pixar-pitch

pixar-pitch is a skill for Claude Code from HirogaKatageri/hirokata. It costs 128 tokens per session (1,184 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A story structure for describing change: a starting situation, a normal routine, a disruption, its consequences, and a new outcome. It is based on the story pattern associated with Pixar films.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for before-and-after stories, product origins, case studies, transformation narratives, and journeys through change.
Why use it?
It helps readers follow a transformation as a chain of events instead of receiving disconnected facts about the before and after.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the storytelling plugin — 7 skills, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it for before-and-after stories, product origins, case studies, transformation narratives, and journeys through change.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hirogakatageri/hirokata/pixar-pitch
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 HirogaKatageri/hirokata --skill pixar-pitch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HirogaKatageri/hirokata

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install storytelling, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 2 agents.

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Per session 128 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,184 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 $0.00128 $0.01184
Opus 5 $0.00064 $0.00592
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00237
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00118

Measured 11d ago against content hash f46105f3e03e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pixar-pitch 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 11d 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/storytelling/skills/pixar-pitch/SKILL.md · 97 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

The Pixar Pitch — Once Upon a Time, Until Finally

Emma Coats, former Pixar storyboard artist (rule #4 of her "22 Rules of Storytelling"). Every Pixar film hangs on the same skeleton — a stable world, a change that upends it, escalating consequences, and a new normal. It's the most natural shape for any story of transformation.

The Spine

Once upon a time there was ___. Every day, ___. One day, ___. Because of that, ___. Because of that, ___. Until finally, ___.

Beat by beat:

  1. Once upon a time — the setup: who/what this is about, the starting world.
  2. Every day — the status quo, the stable-but-flawed normal. (This is where the problem quietly lives.)
  3. One day — the inciting incident: the change, insight, decision, or disruption that breaks the routine. This is the hinge of the whole pitch.
  4. Because of that — the first consequence. Cause and effect, not a jump-cut.
  5. Because of that — the escalation; stakes rise. (Repeatable — chain as many as the story needs.)
  6. Until finally — the resolution: the new world, the payoff, the transformation complete.

The post's short version — "Once upon a time. Every day. Until finally." — is the compressed three-beat form: status quo → turn → new reality. Use the full spine when you have room to build cause and effect.

When to use it (and when not)

Use it for: transformation stories, product origin and journey narratives, customer case studies (their world before → after you), change-management and vision-of-the-future comms, fundraising "here's the world we're building" arcs, conference talk openers.

Reach for something else when: the audience wants the decision first (→ pyramid-principle), it's a factual debrief (→ what-so-what-now-what), or you need one punchy line (→ abt). The Pixar Pitch trades speed for emotional arc — don't use it when there's no real "before and after".

How to build it

  1. Find the transformation. What was the world like before, and what is it like after? If nothing genuinely changes, this isn't the right frame.
  2. Make "Every day" ache a little. The status quo should carry the unspoken problem so the turn feels earned.
  3. Nail the "One day". One clear inciting moment. Vague turns produce flat pitches.
  4. Chain "Because of that". Consequences must follow causally — earned, not listed.
  5. Land "Until finally" on the payoff, ideally echoing the ache from "Every day".

Read the full file on GitHub · 97 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. 11d ago First seen · 97 lines · 128 tokens per session scan A f46105f3e03e

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pixar-pitch is a skill published in the GitHub repository HirogaKatageri/hirokata (5 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 128 tokens to every session and 1,184 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-31.

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