick a skill in the skills folder and give it to your preferred assistant, then ask the assistant to do the job the skill describes. The README says a one-command install for Claude Code users is still to come through a plugin marketplace.

Tool | What it does
fact-checker | Checks claims against more than one source

Example: You copy the fact-checker skill into your assistant and ask it to check one claim from your draft. The README expects a skill like this to look things up, compare the sources it finds and point out where they disagree.

For newcomers and experts: If you are new to this, open the page and read what the fact-checker skill does. Then try it on one claim you already know the answer to. A skill is just a saved set of instructions that your assistant follows.

If you know the field, the README treats a skill as a small workflow rather than one prompt: it bundles instructions with access to tools and a chain of steps. A skill can look things up online, work with databases, open documents and talk to other services through APIs. The repository holds a skills folder, a plugin folder and notes for making a marketplace.

A journalist picks a skill from the skills folder
The skill is copied into an AI assistant
The assistant follows its steps and tools
The journalist reviews what comes back

Good to know: Only one skill is listed today. Source finder, FOIA helper, interview prep and data story are ideas, not finished skills.

• License: cc-by-4. The README says to use it freely with attribution.
• Cost to run: none named. You use your own AI assistant and whatever it costs you.
• Data it reaches: a skill can reach the web, databases, documents and APIs, depending on the assistant and tools you give it. This Space itself is static pages and files.
• Not for: replacing a reporter's own checking. The README presents the skills as helpers that do work for you, and pull requests are welcome.

On Hugging Face, 13 November 2026

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• License: cc-by-4.0

Links

• Space: https://huggingface.co/spaces/fdaudens/ai-journalism-skills
• Files: https://huggingface.co/spaces/fdaudens/ai-journalism-skills/tree/main

Try it

Open the Space in your browser, or copy it to your own Hugging Face account from its page. Nothing in this kit runs by itself.