# pr-calendar

Turns the Medialyst PR calendar feed into a brand-specific plan: it keeps the moments a brand can own, works pitch dates backward from the event, and drops tone-deaf hooks.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 696 installs · ★ 1650
- Author: elvisun
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/elvisun/newsjack/tree/HEAD/skills/pr-calendar/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-22
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/pr-calendar

## What it does

The skill reads a brand profile from `newsjack-setup` or a fixture JSON, then pulls the calendar with `newsjack pr-calendar query`, a wrapper over Medialyst's PR calendar API. The response carries `calendar` metadata plus `opportunities`, each with `title`, `type`, `start_date`, `pitch_start_at`, `pitch_deadline_at`, `lead_time_summary`, `pitch_angles`, `source_urls` and `confidence`. The planning window defaults to the next six months, since long-lead moments are already opening.

One review pass sorts every opportunity into four buckets — pitch-ready, watch, avoid — and the plan keeps only the moments where the brand has standing and proof to attach. The skill writes no angles or pitches and persists nothing. If the CLI is missing but the `medialyst` MCP server is connected, it falls back to the MCP tool with the same request body; with neither path available it stops rather than inventing dates.

The calendar itself is free, and Medialyst login exists only to prevent abuse. An unauthenticated live query will not go through: `newsjack login` prints a link you open to approve `newsjack CLI`. `--country-code` stays off by default because many global events carry no country code, so a local calendar is something you have to ask for.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add elvisun/newsjack --skill pr-calendar -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/pr-calendar/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/pr-calendar/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add elvisun/newsjack --skill pr-calendar -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/pr-calendar/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add elvisun/newsjack --skill pr-calendar -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/pr-calendar/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install elvisun/newsjack pr-calendar
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/pr-calendar/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add elvisun/newsjack --skill pr-calendar -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/elvisun/newsjack --path skills/pr-calendar
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/pr-calendar/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add elvisun/newsjack --skill pr-calendar -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/elvisun/newsjack/tree/HEAD/skills/pr-calendar/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- build a six-month pitch plan
- drop moments the brand has no standing for
- work out when pitching should start before an event
- check which stories landed around last year's version of a moment
- prep angles and media lists for a known future date

## Example prompts
- build a PR calendar for the next six months from our brand profile
- which industry conferences and seasonal hooks fall in the window, and when should we start pitching
- keep the moments where we have proof and put the rest on a watch list

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: pr-calendar
description: "Turn the Medialyst PR calendar feed into a brand-specific, lead-time-aware plan. Pull source-backed upcoming moments, keep only the few a brand has real standing to own, schedule backward from the event date, screen out tone-deaf hooks, and hand selected moments to angle and journalist prep ahead of time. The planned twin of newsjack-detector's reactive monitoring."
when_to_use: "User wants a PR calendar, editorial calendar, PR plan, or upcoming moments to pitch around; asks what to plan for next quarter or the next six months; asks what awareness days, holidays, seasonal hooks, industry events, conferences, anniversaries, or cultural moments are coming up; or wants to pre-build angles and media lists for a known future date. Use newsjack-detector instead when the trigger is news breaking right now."
metadata:
  category: Strategize
---

# PR Calendar

A PR calendar is the planned half of PR. `newsjack-detector` watches news breaking right now; this skill looks at known upcoming moments and decides which ones this brand should plan around, when pitching should start, and what proof the brand needs before anyone contacts journalists.

The calendar feed is source-backed, but the value is still judgment. Do not dump a list of dates. Most moments should disappear because the brand has no standing, the hook is too generic, or the moment is unsafe to commercialize.

This is a MOLECULE. It reads the brand's monitor profile, queries the calendar API through the CLI, cuts the feed to real candidates, checks what kinds of stories landed around last year's version of those moments, and returns a readable plan. It does not write angles or pitches itself, and it persists nothing.

## What this skill will not do

- It will not promise a magical best day or best time to send a pitch. Use windows, not fake precision.
- It will not list every observance. A weak or generic hook is not a media plan.
- It will not invent dates. Every moment in **Act this week**, **Six-month plan**, **Watch list**, and **Avoid** must come from the calendar feed or from a date the user explicitly supplied. If an obvious anchor is missing from the feed, mention it only under **Gaps & clusters** as "missing from the feed; verify separately before planning."
- It will not run the detector pipeline, coarse relevance filter, story-origin check, or freshness gate. This is a smaller context problem. One careful LLM pass over the calendar results is enough.

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