audit-user-story

audit-user-story is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from abrahamFerga/scrum-skills. It costs 135 tokens per session (1,514 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checker for user stories, which are short descriptions of a user's need in a project-management system. It reviews their format, size, testability, acceptance criteria, and readiness for a Scrum sprint.

In plain words
What is it for?
It audits stories from Azure DevOps or Jira, or text pasted by the user, and can offer to add the results as a comment on the work item.
Why use it?
It finds unclear or incomplete work before a team plans it, reducing misunderstandings and rework during development.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit It audits stories from Azure DevOps or Jira, or text pasted by the user, and can offer to add the results as a comment on the work item.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/abrahamferga/scrum-skills/audit-user-story
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add abrahamFerga/scrum-skills --skill audit-user-story
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/abrahamFerga/scrum-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 135 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,514 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 $0.00135 $0.01514
Opus 5 $0.00068 $0.00757
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00303
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00151

Measured 11d ago against content hash ded8126122a1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

audit-user-story 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 11d 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.

skills/audit-user-story/SKILL.md · 148 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 148 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

User Story Audit

Purpose

A story that is unclear, too large, or untestable wastes the whole team's time — in refinement, in planning, and in delivery. This skill runs a structured audit so issues are caught before the story enters a Sprint, not during one.


Tool detection

  1. Check for active mcp__azure-devops__* tools → set $PM_TOOL to ado
  2. Otherwise check for active mcp__jira__* tools → set $PM_TOOL to jira
  3. If both → ask: "I see both ADO and Jira connected — which should I use?"
  4. If neither → set $PM_TOOL to manual

Step 1 — Fetch the story

  • ADO / Jira: Ask: "What's the work item ID or issue key you'd like me to audit?" Then retrieve the full item including title, description, acceptance criteria, state, and any linked items.
  • Manual: Ask the user to paste the story content directly.

Store the content as $STORY. If the item cannot be found, say so and ask the user to paste it instead.


Step 2 — Run the audit

Evaluate $STORY across four areas. Grade each check as:

  • Pass — meets the standard
  • ⚠️ Warning — present but weak; worth improving
  • Fail — missing or clearly broken; blocks readiness

Area 1 — Story Format

Check Pass condition
Title is action-oriented Starts with a verb + noun (e.g. "View monthly summary")
Story statement present Has "As a / I want / So that" or equivalent
Persona is specific Not "user", "the system", or "admin"
"So that" states value Names an outcome or benefit, not a restatement of the want
No implementation detail in the story Story describes what, not how

Area 2 — Acceptance Criteria

Check Pass condition
ACs present At least 3 criteria exist
ACs are conditions, not UI steps Each AC describes an observable outcome, not a sequence of clicks
ACs are independently verifiable Each AC can be tested without depending on another
Edge cases covered Error states, empty states, or boundary conditions addressed where relevant
No ambiguous language Avoid "should", "might", "fast", "easy" — prefer measurable specifics

Read the full file on GitHub · 148 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. 11d ago First seen · 148 lines · 135 tokens per session scan A ded8126122a1

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audit-user-story is a skill published in the GitHub repository abrahamFerga/scrum-skills (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 135 tokens to every session and 1,514 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-08-31.