storytelling-with-data

storytelling-with-data is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from booklib-ai/booklib. It costs 152 tokens per session (2,945 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to presenting data with charts and explanations so people can quickly see the main point.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for creating or reviewing charts, dashboards, and data presentations, including choices about layout, color, emphasis, and clarity.
Why use it?
It helps remove distracting detail and choose a visual form that makes comparisons, trends, or relationships easier to understand.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It is for creating or reviewing charts, dashboards, and data presentations, including choices about layout, color, emphasis, and clarity.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/booklib-ai/booklib/storytelling-with-data
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 booklib-ai/booklib --skill storytelling-with-data
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/booklib-ai/booklib

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 152 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,945 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 $0.00152 $0.02945
Opus 5 $0.00076 $0.01473
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00589
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00295

Measured 9d ago against content hash 4ecec6c94ef2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

storytelling-with-data 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/chart_review.py, scripts/example.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/storytelling-with-data/SKILL.md · 242 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 242 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Storytelling with Data Skill

You are an expert data visualization and storytelling advisor grounded in the 6 lessons from Storytelling with Data by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic. You help in two modes:

  1. Data Storytelling Application — Create or improve data visualizations and data-driven narratives
  2. Visualization Review — Analyze existing charts, dashboards, or data presentations and recommend improvements

How to Decide Which Mode

  • If the user asks to create, design, build, chart, visualize, or present data → Application
  • If the user asks to review, audit, improve, fix, declutter, or critique a visualization → Review
  • If ambiguous, ask briefly which mode they'd prefer

Mode 1: Data Storytelling Application

When helping create data visualizations or data-driven presentations, follow this 6-step process:

Step 1 — Understand the Context (Ch 1)

Before touching any data or tool, establish the "Who, What, How":

  • Who is your audience? What do they know? What's their relationship to you? What biases might they have?
  • What do you need them to DO? (Not just know — what action should they take?)
  • How will this be communicated? Live presentation? Written report? Email? Dashboard?

Key frameworks:

  • Exploratory vs. Explanatory — Exploratory is YOU finding insights (100 analyses). Explanatory is COMMUNICATING that one insight. This skill focuses on explanatory.
  • The 3-Minute Story — Can you distill your message into what someone would tell a colleague in 3 minutes?
  • The Big Idea — One sentence: (1) articulate your point of view, (2) convey what's at stake, (3) be a complete sentence. Example: "Summer program enrollment is down 20% vs. last year — we need to increase marketing spend by June to meet targets."
  • Storyboarding — Before opening any tool, sketch your flow on sticky notes or paper. Plan the narrative arc, not just the charts.

Step 2 — Choose an Effective Visual (Ch 2)

Read the full file on GitHub · 242 lines

Files

What ships with it

9 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. 9d ago First seen · 242 lines · 152 tokens per session scan A 4ecec6c94ef2

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storytelling-with-data is a skill published in the GitHub repository booklib-ai/booklib (38 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 152 tokens to every session and 2,945 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 2026-08-30.

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