user-story-refine

user-story-refine is a command for Claude Code from matteocervelli/llms. It costs 9 tokens per session (734 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A user-story quality checker that reviews existing stories against INVEST, a checklist for making them independent, negotiable, valuable, estimable, small, and testable.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps validate one story, a backlog, or all stories; report issues; suggest fixes; optionally apply approved fixes; and regenerate documentation.
Why use it?
It finds unclear or oversized stories before development begins and explains how to improve them.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Good fit It helps validate one story, a backlog, or all stories; report issues; suggest fixes; optionally apply approved fixes; and regenerate documentation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/matteocervelli/llms/user-story-refine
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/matteocervelli/llms

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 9 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 734 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 $0.00009 $0.00734
Opus 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00294
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00002 $0.00147
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00073

Measured 1mo ago against content hash a4628baede6c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

user-story-refine 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 1mo 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.

.archive/user-story-system/.claude/commands/user-story-refine.md · 106 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 106 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Refine and Validate User Stories

Validate and refine existing user stories against INVEST criteria.

Usage

/user-story-refine <story-id>
/user-story-refine backlog
/user-story-refine --all

Examples

/user-story-refine US-0001
/user-story-refine backlog
/user-story-refine --all

What it does

  1. Load Stories - Loads specified story or multiple stories
  2. Validate - Runs INVEST validation on each story
  3. Report Issues - Presents validation issues with severity
  4. Suggest Fixes - Provides specific, actionable suggestions
  5. Apply Fixes - Optionally applies auto-fixes with user approval
  6. Regenerate - Updates Markdown documentation

Result

  • Validation scores for each story
  • List of issues found (critical/warnings)
  • Specific fix suggestions
  • Updated YAML files (if fixes applied)
  • Regenerated Markdown documentation

Activate the story-validator skill to validate and refine user stories.

Use the story-validator skill located in .claude/skills/story-validator/SKILL.md.

Parameters

  • story-id: Specific story to validate (e.g., US-0001)
  • backlog: Validate all stories with status "backlog"
  • --all: Validate all stories regardless of status

Validation Criteria (INVEST)

  • Independent - Can be developed separately
  • Negotiable - Open to discussion
  • Valuable - Delivers business value
  • Estimable - Can be estimated
  • Small - Fits within a sprint (≤8 points)
  • Testable - Has clear acceptance criteria

Scoring

  • 0-49: Fail - Requires significant improvement
  • 50-69: Needs work - Has issues to address
  • 70-84: Good - Minor improvements possible
  • 85-100: Excellent - High quality story

Auto-Fix Capabilities

The skill can automatically fix:

  • Missing story points (estimates based on complexity)
  • Empty "so that" benefits (generates from context)
  • Incomplete acceptance criteria (adds standard scenarios)
  • Vague descriptions (suggests clarifications)

Read the full file on GitHub · 106 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. 1mo ago First seen · 106 lines · 9 tokens per session scan A a4628baede6c

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user-story-refine is a command published in the GitHub repository matteocervelli/llms (25 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 9 tokens to every session and 734 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.