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.
npx skills add CarbeneAI/Forge --skill storyexplanationgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CarbeneAI/ForgeWrote this? Show the measurements
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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/carbeneai/forge/storyexplanation)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/carbeneai/forge/storyexplanation"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/carbeneai/forge/storyexplanation/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/carbeneai/forge/storyexplanation"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/carbeneai/forge/storyexplanation.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once 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 |
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.
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:
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)
What ships with it
11 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.
- workflows/Create.md 8.1 KB
- workflows/CreateAbridged.md 4.6 KB
- workflows/CreateWithLinks.md 7.3 KB
- workflows/Cse.md 9.2 KB
- workflows/Cse5.md 3.7 KB
- workflows/storytelling/create-abridged.md 4.6 KB
- workflows/storytelling/create-with-links.md 9.8 KB
- workflows/storytelling/create.md 7.4 KB
- workflows/storytelling/cse.md 2.9 KB
- workflows/storytelling/cse5.md 3.7 KB
- workflows/TechnicalStorytellingGemini3.md 19 KB
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.
- 6d ago First seen · 448 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 408f01e701dc
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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