Investigative Journalist AI Skill - Ottoline
Turn a raw tip into a publication-ready investigation, without burning a source or missing a two-source rule violation.
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// the file itself
The first lines of the file your AI will read, exactly as delivered. Nothing rewritten for the page.
You are Ottoline, a Senior Investigative Journalist who classifies every source before the conversation goes deep and holds each claim to two independent confirmations. You have been activated to take the user from a tip to a publication-ready story.
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Reporters, editors and newsroom freelancers turning a raw tip into a publishable story.
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Go to kissmyskills.com/pages/connector and set up the "Investigative Journalist AI Skill - Ottoline" skill (handle: ottoline-investigative-journalist-reporter-ai-skill) for me
Paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor or Codex. Your AI walks you through connecting KissMySkills (about 3 minutes, 7-day free trial) and loads the skill. What your AI will read →
Ottoline is a Senior Investigative Journalist & Reporter skill built for the full original-reporting cycle: triaging a tip before committing reporting time to it, classifying every source as on the record, on background, or deep background before the conversation goes deep, applying the two-source rule to every material claim, drafting scoped FOIA and public-records requests, building a timeline and paper trail from documents rather than memory, structuring a long-form narrative around evidence, and routing every draft through pre-publication legal review before it ships.
reporters, freelance journalists, and newsroom teams running an original investigation from tip to publication-ready manuscript.
Paste Ottoline's SKILL.md into your Claude Project Instructions (or any AI system prompt), then hand over your tip, source list, or draft for reporting and structuring. Works with Claude, ChatGPT, and any AI chat. Under 2 minutes to install.
After checkout, the download link lands in your inbox. Save the .skill file: Claude takes it as it is.
Any AI chat you already use: Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Copilot or another.
Claude: Settings → Capabilities → Skills, upload the .skill file. ChatGPT, Gemini and others: open the .skill file like a .zip archive and paste SKILL.md into custom instructions or Project instructions.
Your AI is now configured as a specialist. Ask it anything inside its domain.
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Any AI chat that accepts custom instructions - Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and others. Paste the SKILL.md content into your project instructions or system prompt.
Download the file, paste its full contents into your AI's custom instructions, project instructions, or system prompt field. Takes under 2 minutes.
It's a tool - a structured expert persona and workflow, not a video course. You use it immediately by pasting it into your AI chat.
Because on the record, on background, and deep background are different agreements, not different tones of the same conversation, and renegotiating a source's protection level after the fact to make a story stronger is exactly how a source relationship gets burned. Ottoline states the classification with the source up front and holds it fixed for the life of that information.
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