Getting it into your agent
It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danjdewhurst/story-skillsnpx agentmods add skills/danjdewhurst/story-skills/adaptationWrote 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/danjdewhurst/story-skills/adaptation)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/danjdewhurst/story-skills/adaptation"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/danjdewhurst/story-skills/adaptation/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/danjdewhurst/story-skills/adaptation"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/danjdewhurst/story-skills/adaptation.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 | $0.00182 | $0.03405 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00073 | $0.01362 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00036 | $0.00681 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00018 | $0.00341 |
Grade A, and why
adaptation 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 yesterday.
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 — 266 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Adaptation
Overview
Turn a story project into another form: an audiobook narration script, a
screenplay in Fountain, a picture-book pagination plan, a comics script, an
interactive-fiction branch map, or an edition in another language. The
story project stays the source of truth. Adaptation files live in
adaptations/ inside the project, except translations, which become their
own project folder with the same ids.
Prerequisites
A story project with story.md in the root and chapters drafted far
enough to adapt. Read story.md (title, form, language, status),
the chapter and scene records, and the character, location, and glossary
files the adaptation touches. Adapting a draft that is still changing means
redoing the adaptation; say so if status is not revising or complete.
When to Use
- Producing an audiobook: narration script, runtime estimate, pronunciation guide, narrator and production checklist
- Adapting the story to a screenplay, comics script, or interactive edition (a linear book turned into Ink or Twine)
- Planning or drafting a picture book (
form: picture-book) - Translating the book, or preparing a glossary and style sheet for a translator
- NOT for publishing metadata, print, ebook, launch, or rights deals (use
publishing); audio and film rights one-sheets live there - NOT for query letters or agent submission (use
submission) - NOT for new prose in the source book (use
chapter-writing) - NOT for writing a book that branches from the start, such as a new
choose-your-own-adventure story (use
interactive-fiction) - NOT for writing or scanning verse, including rhyming picture-book text
(use
verse-craft) - Nonfiction and poetry collections are outside the story project model.
The CLI checks fiction entities (characters, chapters, scenes,
continuity); do not force a poetry collection or nonfiction book into
it. A short-story collection does fit: see
docs/series.md, Short-story collections and anthologies.
What ships with it
6 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.
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.
- yesterday Changed 11194f68fa54
- 7d ago Changed · +2 lines ffe16394a610
- 8d ago Changed · +3 lines · +36 tokens per session 689aec0f516a
- 9d ago Changed · +9 lines c2d4f41fb101
- 13d ago Changed · +4 lines 70865250fa1c
- 18d ago Changed · +58 lines 51b7acf8f6f9
- 21d ago First seen · 190 lines · 146 tokens per session scan A 3c9958c89666
adaptation is a skill published in the GitHub repository danjdewhurst/story-skills (315 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 182 tokens to every session and 3,405 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-25.
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