mycroft

Search, read, link, audit, and journal durable Mycroft or Spotlight knowledge through the storage-neutral Knowledge Workspace Port. Use for vault questions, durable knowledge writes, morning briefs, audits, Spotlight context lookup, approved Spotlight ingestion, OpenKnowledge health checks, legacy QMD/Obsidian migration, and any request that names a knowledge logical space.

Scoutpost integration for scouts, monitoring, and beat signals via the scout CLI or REST API.

Sovereign web search, scrape, and source preservation (SearXNG + Crawl4AI) for Mycroft and Spotlight workflows; Firecrawl is an optional fallback.

Claim-to-evidence grounding discipline for Mycroft skills and recipes. Use when extracting findings, assigning confidence tags, fact-checking claims, ingesting vault notes, or deciding whether a piece of source material is a lead, a partially grounded claim, or a verifiable finding.

Ingest raw material, Spotlight handoffs, URLs, files, and text into the Mycroft knowledge vault.

Fact-check drafts, claims, and source assertions through Mycroft's SIFT recipe, escalating to Spotlight for deeper adversarial review when available. Uses the fact-check profile of epistemic-grounding — emits the full grounding object per the spec.

Eliminate AI-generated writing patterns that erode reader trust. Activate when writing articles, documentation, press releases, or any content where AI patterns would undermine credibility. For journalists using AI assistance who need human-sounding output.

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and public records request workflows. Use when drafting records requests, tracking submissions, understanding exemptions, appealing denials, or managing large document productions. Essential for investigative journalists, researchers, and transparency advocates.

Prepare for journalism interviews with research checklists, question frameworks, and attribution guidelines. Use when preparing to interview sources, planning follow-up questions, or managing interview logistics. Covers consent, recording laws, and professional protocols.

Use when preparing photos or images for a news wire, publication, photo CMS, or archive — embedding caption, byline, credit, alt text, keywords, copyright or Creative Commons license, and location into a file's IPTC, EXIF, and XMP metadata, or batch-tagging a folder of press photos with exiftool.

Craft effective story pitches for different publication types and formats. Use when pitching to editors, preparing query letters, or developing story angles. Includes templates for daily news, features, investigations, op-eds, and freelance queries.

Knowledge-base structure for journalist vaults. Load before creating or updating durable Mycroft wiki notes.

Obsidian vault operations for Mycroft journalist knowledge bases.

Safe command construction for Mycroft skills and recipes. Use before any shell call that includes user, model, scraped, config, filesystem, or generated values; validates URLs, DOI identifiers, paths, timestamps, filenames, and destructive-operation probes.

Maintain the Goose-installed Mycroft profile, source checkout, plugins, schedules, and doctor/update wrappers.

Placeholder publication voice and story packaging skill. The user should fill this in with outlet voice, formats, and editorial preferences.

Search the Mycroft and Spotlight markdown vaults with QMD before using broader web search.