What is the Template Selector skill for?

It helps developers and journalists choose the most appropriate documentation and memory templates for media-related software projects using Claude Code.

Can I use this for non-journalism projects?

While specifically optimized for journalism and academia, the logic can be applied to any project requiring structured retrospectives and project memory, though it may refer you to general templates for non-media work.

How does the decision tree help?

The decision tree identifies the specific nature of your project based on its end date, primary users, and goals to ensure you don't use a generic template for a specialized task.

Which journalism categories are supported?

The skill supports editorial tools, event websites, publications (newsletters/podcasts), research projects (investigations), content pipelines, and digital archives.

Journalism Template Selector

Name: Journalism Template Selector
Author: jamditis

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Learning & Documentation

Guides the selection of specialized documentation templates for journalism, media, and academic projects within Claude Code.

The Template Selector skill streamlines project initialization for journalism and media-focused repositories by providing a structured decision tree for choosing the ideal CLAUDE.md or LESSONS.md template. It categorizes projects into specific niches like editorial tools, publications, research projects, and content pipelines, ensuring that Claude has the right domain-specific context and memory structure from the start. This eliminates guesswork in project setup and ensures best practices are followed for data journalism, investigations, and archival work by providing a standardized framework for project memory and retrospectives.

Key Features

0141 GitHub stars

02Prevents organizational errors in journalism-specific software development

03Support for six specialized categories including editorial tools and research projects

04Interactive decision tree for accurate journalism project categorization

05Standardized templates for project memory (CLAUDE.md) and retrospectives (LESSONS.md)

06Contextual guidance to differentiate between media tools and content products

Use Cases

01Setting up documentation for a newsroom AI tool or fact-checking automation

02Structuring a historical digital archive or a recurring podcast publication project

03Initializing a new investigative data journalism repository with structured memory

What are Skills?·How to Install

Install with 🐟 Skill.Fish

npx skillfish add jamditis/claude-skills-journalism template-selector

For use in Claude.ai and ChatGPT

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