storm-engine

storm-engine is a skill for Claude Code from FradSer/dotclaude. It costs 53 tokens per session (2,054 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

The shared rulebook for the STORM article pipeline, a four-step process of research, outlining, writing, and polishing. It defines where work is stored, when each phase may run, and how citations must be handled.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it internally when running STORM commands so phases can resume, sources remain traceable, and unsupported citations are not invented.
Why use it?
It keeps the separate article commands consistent and prevents later stages from running without the files and research they need.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the storm plugin — 5 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it internally when running STORM commands so phases can resume, sources remain traceable, and unsupported citations are not invented.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fradser/dotclaude/engine
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 FradSer/dotclaude --skill engine
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/FradSer/dotclaude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install storm, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 1 agent.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,054 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 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 $0.00053 $0.02054
Opus 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00822
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00411
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00205

Measured 22d ago against content hash e2126079af35, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

storm-engine 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 22d 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.

storm/skills/engine/SKILL.md · 144 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 144 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

STORM Engine

Internal knowledge for the STORM plugin. Encodes the methodology ported from Stanford STORM (NAACL'24 / EMNLP'24) into a Claude-native pipeline. Loaded automatically by every /storm:* skill.

CRITICAL: Two-Stage Pipeline

The pipeline has two stages and four phases. Each phase is independently runnable and resumable — completed phases are loaded from the artifact directory, never re-run.

Stage 1 (Pre-writing)        Stage 2 (Writing)
  research  --------->  outline  --------->  write  --------->  polish
   (persona               (draft +            (per-section,        (summary +
    discovery,            refine from         cited, parallel)     dedup)
    simulated Q&A,        research)
    information table)

NEVER skip stage 1. An article generated from parametric memory alone is not a STORM article — it will hallucinate citations and miss the multi-perspective grounding that defines the method. If research/ is absent, run /storm:research first.

NEVER invent citations. Every inline [n] must map to an entry in sources.json collected during research. If a section has no supporting sources, write it without citations and flag the gap in the polish phase — do not fabricate a reference.

CRITICAL: Artifact Layout

All phases read from and write to a single per-topic directory:

<output_dir>/<slug>/
  research/
    personas.json          # discovered personas (name + perspective + rationale)
    conversations.jsonl   # one record per (persona, turn): question, queries, snippets, answer
    sources.json          # deduplicated Information objects: {id, title, url, description, snippets}
  outline.md              # refined outline (markdown headings)
  outline-draft.md        # pre-research draft (kept for reference)
  article.md              # per-section draft with inline [n] citations
  article-polished.md     # final polished article
  run-config.json         # snapshot of run parameters

Stage-gating contract: a phase is considered complete when its primary artifact exists and is non-empty. Before running a phase, check its output artifact:

Read the full file on GitHub · 144 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. 22d ago First seen · 144 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A e2126079af35

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storm-engine is a skill published in the GitHub repository FradSer/dotclaude (593 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 2,054 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-24.

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