# Newsroom Route

> Describe a story you are reporting, in one box, in your own words. A desk editor proposes an
> ordered route through the reporting work - each step naming which journalism skill it applies
> and why - and you confirm, drop, reorder or swap steps with one click before it runs.

https://newsroom-route.skillsafe.ai/

## What it is for

A reporter holding raw material - a leaked document, a spreadsheet, an interview, a half-written
draft - and unsure what to do next. The app does not ask them to pick a tool or a mode. They
describe the situation; the model decides the route.

## How it works

Three beats and nothing else.

1. **Ask.** One text field. One plain-language description. No lane picker, no sheet, no mode
   selector. A free in-browser prescan reads the description first and notes what is missing -
   no deadline, no outlet, no jurisdiction named - plus anything sensitive it mentions, such as
   a minor, a confidential source, or an assertion of wrongdoing.
2. **Plan.** One run returns a proposed route: three to six ordered steps, each naming the skill
   it applies, why it applies for this reporting, what it produces, and its risk - legal,
   ethical, source-safety or none. Every gap the prescan found must be answered by the route,
   in a clarifying question, or it is reported as unaccounted for. The card is chips and toggles:
   drop a step, move it, swap in a suggested alternative, and confirm.
3. **Execute.** A second run carries out the confirmed steps in the confirmed order and drafts
   the actual artifacts - the claim grid, the records request, the question list, the headline
   options - not descriptions of them.

## Contract

Runs take a flat input object. `task` is `plan` or `execute`. `query` is the reporter's
description. `prescan` and `plan` are JSON-encoded strings. The plan stage returns one fenced
JSON object with `goal`, `read`, `steps`, `alternates`, `unmet` and `clarify`. The execute stage
returns Markdown: one `## Step N` section per confirmed step, then `## Where this stops`.

The skill catalogue is a private reference corpus, not a page asset. It is retrieved
server-side per run and never sent to the browser.

## Limits

It has not read your document, heard your interview or seen your spreadsheet. It plans what to
do with them and drafts against what you have described. It is not a lawyer and not an editor
of record. Verify before you publish.

## Sources

Built on ten open journalism skills published by @jamditis in `claude-skills-journalism`
(https://github.com/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism): story-pitch, data-journalism,
interview-prep, foia-requests, source-verification, one-way-door, fact-check-workflow,
newsroom-style, visual-explainer and ai-writing-detox. The app's thirty routing plays are a
derived decomposition of those ten skills; each names its source skill.