narrative-building

narrative-building is a skill for Claude Code from Avyayalaya/pm-skills-arsenal. It costs 85 tokens per session (23,236 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of narrative-building, MIT.

A product-narrative method builds the reasoning and story behind a product, feature, or strategy, including its position in the market, why the timing matters, evidence, audience-specific versions, and responses to objections.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for product positioning, investor or board presentations, launch communications, internal alignment, press narratives, and explaining strategy to customers or stakeholders.
Why use it?
It helps explain not just what is being proposed, but why it matters now and why the chosen direction makes sense to different audiences.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument; mentions Codex.

Part of the pm-skills plugin — 12 skills, 1 hook, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it for product positioning, investor or board presentations, launch communications, internal alignment, press narratives, and explaining strategy to customers or stakeholders.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/avyayalaya/pm-skills-arsenal/narrative-building
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 Avyayalaya/pm-skills-arsenal --skill narrative-building
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Avyayalaya/pm-skills-arsenal

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pm-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 1 hook, 1 MCP server.

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README.md
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Per session 85 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 23,236 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 89% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00085 $0.23236
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.11618
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.04647
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.02324

Measured 12d ago against content hash 0d73bbdff4f0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

narrative-building 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.

Origin

This is a copy

89% identical to narrative-building — 106 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/narrative-building/SKILL.md · 1,317 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,317 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

Produce an elite-tier Strategic Narrative Document that constructs the story making a product, feature, or strategy feel inevitable — not by assertion but by structural argument. The output is not a tagline or a slide deck outline; it is a narrative engineering system: a structural spine, audience-adapted variants, evidence-integrated claims, pre-embedded objection responses, and a testing protocol that validates the narrative before it goes live.

When to Use / When NOT to Use

Use this skill when:

  • Positioning a new product or repositioning an existing one in a competitive market
  • Preparing a board deck, investor pitch, or executive strategy narrative
  • Writing the "why now" story for a product launch or market entry
  • Crafting the internal alignment narrative ("here's why we're doing this and not that")
  • Building a launch narrative for press, analyst briefings, or customer communications
  • Translating competitive analysis findings into a positioning story (downstream of Competitive Analysis)
  • A product has strong fundamentals but the story isn't landing with stakeholders or customers

Do NOT use this skill when:

  • You need competitive analysis (use Competitive & Market Analysis skill first — this skill consumes its output, it does not produce it)
  • You need to define what to build (use Specification Writing skill — narrative follows strategy, not the other way around)
  • You need customer discovery or research synthesis (use Discovery & Research skill — that's primary research, this is narrative construction from existing inputs)
  • You need metric design or success measurement (use Metric Design & Experimentation skill)
  • You need a tagline, slogan, or brand identity system (this skill produces strategic narrative, not copy)

Anti-inputs (what this skill does NOT handle):

  • Customer interview synthesis (-> Discovery & Research skill)
  • Competitive landscape mapping (-> Competitive & Market Analysis skill)
  • Product specification (-> Specification Writing skill)
  • Marketing copy, ad copy, or social media content (-> copywriting, not strategic narrative)
  • Visual design for presentations (this produces the narrative structure; design is a separate discipline)

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,317 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 1,317 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A 0d73bbdff4f0

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narrative-building is a skill published in the GitHub repository Avyayalaya/pm-skills-arsenal (6 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 23,236 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 89% identical to narrative-building, differing in 106 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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