story-structure-and-arc

story-structure-and-arc is a skill for Claude Code from fatihguner/foreman. It costs 81 tokens per session (4,239 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to building stories around a clear moment of change. It explains how surface events support deeper character or idea transformation and how “But” and “Therefore” connect events.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to shape story structure, strengthen a founder’s narrative, and create momentum between events.
Why use it?
It helps when a pitch, presentation, or other narrative contains good material but feels flat or lacks forward movement.

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 shape story structure, strengthen a founder’s narrative, and create momentum between events.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fatihguner/foreman/story-structure-and-arc
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-structure-and-arc
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 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,239 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 $0.00081 $0.04239
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.02119
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00848
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00424

Measured 5d ago against content hash ee849e60446f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

story-structure-and-arc 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-structure-and-arc/SKILL.md · 232 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 232 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 Structure and Arc

FIVE SECONDS -- Jurassic Park is not a dinosaur movie. Every great story is actually about a five-second moment of change, and all the rest is scaffolding.

Steven Spielberg spent sixty-three million dollars rendering velociraptors, brachiosaurs, and a Tyrannosaurus rex so lifelike that audiences forgot they were watching computer-generated images. Yet the moment in the film that audiences remember most, the scene that gives the story its emotional weight, contains no dinosaurs at all. It is a man sitting in a tree with two sleeping children, letting a fossilised raptor claw fall from his hand. Alan Grant, who despised children at the start of the film, has evolved. Five seconds. Story over.

The entire storytelling architecture rests on this observation. Every great story -- regardless of length, depth, or tone -- exists to deliver a single moment of transformation. That moment lasts about five seconds. Everything else in the narrative is infrastructure designed to bring that moment to the greatest possible clarity. The dinosaurs, the car chases, the market data, the product demos -- these are not the story. They are the scaffolding that makes the five-second moment land.

The second structural principle is equally counterintuitive: the words that connect one scene to the next matter more than the scenes themselves. Replace "and then" with "but" and "therefore," and a flat recitation of events transforms into a narrative with momentum, surprise, and causation. These two principles -- the five-second moment and the But and Therefore technique -- form the load-bearing structure of any story worth telling.


The Framework

The Five-Second Moment

All stories are about tiny moments. The purpose of every other element -- character, setting, conflict, humour, suspense -- is to deliver the audience to that moment with maximum emotional clarity.

Read the full file on GitHub · 232 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 · 232 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A ee849e60446f

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story-structure-and-arc is a skill published in the GitHub repository fatihguner/foreman (50 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 4,239 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 2026-09-06.

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