narrative-builder

narrative-builder is a skill for Claude Code from daddia/claude-for-strategy. It costs 61 tokens per session (708 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for turning raw findings or interview notes into a structured argument, using one main conclusion supported by grouped points. The structure follows the Minto pyramid, a way to present the answer first and the reasons beneath it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to shape notes into a clear storyline, presentation outline, or argument with a governing thought and supporting points.
Why use it?
It helps organize scattered evidence without hiding missing support or making unsupported claims.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the consulting plugin — 9 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to shape notes into a clear storyline, presentation outline, or argument with a governing thought and supporting points.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/daddia/claude-for-strategy/narrative-builder
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 daddia/claude-for-strategy --skill narrative-builder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/daddia/claude-for-strategy

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install consulting, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills.

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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 708 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 $0.00061 $0.00708
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00354
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00142
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00071

Measured 8d ago against content hash a8bd2b4c9476, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

narrative-builder 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.

consulting/skills/narrative-builder/SKILL.md · 89 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Narrative Builder

When to use

Turn raw input into Minto pyramid: governing thought, 3–5 MECE key line points, support bullets. See ../../references/minto-pyramid.md.

What this skill does not do

  • Does not produce prose memo/deck — skeleton for deck-outline / exec-memo.
  • Does not paper over gaps — flags unsupported governing thoughts.
  • Does not guess reader question — ask if unclear.

Preconditions

Input If missing
Raw findings/notes Ask user to provide
Reader's real question Ask before structuring
Practice profile Default inductive; flag practice-setup

Provisional mode

Thin input: governing thought flagged [review]; Known gaps section required.

Trust spine

  • Analytical Rigor (mandatory): Outline not prose; MECE gaps/overlaps named; grouping logic stated.
  • Per trust-conventions.md.

Workflow

  1. Read practice profile.
  2. State reader's question explicitly.
  3. Draft governing thought (answer, not topic).
  4. 3–5 MECE key line points; state deductive vs inductive.
  5. Support sub-bullets with so-what test.
  6. Flag structural problems in source — don't silently fix.

Output format

GOVERNING THOUGHT: [...]

1. [Key line point 1]
   - [Support]
2. [...]

Grouping logic: [deductive | inductive] — [rationale]
Known gaps / flags: [...]

Worked example

Input: Interview notes on pricing. Question: should we revert mid-tier increase?

Excerpt: Governing thought answers revert yes; three MECE key lines; gap flagged: no competitor primary research.

Quality checks before delivering

  • Governing thought is the answer
  • MECE explicit
  • Outline format, not paragraphs
  • Gaps flagged

Propose profile update

When a stable convention surfaces during this run (thresholds, naming, tone, output format, or recurring corrections), propose a profile update: show the exact diff against ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-strategy/consulting/CLAUDE.md (org-wide facts go to org-profile.md), ask for confirmation, and write only on yes. Only /consulting:practice-setup auto-applies a full profile write.

Read the full file on GitHub · 89 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 · 89 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A a8bd2b4c9476

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narrative-builder is a skill published in the GitHub repository daddia/claude-for-strategy (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 708 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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