Agent skill

Public Relations

by cbrock84 in cbrock84/headcount

Plans and executes earned media — press strategy, journalist outreach, announcements, commentary, and crisis response.

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Install Public Relations

skills CLI
$ npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill public-relations -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install cbrock84/headcount public-relations --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/marketing/skills/public-relations .claude/skills/public-relations && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
public-relations
GitHub stars
2k
Token cost
~921 tokens
SKILL.md length
532 words
Files
2 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
178
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Plans and executes earned media — press strategy, journalist outreach, announcements, commentary, and crisis response.

  • SKILL.md covers Newsworthy is a high bar, Pitching, Interviews and When a story goes badly, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Public Relations is an agent skill from cbrock84/headcount. Plans and executes earned media — press strategy, journalist outreach, announcements, commentary, and crisis response. Use this to plan a press push, write a pitch or release, find and approach the right journalists, prepare for an interview, decide whether something is newsworthy, or respond to a story going badly.

Its SKILL.md is about 920 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including reference files (for example `references/sources.md`).

The repository describes itself as: An agent organization structured as a company — 15+ departments, 125+ skills, each independently installable, citing the standards and regulators that settle the question. Runs… The licence is MIT.

Example prompts

  • “Use the public-relations skill to plan and executes earned media — press strategy, journalist outreach, announcements, commentary, and crisis response”
  • “/public-relations”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 98d1c17. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Public Relations loads about 921 tokens when it runs, and up to ~1.2k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 84 tokens; SKILL.md has 532 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~84
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~921
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~1.2k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from cbrock84/headcount at commit 98d1c17, republished under its MIT licence (© cbrock84). 532 words, ~921 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/public-relations/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
public-relations
description
Plans and executes earned media — press strategy, journalist outreach, announcements, commentary, and crisis response. Use this to plan a press push, write a pitch or release, find and approach the right journalists, prepare for an interview, decide whether something is newsworthy, or respond to a story going badly.

Public relations

Newsworthy is a high bar

Most company news is not news. Before pitching, find the actual story — the thing a journalist's readers would care about with your company removed from the sentence.

Genuinely newsworthy: a first, a significant number, a counter-intuitive finding from data you uniquely have, a named conflict, a consequential person moving. Not newsworthy: a funding round of ordinary size, a feature release, a partnership, an award, a rebrand.

If there is no story, the answer is to build one — original research is the most reliable way — not to pitch harder.

Pitching

Journalists receive hundreds of pitches a day and reject most in seconds.

  • Pitch a person, not an outlet. Read three of their recent pieces first and reference one specifically and accurately. Generic personalization is worse than none.
  • Subject line is the pitch. If it does not carry the story, nothing else will be read.
  • Three sentences: the story, why now, why you can speak to it. Offer the assets — data, interview, images — rather than attaching them.
  • No embargo without agreement. Declaring one unilaterally is not binding and reads as presumptuous.
  • One follow-up, then stop.

Interviews

Decide the two or three things you want to have said, and find honest routes back to them. Never speculate, never say anything you would not want printed, and treat nothing as off the record unless explicitly agreed in advance — and even then, assume it may not hold.

"I don't know, I'll find out" is a complete and respectable answer.

When a story goes badly

  • Speed matters, but accuracy matters more. A fast wrong statement extends the story.
  • Say what happened, what you are doing, and when you will update. Only that.
  • Never dispute a factual detail you have not verified, and never attack the reporter. Both guarantee a second story.
  • Correct genuine errors privately, with evidence, and specifically. Vague complaints about tone achieve nothing.
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Sources

references/sources.md in this skill lists the outside authorities that settle the questions here — what each one is authoritative for, and what you may do with it. Check them before answering on anything they cover, and cite what you used. Most are free to read and not free to reproduce; the use note on each is binding.

Tooling

Media databases and pitching: Muck Rack, Cision, Prowly, Roxhill, and similar. They are expensive, and their value is contact accuracy and beat data rather than the ability to send in bulk — a list-blast through one of them is the fastest way to be ignored by the journalists on it.

Wire distribution: Business Wire, PR Newswire, and similar. A wire buys disclosure and syndication, not coverage; treat it as a compliance or record-keeping tool unless you have a reason otherwise.

Monitoring: Meltwater, Brandwatch, Google Alerts, and similar. Set it up before the story you need to see, not after.

Never

  • Pitch a story that is only news to you. A funding round, a hire, and a redesign are not news outside the company.
  • Send a pitch to a journalist whose recent work you have not read.
  • Enter an interview without deciding in advance what you will not say.
  • Respond to a damaging story before establishing whether it is accurate.

© cbrock84, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file (references) in plugins/marketing/skills/public-relations of cbrock84/headcount.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/sources.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 98d1c17

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Questions about Public Relations

What does Public Relations do?

Plans and executes earned media — press strategy, journalist outreach, announcements, commentary, and crisis response. Public Relations is an agent skill from cbrock84/headcount. Plans and executes earned media — press strategy, journalist outreach, announcements, commentary, and crisis response.

How do I install Public Relations in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill public-relations -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/marketing/skills/public-relations in cbrock84/headcount) into .claude/skills/public-relations in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Public Relations in Codex?

Run `npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill public-relations -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/marketing/skills/public-relations in cbrock84/headcount) into .agents/skills/public-relations in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Public Relations in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill public-relations -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/public-relations, .gemini/skills/public-relations, .github/skills/public-relations and .opencode/skills/public-relations in your project.

What does Public Relations need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Public Relations is instructions for the agent only.

Does Public Relations access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Public Relations safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Public Relations use?

Public Relations is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Public Relations use?

About 921 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.7k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 323 tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Public Relations?

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Who maintains Public Relations?

cbrock84 (a GitHub user) maintains it in cbrock84/headcount, which has 2,016 GitHub stars. The repository holds 178 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 17, 2026.

Source: cbrock84/headcount on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.