story-explanation

story-explanation is a skill for Claude Code from CarbeneAI/Forge. It costs 81 tokens per session (4,240 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing aid that turns source material into a story-shaped explanation, choosing a narrative angle and format for the summary.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create narrative summaries, story explanations, short multi-line versions, or longer explanations with links.
Why use it?
It helps avoid flat, formulaic summaries and makes the main idea easier to follow.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it to create narrative summaries, story explanations, short multi-line versions, or longer explanations with links.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/carbeneai/forge/storyexplanation
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 CarbeneAI/Forge --skill storyexplanation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CarbeneAI/Forge

Made for: Claude Code.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,240 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 $0.00081 $0.04240
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.02120
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00848
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00424

Measured 6d ago against content hash 408f01e701dc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

story-explanation 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 6d 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.

.claude/skills/StoryExplanation/SKILL.md · 448 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 448 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Story Explanation - Narrative Summary with Creative Analysis

🎯 Load Full PAI Context

Before starting any task with this skill, load complete PAI context:

read ${PAI_DIR}/skills/CORE/SKILL.md

Core Philosophy

Standard approach: Generate a generic summary of content.

This skill: Use UltraThink to analyze multiple narrative framings, then select the BEST one and present it in a compelling story format.

Based on:

  • UltraThink: Deep content understanding across multiple perspectives and narrative angles
  • Best framing selection: Choose the most compelling narrative angle from multiple options
  • Daniel Miessler voice: First person, casual, direct, genuinely curious

The Problem This Solves:

  • Generic summaries use obvious framing without exploring alternatives
  • Mode collapse causes formulaic story explanations
  • Best narrative angles get missed in favor of first-thought approaches
  • Content needs to be explained in conversational, engaging way

When to Activate This Skill

  • User requests story explanations or narrative summaries
  • User says "create a story explanation" or "explain this as a story"
  • User says "narrative summary", "tell as story", or "explain in narrative"
  • User wants content explained in conversational, engaging format
  • Need to find the most compelling narrative hook for content
  • User explicitly requests this skill
  • Want to present content in Daniel's voice
  • Format-specific requests: "story with links", "abridged story", "5-line summary", "CSE", "CSE5"
  • Slash commands: /create-story-explanation, /cse, /cse5

DO NOT use this skill when:

  • User wants comprehensive extraction (use research skill with fabric)
  • User wants quick technical summary
  • Speed matters more than narrative quality

🔀 Workflow Routing

This skill contains multiple workflows for different story explanation formats:

Available Workflows:

  1. workflows/create.md - Main 3-part narrative (default)
    • Use when: User wants standard story explanation format
    • Triggers: "create story explanation", "story explanation", default workflow
    • Output: 3-part format (opening 15-25 words → body 5-15 sentences → closing 15-25 words)

Read the full file on GitHub · 448 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. 6d ago First seen · 448 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 408f01e701dc

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story-explanation is a skill published in the GitHub repository CarbeneAI/Forge (9 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 4,240 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.

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