Subwave News Dispatch

What it does

When your agent uses it

• The user wants to write a news post / dispatch / news article
• Announce a feature on the news page
• Add a changelog entry to the site
• Post an update about <feature

Example prompts

• “Dispatches”
• “write a news post / dispatch / news article”
• “announce a feature on the news page”
• “/subwave-news-dispatch”

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1What's new. One or two lines. What shipped, in plain words.
2. 2How to use it. The concrete steps. Real commands, the exact filename/folder, where to click in admin. Use fenced code blocks for commands…
3. 3Why it helps. The benefit, in one short paragraph. What it lets them do now that they couldn't before.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit c7c668e. 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

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • npm
  • git

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

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use npm and git, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

  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

Subwave News Dispatch loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 183 tokens; SKILL.md has 683 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~183

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.6k

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

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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 perminder-klair/subwave at commit c7c668e, republished under its MIT licence (© perminder-klair). 683 words, ~1,626 tokens.

name

subwave-news-dispatch

description

Write a news post for the SUB/WAVE "Dispatches" page, a short human-friendly tutorial about a feature, fix, or release. Use this skill whenever the user wants to "write a news post / dispatch / news article", "announce a feature on the news page", "add a changelog entry to the site", "post an update about <feature>", "write release notes for the site", or "tell people about <what shipped>" for SUB/WAVE. The skill knows where the markdown lives (web/content/news), the frontmatter schema, the what/how/why structure, and that every draft must be run through the `no-ai-slop` skill before saving. It does NOT publish or deploy; it just writes the .md file, and the /news page picks it up on the next build.

web/content/news/YYYY-MM-DD-slug.md

---
title: Make your DJ sound like anyone     # the headline; sentence case, no trailing period needed
date: 2026-05-30                          # ISO yyyy-mm-dd; drives ordering (newest first)
category: Feature                         # Release | Feature | Fix | Announcement | Spotlight
version: v0.2.0                           # optional, shows as a dateline tag
author: The SUB/WAVE desk                 # optional, byline on the article page
excerpt: One or two sentences shown on the index card and used as the meta description.
---

cd web && npm run lint && npm run build

---
title: Make your DJ sound like anyone
date: 2026-05-30
category: Feature
version: v0.2.0
author: The SUB/WAVE desk
excerpt: PocketTTS can now clone a voice from a single WAV. Drop a clip in the voices folder, point a persona at it, and that's the voice on air.
---

Voice cloning used to be a Chatterbox-only trick. PocketTTS can do it too now...

## What's new

PocketTTS does zero-shot cloning from one reference WAV...

## How to use it

Drop the `.wav` into the voices folder:

Then open a DJ persona in admin and set its voice to that filename. Save.

## Why it helps

Your station gets a real on-air identity...

© perminder-klair, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. 2 hidden characters (zero-width or bidirectional) removed. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in .claude/skills/subwave-news-dispatch of perminder-klair/subwave.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit c7c668e