story-performance-and-delivery

story-performance-and-delivery is a skill for Claude Code from fatihguner/foreman. It costs 99 tokens per session (4,595 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to telling stories aloud, covering wording, tense, memorisation, eye contact, microphone use, and emotional control. It also explains how to adjust delivery for different settings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to practise talks, personal stories, success stories, pitches, and other spoken presentations.
Why use it?
It helps turn a written story into a clear spoken performance without relying on memorising every word or appearing boastful.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the foreman plugin — 142 skills, 60 commands, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to practise talks, personal stories, success stories, pitches, and other spoken presentations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fatihguner/foreman/story-performance-and-delivery
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 fatihguner/foreman --skill story-performance-and-delivery
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fatihguner/foreman

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install foreman, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 142 skills, 60 commands, 7 agents.

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Per session 99 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,595 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 $0.00099 $0.04595
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.02298
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00919
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00460

Measured 5d ago against content hash ed3b2bcd02c1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

story-performance-and-delivery 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 5d 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.

plugins/foreman/skills/story-performance-and-delivery/SKILL.md · 237 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 237 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Read runtime and advisory rules before applying this skill. Other Foreman layers and the catalog are in ../../content/, relative to this SKILL.md.

Story Performance and Delivery

The best storytellers do not perform on stages -- they perform at dinner tables, in meeting rooms, and in elevator pitches. The principles are identical. The record holder for Moth StorySLAM victories insists that the gap between a great written story and a great told story is bridged by a handful of concrete, trainable techniques: the strategic use of present tense, scene-based memorisation instead of word-for-word recitation, deliberate word selection, controlled vulnerability, and the discipline to keep talking no matter what. None of these require natural charisma. All of them require practice and intention.


The Framework

Present Tense as the Default

The present tense creates immediacy. It functions as a temporal magnet, pulling the audience out of whatever room they occupy and into whatever room the story occupies. "I'm standing in the parking lot" places the listener in that parking lot more forcefully than "I stood in the parking lot." The past tense describes. The present tense transports.

The technique is demonstrated by writing an entire chapter in real time, on an Amtrak train, while his five-year-old son refuses to use the restroom. The reader is on the train. The reader feels the rocking. The reader worries about the boy's bladder. That is the present tense at work.

When to shift to past tense:

  • Backstory. When slipping into events that precede the main narrative, the past tense signals temporal distance. A story cannot have two present-tense timelines without diluting both. The backstory is in the past; present it as such.
  • Moments best told from a distance. Not every scene benefits from the audience being pulled inside it. Some moments -- particularly those involving discomfort, vulnerability, or physical specifics -- are more effective with a layer of temporal remove.
  • Returning to present tense after backstory functions as a reset. It pulls the audience back into the primary timeline. The effect is like pressing a button on an arcade racing game: shifting the camera from an overhead view back to the driver's seat.

Read the full file on GitHub · 237 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. 5d ago First seen · 237 lines · 99 tokens per session scan A ed3b2bcd02c1

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story-performance-and-delivery is a skill published in the GitHub repository fatihguner/foreman (50 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 4,595 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-06.

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