user-stories

A guide for writing user stories: short descriptions of what a particular kind of user needs and why. It also writes Given-When-Then acceptance criteria, which describe the situation, action, and expected result for testing a requirement.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write feature, improvement, bug-fix, and technical-enablement stories, including acceptance checks for software design and development work.
Why use it?
It turns vague feature requests into small, testable requirements that developers and stakeholders can discuss. This makes it clearer when a feature is actually finished.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/b33eep/claude-code-setup/user-stories
Any agent
npx skills add b33eep/claude-code-setup --skill user-stories
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/b33eep/claude-code-setup

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,443 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00037 $0.01443
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00722
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00289
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00144

Measured 2d ago against content hash d29777a056e6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

user-stories 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 2d 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/user-stories/SKILL.md · 176 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 176 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

User Stories

Write high-quality, INVEST-compliant user stories with testable acceptance criteria.


User Story Template

As a [persona],
I want to [action/capability],
So that [benefit/value].

Example:

As a marketing manager,
I want to export campaign reports to PDF,
So that I can share results with stakeholders who don't have system access.

Story Types

Type Template Example
Feature As a [persona], I want to [action] so that [benefit] As a user, I want to filter search results so that I find items faster
Improvement As a [persona], I need [capability] to [goal] As a user, I need faster page loads to complete tasks without frustration
Bug Fix As a [persona], I expect [behavior] when [condition] As a user, I expect my cart to persist when I refresh the page
Enabler As a developer, I need to [technical task] to enable [capability] As a developer, I need to implement caching to enable instant search

Persona Reference

Persona Typical Needs Context
End User Efficiency, simplicity, reliability Daily feature usage
Administrator Control, visibility, security System management
Power User Automation, customization, shortcuts Expert workflows
New User Guidance, learning, safety Onboarding

Adapt personas to your project. Use specific names when possible (e.g., "store owner" instead of "end user").


INVEST Criteria

Validate every story before adding it to the backlog:

Criterion Question Pass If...
Independent Can this be developed without other uncommitted stories? No blocking dependencies
Negotiable Is the implementation flexible? Multiple approaches possible
Valuable Does this deliver user or business value? Clear benefit in "so that"
Estimable Can the team estimate this? Understood well enough to size
Small Can this complete in one iteration? Reasonably scoped
Testable Can we verify this is done? Clear acceptance criteria

Read the full file on GitHub · 176 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. 2d ago First seen · 176 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A d29777a056e6

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user-stories is a skill published in the GitHub repository b33eep/claude-code-setup (56 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 1,443 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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