data-storytelling

data-storytelling is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills. It costs 25 tokens per session (5,196 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to turning data into charts and presentation stories that show the main finding clearly.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose charts, compare results, explain trends, and create data-focused presentation slides.
Why use it?
It helps audiences understand what numbers mean, how values relate, and what action the evidence supports.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to choose charts, compare results, explain trends, and create data-focused presentation slides.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills/data-storytelling
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 cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills --skill data-storytelling
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,196 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00025 $0.05196
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.02598
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.01039
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00520

Measured 8d ago against content hash 65307e7e7414, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

data-storytelling 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 8d 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.

categories/presentation/data-storytelling/SKILL.md · 562 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 562 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Data Storytelling for Slides

Turn raw data into compelling visual narratives that audiences understand, remember, and act on.

Core Principles

1. Data Without Story Is Just Numbers

A chart without context is meaningless. Every data point should serve a narrative: "Revenue grew 40% because we launched the mobile app" is a story. "Revenue was $1.2M" is just a number.

2. Show the Relationship, Not Just the Data

The best data slides reveal relationships: cause and effect, before and after, actual vs. target, you vs. competition. Comparison is the foundation of insight.

3. Maximize the Data-Ink Ratio

Remove anything in a chart that isn't data or essential context. Gridlines, borders, 3D effects, excessive labels — eliminate noise. Every pixel should either inform or guide.

4. The Audience Should Arrive at the Insight in 5 Seconds

If a viewer can't understand the key takeaway within 5 seconds, the visualization has failed. Pre-attentive attributes (color, size, position) should make the insight immediately obvious.


Data Storytelling Maturity Model

Level Chart Selection Narrative Integration Visual Design Audience Impact
1: Raw Data Default chart type, no thought No story — just numbers Default Excel/Sheets colors Confusing, ignored
2: Basic Chart Appropriate chart type Chart title describes takeaway Brand colors, clean labels Understood but forgettable
3: Annotated Right chart for the question Key points highlighted with annotations Custom colors, callouts, footnotes Remembered, shareable
4: Narrative Multi-chart flow tells a story Data + text + visuals in harmony Purposeful design, progressive disclosure Drives action and decisions
5: Immersive Interactive exploration Data narrative with branching paths Cinematic, animated, multi-perspective Changes behavior, memorable

Read the full file on GitHub · 562 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. 8d ago First seen · 562 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 65307e7e7414

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data-storytelling is a skill published in the GitHub repository cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills (471 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 5,196 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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