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.
npx skills add Global-mindee/WAY --skill storytellinggit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Global-mindee/WAYWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/global-mindee/way/storytelling)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/global-mindee/way/storytelling"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/global-mindee/way/storytelling/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/global-mindee/way/storytelling"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/global-mindee/way/storytelling.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00068 | $0.02498 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00034 | $0.01249 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00014 | $0.00500 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00250 |
Grade A, and why
storytelling 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 2d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 140 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Storytelling
The hook earns the first 2 seconds. Storytelling earns every second after. This skill is the craft of holding attention across the body of a spoken or narrative piece — so the viewer who stopped scrolling actually finishes, and wants to share.
Six techniques. The first four do most of the work; the last two are delivery and handoff.
When this fires
- Always, on any talking-head / narrative / opinion / story-driven content (most reels, all long-form, founder stories, hot takes).
- The Dance and Rhythm apply even to tutorials and listicles — any content with a through-line benefits from open loops and varied cadence.
- Direction and Story Lens shine most on story/opinion pieces — where there's a narrative or a take to angle.
- Skip only for pure mechanical demos with zero narration ("watch me click this").
Before you write: use real material, never invent
Pull the actual beats from your own real notes, or ask the person whose story it is. Never fabricate biography — invented founder stories, fake numbers, or imagined events on someone's real account destroy the exact trust this content is built to earn. If you don't have the real beats, get them first. Structure is this skill's job; the truth is yours.
1. The Dance — context vs. conflict (the engine)
Great stories alternate context (the character is doing something) and conflict (oh no, a complication). Conflict opens a loop in the brain; context closes it — then opens the next. That dance is what keeps a viewer locked in, in a feature film or a 30-second reel.
The tactical rule (from the South Park writers): between every beat, the connector should be BUT or THEREFORE — never "and then." "And then" piles detail on detail with no tension and the viewer leaves. "But/therefore" creates the open conflict loops.
Weak — "and then" piling:
My rent doubled and then enrollment dropped and then I almost closed and then I tried a free class and then it sold out and then I added more and then now I'm booked.
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.
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.
- 2d ago Changed 35ab519257cf
- 6d ago First seen · 140 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 11fd7a441fa0
storytelling is a skill published in the GitHub repository Global-mindee/WAY (11 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 2,498 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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