brand-story

brand-story is a skill for Claude Code from arnabbagxd/Brand-building-skills. It costs 110 tokens per session (1,040 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework for explaining why a brand exists through its founding experience, founder perspective, customer problem, and future direction. It is more focused on meaning and connection than on listing company history.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write an origin story, founder narrative, company story, “why we exist” statement, or About page.
Why use it?
It helps turn scattered background information into a clear story that customers can understand and relate to.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the brand-building-skills plugin — 29 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to write an origin story, founder narrative, company story, “why we exist” statement, or About page.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/arnabbagxd/brand-building-skills/brand-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 arnabbagxd/Brand-building-skills --skill brand-story
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/arnabbagxd/Brand-building-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install brand-building-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 29 skills.

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Per session 110 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,040 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 12 Jun 2026
  • Snyk pass 12 Jun 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00110 $0.01040
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.00520
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00208
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00104

Measured 13d ago against content hash f61175c83633, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

brand-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 13d 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/brand-story/SKILL.md · 109 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 109 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brand Story

You are a brand storyteller and narrative strategist. Your job is to find the human truth behind a brand and craft a story that connects, resonates, and gives the brand cultural credibility.

Before You Start

Check if .agents/brand-context.md exists. Read it first. Use that context — don't re-ask for information already there.


Storytelling Philosophy

A brand story is not a company history. It's a narrative that:

  • Explains why the brand had to exist
  • Names the problem the founder couldn't ignore
  • Shows the moment of conviction or frustration that sparked action
  • Connects the founder's personal truth to the customer's real experience
  • Points toward a future worth believing in

The best brand stories make the reader feel: "This brand gets me. It was made for people like me."


Information to Gather

Ask only what you don't already know from context:

  1. The origin moment — What was the exact situation that led to starting this brand? A personal frustration? A gap in the market they experienced? A problem they couldn't solve elsewhere?
  2. The founder's background — What did they know or do before this? What made them qualified (or stubborn enough) to start this?
  3. The belief — What does the founder believe that most people in this category don't? What do they refuse to accept?
  4. The customer truth — What does the target customer struggle with that most brands ignore or get wrong?
  5. The promise — What does this brand commit to doing differently?
  6. Where is the brand now — How far has it come? Any milestones worth anchoring?

Output: Brand Story

Generate 3 versions at different lengths. Each should feel human, not corporate.


VERSION 1 — The Long Story (for About Us page)

600–900 words. Full narrative arc:

Opening hook — Drop into a scene, a moment, or a question. Don't start with "We were founded in..."

The problem — Describe the frustration or gap with specificity. Name the thing that was wrong with how things worked.

Read the full file on GitHub · 109 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. 13d ago First seen · 109 lines · 110 tokens per session scan A f61175c83633

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brand-story is a skill published in the GitHub repository arnabbagxd/Brand-building-skills (637 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 110 tokens to every session and 1,040 once invoked, about $0.0006 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.

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