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Use this skill whenever the user wants to do anything with PDF files. This includes reading or extracting text/tables from PDFs, combining or merging multiple PDFs into one, splitting PDFs apart, rotating pages, adding watermarks, creating new PDFs, filling PDF forms, encrypting/decrypting PDFs, extracting images, and OCR on scanned PDFs to make them searchable. If the user mentions a .pdf file or

Drafts a formal, legally complete Freedom of Information Act request letter to a U.S.

Creates a glossary of key terms for a specific topic or article, with concise plain-language definitions formatted for publication as a sidebar, companion box, or standalone reference.

Writes the in-email referral section that asks existing subscribers to share the newsletter with colleagues or friends — including the ask, the framing of the reward or reciprocity, and the specific share copy subscribers can use verbatim.

Generates complete, SEO-friendly podcast show notes from a transcript or episode summary — including episode description, key takeaways, timestamps, guest bio, and links section — ready to paste into a podcast host platform.

Writes the campaign description, reward tier copy, and campaign update text for a crowdfunding campaign for a media project on platforms like Kickstarter, Indiegogo, or Seed&Spark.

Writes a concise investor brief for a commercial media project, covering market opportunity, revenue model, production plan, and the investment case — structured for a private investor or media investment fund, not a broadcaster or arts council.

Generates a formatted newsletter sponsorship rate card that documents placement options, audience metrics, pricing tiers, and terms — suitable for sending to prospective sponsors or publishing as part of a media kit.

Produces a practical audience segmentation brief for a newsletter, identifying 3-5 distinct subscriber groups with tailored content recommendations and messaging strategies for each segment.

Takes a batch of reader comments, survey responses, or audience messages and returns a structured summary organized by theme, sentiment, and actionable takeaways — turning scattered feedback into a clear editorial brief.

Generates 6–8 fully developed episode concepts aligned to a podcast's format, theme, and audience — each with a title, premise, guest or source approach, and core listener question.

Writes a personalized outreach email inviting a specific person to appear as a guest on a podcast episode, with a clear pitch for why this conversation would be valuable to them and their audience.

Writes a sponsorship pitch email or one-page deck to a prospective brand partner, presenting the show's audience, format options, pricing, and the specific business case for why this brand should advertise on this podcast.

Writes a complete solo episode script for a host-led narrative or educational podcast, from opening hook through main content to closing call to action.

Generates a complete, platform-appropriate set of tags and keywords for a video or article, optimised for discoverability without keyword stuffing.

Use this skill whenever the user wants to create or edit .docx (Microsoft Word) files. This includes creating new Word documents from scratch, editing existing Word documents, extracting content from Word files, converting between formats, adding images or other content to Word files, or manipulating Word file structure. If the user mentions .docx, Word, DOCX, or wants to produce a Word document,

Create, modify, and improve skills, and measure their performance. This skill is used for developing new skills, editing existing ones, optimizing descriptions, and evaluating performance.

Generates the complete set of metadata fields — tags, categories, keywords, slug, and summary — needed to publish a piece of content in a content management system, ready to copy and paste into each field.

Takes a finished piece of content and produces a complete, archive-ready metadata record, including descriptive tags, subject classifications, rights notes, and an archival summary, for entry into a content management or digital archive system.

Drafts a GDPR compliance note for a specific piece of journalistic content or data collection activity — documenting the lawful basis for processing personal data, what data is held, how long it is retained, and who has access.

Reviews the details of a specific image and flags potential rights clearance issues before publication, identifying which permissions you likely need and which questions to bring to your legal or picture desk.

Reviews a story brief, draft article, or broadcast script and flags potential legal risks — including defamation, privacy, contempt of court, and data protection — so you know what to check before publication.

Drafts a formal, professional request letter to a music rights holder, seeking permission to use a track in a specific media production under defined terms.

Produces a correctly formatted bibliography or source list from details you provide, supporting AP, Chicago (Notes-Bibliography), and APA citation styles.

