user-story-mapping

user-story-mapping is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from getcrew44/crew44. It costs 38 tokens per session (2,610 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for creating a user story map, a visual layout of how people complete a workflow and which parts should be delivered first. It arranges activities and tasks in journey order, then groups them into priority-based releases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan an MVP, organize a workflow, prioritize backlog items, and divide product work into meaningful releases.
Why use it?
A flat backlog can hide how features fit together and what users need for a complete workflow. Story mapping shows the bigger picture and helps identify gaps and a practical first release.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to plan an MVP, organize a workflow, prioritize backlog items…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/getcrew44/crew44/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 getcrew44/crew44 --skill user-story-mapping
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/getcrew44/crew44

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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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 2,610 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 $0.00038 $0.02610
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01305
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00522
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00261

Measured 3d ago against content hash 2c48ae3dab9b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 3d 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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

daemon/internal/presets/defaultcrew/skills/product/user-story-mapping/SKILL.md · 286 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 286 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 · 286 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. 3d ago First seen · 286 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 2c48ae3dab9b

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user-story-mapping is a skill published in the GitHub repository getcrew44/crew44 (359 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 2,610 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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