story-builder

story-builder is a skill for Claude Code from archugunov/pm-job-search. It costs 167 tokens per session (3,923 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for building and maintaining a reusable bank of STAR stories. STAR means Situation, Task, Action, and Result—the four parts commonly used to answer behavioral interview questions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to capture a new experience, edit an existing story, practice story angles, or check coverage of stories for different target roles.
Why use it?
It keeps your experiences in one organized place instead of rewriting them for every interview. It can also check which kinds of stories are missing from the collection.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the pm-job-search plugin — 13 skills, 6 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to capture a new experience, edit an existing story, practice story angles, or check coverage of stories for different target roles.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add archugunov/pm-job-search
Claude Code
/plugin install pm-job-search

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pm-job-search, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 6 agents.

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Per session 167 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,923 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 $0.00167 $0.03923
Opus 5 $0.00084 $0.01962
Sonnet 5 $0.00033 $0.00785
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00392

Measured 12d ago against content hash ee20599c73f8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

story-builder 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.

plugin/skills/story-builder/SKILL.md · 232 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 232 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/story-builder — maintain the universal STAR-story bank

Conversational skill that builds and maintains userdata/stories/*.md — the universal bank that /interview-prep adapts per-interview. One story per file. Filenames are auto-derived from titles; the user never types a filename.

Voice: every prompt (picker, STAR-section asks, angle drafting) follows ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/TONE.md. Apply the low-effort-first principle — for a NEW story, accept the user's rough first draft, then ask one targeted question at a time only if the draft needs it. Don't force the full STAR conversation when the user clearly has the story in their head already.

Inputs

  • All userdata/stories/*.md files. Read frontmatter (title, story_type, themes, role_lens, last_practised) — body only when an existing story is selected for editing.
  • userdata/profile.md — read ## Positioning, ## Proof Points, ## Tone of Voice, ## What NOT to Frame As. Use Tone of Voice to shape draft prose; check drafts against "What NOT to Frame As" before showing. Read target_titles from frontmatter for level-weighting in coverage analysis.
  • Story taxonomy: userdata/references/story-taxonomy.md if present, else ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/story-taxonomy.md (userdata override per TONE.md convention). Provides the 12 story types + coverage matrix + level-differentiation patterns.
  • Optional flags:
    • --new <"title"> skips the picker and goes straight to new-story flow with the given title.
    • --edit <slug> loads a story by filename slug.
    • --gap-check runs coverage analysis only — no edit flow. See Mode 4 below.

If userdata/profile.md is missing, tell the user to run /setup first.

Mode 1: Picker (default)

If no flag, build a picker. List every userdata/stories/*.md as:

  1. Payments pricing experiment [themes: growth, pricing, experimentation, post-PMF] (last practised 2026-05-11)
  2. Cross-functional review process [themes: leadership, process] (last practised 2026-04-22)
  3. Underwriting integration [themes: 0-to-1, data, fintech] (never practised)
    • New story (describe one)
  4. Cancel

Read the full file on GitHub · 232 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 · 232 lines · 167 tokens per session scan A ee20599c73f8

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story-builder is a skill published in the GitHub repository archugunov/pm-job-search (7 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 167 tokens to every session and 3,923 once invoked, about $0.0008 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.

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