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Fact-check a press release or pitch v1.0.0

Use this resource to fact-check the claims in a press release, pitch or message to a journalist before sending it

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Install with the CLI

In a terminal, from the folder you want:

npx --yes palatekit@latest install pr-claim-fact-check

With no option, the skill goes to ~/.agents/skills/; add --agent claude-code (or codex, cursor…) to target an agent.

First time: connect the CLI with

npx --yes palatekit@latest login

The agent triages the sentences of your draft, extracts the checkable claims (numbers, titles, quotes, dates, superlatives) and runs them one by one through newsroom methods: lateral reading, climbing to the primary source, provenance checks and triangulation across independent sources. Each claim gets one status among Verified, Disputed, Unverifiable and Missing source, with links. You get a verdict, the numbered list and a warning stating what a human must review.

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Updated November 2, 2026

Numbered list of claims with Verified, Disputed or Missing source status and citations.

Details

Works in
Install guides
Generates with
Your agent's model
Uses
  • Web search access for the agent
Licence
MIT

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What you get

  • SKILL.md: six verification methods illustrated with one running example
  • The four statuses, an evidence freshness table and the refusal rules
  • A three-section output format (verdict, facts and citations, warning)
  • Two complete worked examples of checked drafts

Good fit for

  • You are sending a pitch or release to journalists and cannot afford a wrong number or title
  • You are reviewing brand content full of statistics and superlatives ("first", "largest")
  • You want an independent check before publishing a quote or a figure

Not for

  • Rewriting or improving the draft (the skill only checks)
  • Checking facts with no web search access: claims then stay unverifiable
  • Finding journalists or building a media list

Tags

  • fact-checking
  • public relations
  • press release
  • sources
  • citations

About

You say

"Fact-check this pitch draft before I send it to the press: [text]."

Numbered list of claims with Verified, Disputed or Missing source status and citations.

Skill published by elvisun under the MIT license.

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Prerequisites

You bring
The draft text to check and Today's date and any source links you have
Dependencies
Web search access for the agent

How to use it

  1. Add the skill to an agent that can run web searches.
  2. Paste the draft with today's date and any source links you have.
  3. Fix or remove the disputed and unsourced claims, then run the check again.

Content preview

Files

  • LICENSE1.1 KB
  • NOTICE-PALATEKIT.md0.4 KB
  • SKILL.md22.2 KB

Origin and licence

Modified by PalateKit

Author
elvisun
Source
github.com/elvisun/newsjack/tree/47d0fb2f7fa6296aa6baa207c21ffce6defcf78e/skills/fact-check
Licence
MIT

Notice

Version modifiée de « fact-check » (elvisun, MIT) : traduction française et fiche par PalateKit.

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Frequently asked questions

Does it need internet access?

Yes, to verify anything for real. Without search, the skill still lists the claims and marks them unverifiable or missing a source.

Does it depend on other files from the newsjack project?

No. It optionally mentions two ethics files from the original repository but works without them.