story-loop

A workflow for listing a repository’s user-visible functions as complete scenarios, then testing each one through repeated test, fix, and re-test cycles.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check command-line tools, library interfaces, web pages, API endpoints, background jobs, and other observable parts of a repository from start to finish.
Why use it?
It replaces scattered checks with a clear record of what the project should do and whether each behavior has been verified. Unclear or unreachable behavior is recorded instead of guessed.

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/baleen37/bstack/story-loop
Any agent
npx skills add baleen37/bstack --skill story-loop
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/baleen37/bstack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,663 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 $0.00031 $0.01663
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00831
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00333
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00166

Measured 2d ago against content hash d92d39ff794d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

story-loop 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.

plugins/me/skills/story-loop/SKILL.md · 197 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 197 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Story Loop

Drive the current repository to a known-good state. Catalog every externally observable capability as an end-to-end scenario card, then loop through test, fix, and fresh re-test until the results are verified or explicitly parked.

REQUIRED SUB-SKILL: Use e2e-scenario-testing before Phase 0 for the card format, interface recipes, evidence discipline, and cleanup rules.

Which skill to use

  • /verify — does one change behave as intended (default path)
  • /e2e-scenario-testing — drive a running app through its real interface, one scenario
  • /story-loop — catalog the whole repository as scenarios, then loop to green

Scope

Use the area or surface named by the user. If the user gives no narrower scope, cover the whole repository.

Derive expected behavior from code, tests, fixtures, schemas, comments, and documentation. Prefer code when sources conflict. Do not guess: record ambiguous, underspecified, unreachable, or externally blocked behavior as an open question in the ledger.

A capability is any externally observable behavior the project exposes, including CLI commands, public library APIs, web routes, API endpoints, background jobs, configuration behavior, authentication flows, data formats, integrations, migrations, plugins, build tools, and developer workflows.

Artifacts

Scenario cards

Create one card per capability under test/scenarios/, named <area>-<nnn>-<slug>.md. The filename stem is the stable ID; never renumber it. Use the e2e-scenario-testing card format with these additions:

  • Put the actor, the scenario being covered, and source references under What this covers.
  • Put code-derived behavior under Expected, with one falsification condition per assertion.
  • Put ambiguities and footguns under Sharp edges and in the ledger notes.

Canonical ledger

Maintain exactly one test/scenarios/LEDGER.md:

ID Card Status Test method Defect type Actual result Notes / open questions

Read the full file on GitHub · 197 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 · 197 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A d92d39ff794d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

story-loop is a skill published in the GitHub repository baleen37/bstack (4 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 1,663 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 2026-08-31.

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