user-story-mapping

user-story-mapping is a skill for Claude Code from derricktang/pm-workflow-plugin. It costs 38 tokens per session (2,646 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of user-story-mapping, MIT.

A visual map of how users move through a product, from broad activities to specific steps and tasks. It also groups tasks into an MVP or later releases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan workflows, organize feature ideas around user goals, and divide work into release slices.
Why use it?
It gives product, design, and engineering teams a shared view of the user journey before they create a backlog. This helps reveal missing parts and decide what to build first.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the pm plugin — 9 skills, 6 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan workflows, organize feature ideas around user goals, and divide work into release slices.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/derricktang/pm-workflow-plugin/user-story-mapping
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 derricktang/pm-workflow-plugin --skill user-story-mapping
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/derricktang/pm-workflow-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pm, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 6 commands.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,646 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 98% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00038 $0.02646
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01323
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00529
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00265

Measured 7d ago against content hash b0fdcdb21fd3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

user-story-mapping 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 7d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

98% identical to user-story-mapping — 3 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/pm/pm-workflow/skills/user-story-mapping/SKILL.md · 289 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 289 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

Visualize the user journey by creating a hierarchical map that breaks down high-level activities into steps and tasks, organized left-to-right as a narrative flow. Use this to build shared understanding across product, design, and engineering, prioritize features based on user workflows, and identify gaps or opportunities in the user experience.

This is not a backlog—it's a strategic artifact that shows how users accomplish their goals, which then informs what to build.

Key Concepts

The Jeff Patton Story Mapping Framework

Invented by Jeff Patton, story mapping organizes work into a 2D structure:

Horizontal axis (left-to-right): User journey over time

  • Backbone: High-level activities the user performs
  • Steps: Specific actions within each activity
  • Tasks: Detailed work required to complete each step

Vertical axis (top-to-bottom): Priority and releases

  • Top rows: Essential tasks (MVP / Release 1)
  • Lower rows: Nice-to-have tasks (Future releases)

Story Map Structure

Segment → Persona → Narrative (User's goal)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[Activity 1] → [Activity 2] → [Activity 3] → [Activity 4] → [Activity 5]
     ↓              ↓              ↓              ↓              ↓
  [Step 1.1]     [Step 2.1]     [Step 3.1]     [Step 4.1]     [Step 5.1]
  [Step 1.2]     [Step 2.2]     [Step 3.2]     [Step 4.2]     [Step 5.2]
  [Step 1.3]     [Step 2.3]     [Step 3.3]     [Step 4.3]     [Step 5.3]
     ↓              ↓              ↓              ↓              ↓
  [Task 1.1.1]   [Task 2.1.1]   [Task 3.1.1]   [Task 4.1.1]   [Task 5.1.1]
  [Task 1.1.2]   [Task 2.1.2]   [Task 3.1.2]   [Task 4.1.2]   [Task 5.1.2]
  [Task 1.1.3]   [Task 2.1.3]   [Task 3.1.3]   [Task 4.1.3]   [Task 5.1.3]
  ...            ...            ...            ...            ...

Why This Works

  • User-centric: Organizes work around user goals, not engineering modules
  • Shared understanding: Product, design, engineering all see the same journey
  • Prioritization clarity: Top tasks = MVP, lower tasks = future iterations
  • Gap identification: Missing steps or tasks become obvious
  • Release planning: Draw horizontal "release lines" to define scope

Read the full file on GitHub · 289 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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.

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. 7d ago First seen · 289 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A b0fdcdb21fd3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

user-story-mapping is a skill published in the GitHub repository derricktang/pm-workflow-plugin (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 2,646 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 98% identical to user-story-mapping, differing in 3 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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