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 danjdewhurst/story-skills --skill worldbuildinggit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danjdewhurst/story-skillsWrote 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/worldbuilding)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/danjdewhurst/story-skills/worldbuilding"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/danjdewhurst/story-skills/worldbuilding/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/worldbuilding"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/danjdewhurst/story-skills/worldbuilding.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- Socket fail
- Snyk pass
- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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 | $0.00071 | $0.01102 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00036 | $0.00551 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00014 | $0.00220 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00110 |
Grade A, and why
worldbuilding 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 11d 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 — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Worldbuilding
Overview
Create and manage world elements for a story project. Locations, systems (magic, politics, technology, etc.), factions, and artifacts are stored as markdown files in the worldbuilding/ directory with YAML frontmatter. All elements cross-reference characters and other story elements.
Prerequisites
A story project must already exist (created via the story-init skill). Verify by checking for story.md in the project root.
Creating a Location
- Read
story.mdfor genre, era, and tone context - Read
worldbuilding/_index.mdfor existing locations and systems - Ask for the location's name and type (city, fortress, wilderness, etc.)
- Build the location through conversation, covering:
- Physical description and atmosphere
- History relevant to the story
- Culture and customs of inhabitants
- Notable features characters will interact with
- Current state at story's timeline
- Write the file using
references/location-template.md - Save to
worldbuilding/locations/{name-kebab}.md - Update
worldbuilding/_index.mdlocations table - If notable characters are listed, verify those character files exist and add this location's kebab-case identifier to each character file's
locationsfrontmatter list - When CLI access is available, run
story reindex .,story links ., andstory validate .
Creating a System
- Read
story.mdfor genre and themes context - Read
worldbuilding/_index.mdfor existing systems - Identify the system type and consult
references/world-element-types.mdfor the relevant prompts - Build the system through conversation, addressing the key questions for that type
- Write the file using
references/system-template.md - Save to
worldbuilding/systems/{name-kebab}.md - Update
worldbuilding/_index.mdsystems table - Cross-reference with characters who interact with the system (e.g., magic-users for a magic system)
- When CLI access is available, run
story reindex .,story links ., andstory validate .
What ships with it
5 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.
- 11d ago First seen · 94 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 6085390c9303
worldbuilding is a skill published in the GitHub repository danjdewhurst/story-skills (215 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 1,102 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 2026-08-30.
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