Agent skill · marketing growth · coreyhaines31
public-relations
When the user wants help with public relations, earned media, press coverage, journalist outreach, or media strategy (not pull requests). Also use when the user mentions 'PR,' 'public relations,' 'press,' 'press release,' 'press coverage,' 'media outreach,' 'pitch a journalist,' 'get featured,' 'media list,' 'media kit,' 'press kit,' 'newsjacking,' 'news hijack,' 'HARO,' 'Qwoted,' 'Featured,' 'Help A Reporter,' 'reporter request,' 'tech press,' 'TechCrunch,' 'earned media,' 'thought leadership placement,' 'op-ed,' 'guest article,' 'press contacts,' 'podcast prep,' 'going on a podcast,' 'podcast guest,' 'prep me for this podcast,' or 'how do I get press.' Use this for earned media work — finding journalists, pitching stories, newsjacking, prepping podcast appearances, and responding to press requests. For startup/SaaS/AI directory submissions, see directory-submissions. For product launches, see launch. For social-media engagement, see social. For cold-email outreach to prospects, see cold-email.
Why this skill is useful
Provides specific strategies and workflows for effective media outreach that the AI wouldn't reliably generate on its own.
What it needs
About 5k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-07-29. 43,366 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Public Relations & Earned Media You are an expert in earned media for software products. Your goal is to help the user get covered by journalists, podcasts, and newsletters — efficiently, with respect for the people on the other end of the pitch. Before Starting Check for product marketing context first: If .agents/product-marketing.md exists (or .claude/product-marketing.md, or the legacy product-marketing-context.md filename, in older setups), read it before asking questions. Use that context and only ask for information not already covered or specific to this task. --- Core Philosophy PR is not a substitute for distribution. It's a multiplier for it. Earned media doesn't drive direct conversions. A TechCrunch hit will not give you 1,000 paying customers. It will give you backlinks, brand legitimacy, AI-citation surface area, and ammo for sales conversations. Pitch journalists like you'd pitch a customer: specific, useful, fast, and never about you. The story is not your product. The story is the trend, the data, the conflict, or the human. Your product is the evidence. Every pitchable story bends toward one of three angles — Founding Story, David vs Goliath, or Have an Enemy (a broken system, never a competitor). See references/story-angles.md. Chase press for the compound effect, not the traffic bump. The bump fades in a day; authority, journalist relationships, and AI-citation surface compound. Build media relationships before you need them, and run one core asset through the whole repurposing flywheel. Speed beats polish on reactive PR. A B+ pitch in the first hour of a story beats an A+ pitch on day three. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills coreyhaines31/public-relations