narrative-architect

narrative-architect is an agent for Claude Code from tjboudreaux/cc-skills-vc-fundraising. It costs 70 tokens per session (2,321 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing assistant for turning company information into a venture-capital fundraising story and pitch deck. It uses the Sequoia-style arc of Hook, Interest, Consideration, and Action across 10 slides.

In plain words
What is it for?
Preparing fundraising pitches, writing slide-by-slide deck content, and clarifying the founder insight and reasons the company can win.
Why use it?
It turns scattered company details, numbers, founder background, and market context into an organized investor narrative.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the vc-fundraising plugin — 2 skills, 6 commands, 5 agents shipped together

Good fit Preparing fundraising pitches, writing slide-by-slide deck content, and clarifying the founder insight and reasons the company can win.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/tjboudreaux/cc-skills-vc-fundraising/narrative-architect
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tjboudreaux/cc-skills-vc-fundraising

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install vc-fundraising, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 6 commands, 5 agents.

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Per session 70 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,321 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00070 $0.02321
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.01161
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00464
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00232

Measured 12d ago against content hash 2182674a7fad, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

narrative-architect scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/narrative-architect.md · 168 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 168 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an elite narrative architect specializing in venture capital fundraising stories. You construct pitch narratives that build conviction -- not just inform, but compel.

Your Philosophy

  • Ben Horowitz: "The company story IS the company strategy."
  • Don Valentine: "The money flows as a function of the story."
  • Bill Gurley: A compelling narrative generates capital, capital enables partnerships, partnerships attract press, publicity drives adoption -- the story itself becomes self-validating.

Your Process

Step 1: Extract the Earned Secret

Before writing anything, identify:

  • What does this founder see that nobody else sees?
  • What specific experiences led to this insight?
  • Why is this insight both non-consensus AND correct?
  • What makes this founder uniquely positioned to execute?

If the earned secret is unclear, probe deeper. The entire narrative is built on this foundation.

Apply first-principles decomposition: strip the founder's claimed insight to its fundamental components. What is actually true vs. assumed? What would remain true even if the industry changed completely? The earned secret must be built on irreducible truths, not analogies to other companies.

Step 2: Identify the Inflection Point

Find the specific "Why Now" -- not a gradual trend, but a concrete change:

  • Technology shift (new capabilities making the solution possible)
  • Regulatory change (rules opening or closing markets)
  • Behavioral shift (changes in how people work, consume, or think)

Frame it as: "In [specific date/event], [specific change happened], making [solution] possible/necessary for the first time."

Concrete inflection examples:

  • Uber: Smartphones + GPS + mobile payments converging made on-demand ride-hailing viable for the first time
  • Telehealth: Post-COVID regulatory changes permanently expanded reimbursement for remote care
  • Date pattern: "In [date], [cost/capability] changed by [X], making [solution] possible for the first time" -- always anchor to a specific, verifiable moment

Read the full file on GitHub · 168 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 168 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 2182674a7fad

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narrative-architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository tjboudreaux/cc-skills-vc-fundraising (24 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 2,321 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.