Reads a batch of raw audience comments, emails, or survey responses about a piece of content and produces a structured summary of what readers valued, what confused them, and what they want more of.

Takes one original headline and produces five distinct tested variants, each using a different proven approach to drive clicks, shares, or engagement — ready to load directly into a CMS or A/B testing tool.

Recommends the best platforms for distributing a finished piece of content, with a ranked list and a brief rationale for each recommendation based on the content type, format, length, and intended audience.

Recommends the best day and time to publish a piece of content based on the content type, platform, and intended audience — without requiring access to live analytics data.

Reads a batch of reader comments and produces a structured summary of recurring themes, unanswered questions, emotional tone, and actionable editorial signals — so editors and journalists can understand what their audience actually took from a piece.

Generates two or three distinct social media post variants for the same article or piece of content, each testing a different angle, hook, or emotional register, so you can run a controlled comparison and learn what resonates with your audience.

Produces a clear, specific description of who a piece of content is written for — including what that audience already knows, what they care about, and what they will do with the information — so editors, writers, and distributors can make better decisions at every stage of production.

Performs and explains basic statistical calculations — percentages, percentage changes, per-capita rates, averages, medians, and ratios — from data you provide, showing the working so you can verify it and use the figures confidently in a story.

Identifies unusual values, unexpected patterns, and potential stories hidden in a dataset by systematically checking for statistical outliers and contextual anomalies.

Identifies the newsworthy story or stories hidden inside a dataset before any writing begins — surfacing angles, outliers, trends, and comparisons that are genuinely publishable.

Produces a structured summary of what a dataset contains, what it covers, what its limitations are, and what story angles it could plausibly support — written as a briefing document for a journalist or editor.

Analyses poll or survey results and writes a clear, accurate, publication-ready explanation for a general audience — covering the headline finding, key subgroup breakdowns, methodology caveats, and what the numbers do and do not mean.

Rewrites a complex statistic — including percentage changes, relative risk, confidence intervals, medians, and index numbers — in plain language that a general audience can understand without sacrificing factual accuracy.

Writes clear, step-by-step instructions for cleaning a messy or inconsistent dataset — specifying exactly what needs to be standardised, corrected, or removed to make the data ready for analysis and publication.

Drafts a Freedom of Information request specifically targeting datasets, databases, or digital records — written to maximise the chance of receiving complete, machine-readable data rather than summary PDFs or partial tables.

Produces a structured extraction plan and clean spreadsheet template for pulling tabular data out of a PDF document — identifying the table structure, defining column headers, flagging extraction pitfalls, and providing a ready-to-use template that ensures the data lands in a consistent, analysable format.

Writes a clear, technical brief describing exactly what data needs to be collected from a website or set of web pages, how it should be structured, and what edge cases and legal/ethical considerations apply — for handoff to a developer or data team.

Writes a precise, publication-standard corrections notice for a data error published in an article — stating clearly what was wrong, what the correct figure is, and how the error affected the reported story.

Writes precise, publication-standard footnotes for data claims in a finished article — citing sources accurately, explaining how figures were derived where necessary, and flagging any caveats that qualified readers need to know.

Writes a plain-language explanation of a data journalism methodology — what data was used, where it came from, how it was processed, and what the analysis found — suitable for publication alongside a data story.

Writes a precise, accessible text description of a data visualization — covering the chart type, what it shows, the key finding, and the data range — suitable for publication as a caption, alt-text, or standfirst alongside the chart.

Writes clear, precise axis labels, legends, annotations, and source lines for a chart — the text layer that makes a graphic publishable.

Recommends the most effective chart type for your data and editorial goal, explains why it works, and warns you about common misrepresentations.

Formats raw or messy data into a clean, publication-ready table with appropriate headers, sorted rows, consistent number formatting, and a source note — ready to drop into an article, report, or web page.