story-arcs

story-arcs is a skill for Claude Code from gtapps/claude-code-hermit. It costs 58 tokens per session (849 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for tracking developing news topics, called story arcs, across written briefs. It lets you add, resolve, and list those ongoing topics.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to record a developing story, attach watch words and context, mark it resolved, or review active arcs.
Why use it?
It keeps recurring topics organized so later feed summaries can connect related coverage.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the feed-hermit plugin — 7 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to record a developing story, attach watch words and context, mark it resolved, or review active arcs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gtapps/claude-code-hermit/story-arcs
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 gtapps/claude-code-hermit --skill story-arcs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gtapps/claude-code-hermit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install feed-hermit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 1 agent.

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README.md
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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 849 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 $0.00058 $0.00849
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00425
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00170
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00085

Measured 4d ago against content hash 6a132ccc17b2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

story-arcs 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 4d 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/feed-hermit/skills/story-arcs/SKILL.md · 92 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Story Arcs

Manage the developing-story-arcs file that feeds the feed-brief arc-tagging enrichment.

Usage

/story-arcs add "<name>" [--started <YYYY-MM-DD>] [--watch "<keywords>"] [--context "<text>"]
/story-arcs resolve "<name>" [--reason "<resolution note>"]
/story-arcs list

Steps

1. Find the active arcs file

Glob .claude-code-hermit/compiled/story-arcs-*.md. Sort by filename date suffix descending (newest first). Read the most recent. If none exists, create .claude-code-hermit/compiled/story-arcs-<today>.md with the standard template (frontmatter + ## Active + ## Recently Resolved sections).

2. Execute subcommand

add

Parse: name (required), --started (default: today, prefixed with ~), --watch (optional keyword list), --context (optional description).

  1. Check ## Active — if an arc with the same name already exists (case-insensitive), say so and stop.
  2. Append a new arc block at the end of ## Active:
    **<name>** (started: ~<YYYY-MM-DD>)
    <context text, or "Newly surfaced — add context as it develops.">
    Watch: <watch keywords separated by semicolons, or "TBD">.
    
  3. Write the file in-place. Reply: Arc added: **<name>**. Update the Watch clause with /story-arcs if needed.
resolve

Parse: name (required, case-insensitive substring match), --reason (optional).

  1. Find the arc block in ## Active. If not found, list close matches and stop.
  2. Remove the full arc block (the **Name** (started:...) line + context line + Watch line).
  3. Insert a one-line entry at the top of ## Recently Resolved:
    **<name>** — <reason, or "resolved">. <today's date>
    
  4. Write the file in-place. Reply: Arc resolved: **<name>**. It will no longer be matched in future briefs.
list
  1. Display all arcs under ## Active as a compact table: Name, start date, Watch keywords.
  2. Show the count of ## Recently Resolved entries.
  3. If ## Active is empty, say "No active arcs."

Read the full file on GitHub · 92 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. 4d ago First seen · 92 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 6a132ccc17b2

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story-arcs is a skill published in the GitHub repository gtapps/claude-code-hermit (74 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 849 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.