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Summary
AI summaryAdded pr-calendar to build six‑month PR plans from Medialyst and enhanced find-journalists with wider research, self‑audit for gaps, single‑call enrichment, and iterative “pull the thread” discovery.
Full changelog
Added
pr-calendarnow builds planned PR calendars from Medialyst's live PR
calendar API. The new skill pulls source-backed upcoming moments through
newsjack pr-calendar queryor the Medialyst MCP fallback, keeps only the
moments where the brand has real standing, researches prior-year coverage
patterns withnews-search, and turns the result into a six-month,
lead-time-aware plan.- The CLI now wraps
POST /api/v1/pr-calendar/query. Agents can query
source-backed awareness days, seasonal hooks, conferences, retail moments,
and cultural moments with convenience filters or an exact JSON API body.
Changed
find-journalistsnow casts a wider research net before narrowing. The
skill separates two stages with opposite instincts — research wide (review on
the order of ~100 articles/bylines across multiple queries, angles, regions,
and outlet tiers to find ~10 real fits), then send tight — and clarifies that
the anti-spam doctrine governs the send, not how widely you research. List
size is now framed as an output of how many journalists genuinely fit, not a
target to hit; the wave can be larger or smaller than 5-15 when the evidence
says so.find-journalistsnow self-audits for coverage gaps before returning.
A new step checks for obvious misses (unsearched regions/tiers, untried
angles, competitor coverage, freelancers/newsletters, breaking coverage,
unchased ambiguous bylines) and loops until a fresh round surfaces no new
fits — coverage saturation — rather than stopping at a number. The summary
now reports how wide the search went and where it stopped.find-journalistsnow enriches the whole candidate pool in one call, then
ranks. The skill invites the user to enrich the entire on-topic pool — one
enrich call takes up to 500 article URLs, so it passes the whole pool in a
single call instead of hand-splitting batches. Enrichment returns each
journalist's verified contact and recent articles, and that evidence is then
ranked to set the send waves/tiers (enrich a lot, send few) rather than
pre-narrowing to a few anchors before enriching.find-journalistsnow teaches the "pull the thread" research method.
Instead of only firing queries thought up in advance, the skill searches a
topic, reads the coverage, harvests the named entities and phrases inside it
(people, companies, regulators, programs, events, quoted sources), and
searches those in turn — repeating until new threads stop surfacing new
coverage. This is how the non-obvious bylines, which usually sit two or three
hops in, get found.
What's Changed
- docs(find-journalists): consolidate skill into one decision path by @elvisun in https://github.com/elvisun/newsjack/pull/52
- [codex] Add PR calendar API support by @elvisun in https://github.com/elvisun/newsjack/pull/53
Full Changelog: https://github.com/elvisun/newsjack/compare/v0.1.14...v0.1.15
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