storytelling

storytelling is a skill for Claude Code from HirogaKatageri/hirokata. It costs 176 tokens per session (2,385 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing aid that chooses a storytelling structure for an idea, pitch, update, decision, or request, then drafts the message in that structure. Its available structures include Golden Circle, Pyramid Principle, Pixar Pitch, StoryBrand, What/So What/Now What, and ABT.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to shape board updates, team communications, customer messages, product launches, pitches, post-mortems, and other presentations.
Why use it?
It helps when the content is sound but the presentation does not fit the audience or situation. The frameworks provide different ways to organise the same kind of message.

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 to shape board updates, team communications, customer messages, product launches, pitches, post-mortems, and other presentations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hirogakatageri/hirokata/storytelling
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 storytelling
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 176 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,385 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 $0.00176 $0.02385
Opus 5 $0.00088 $0.01192
Sonnet 5 $0.00035 $0.00477
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00238

Measured 12d ago against content hash 9d61dc8faa59, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

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 12d 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/storytelling/SKILL.md · 167 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 167 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Storytelling — Pick the Right Frame, Then Make It Land

Most communication fails not because the idea is weak but because it is delivered in the wrong shape. A board wants the answer first; a team wants a reason to care; a customer wants to be the hero. This skill diagnoses the situation, picks the framework that fits, and drafts the message in it — and, when it helps, drafts it several ways at once so you can feel which one lands.

It draws on six battle-tested storytelling frameworks, each strong for a different job:

Framework Shape Strongest for
Golden Circle (Sinek) Why → How → What Rallying a team, brand & vision, "why we exist"
Pyramid Principle (Minto) Answer first → grouped evidence Boards, execs, investors, decision memos
Pixar Pitch (Coats) Once upon a time → Every day → Until finally Transformation, journeys, change stories
StoryBrand (Miller) Customer = hero, you = guide Marketing, sales, landing pages, value props
What / So What / Now What Fact → impact → action Post-mortems, retros, status, incident reviews
ABT (And, But, Therefore) Setup → tension → resolution Elevator pitch, one-liner, hook in <30s

Each framework is also a standalone skill (golden-circle, pyramid-principle, pixar-pitch, storybrand, what-so-what-now-what, abt) if the user already knows which one they want.

Workflow

Step 1 — Get the raw material (don't over-interview)

You need four things. Take whatever the user gave you and ask, in one short message, only for what's missing:

  1. The message — what are you actually trying to say? (the idea, ask, update, or point)
  2. The audience — who receives it, and what do they care about?
  3. The outcome — what should they think, feel, or do afterward?
  4. The medium & length — a Slack post? a 2-minute pitch? a keynote? a landing page? one line?

If the user already made these clear, skip the questions and go straight to Step 2.

Read the full file on GitHub · 167 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. 12d ago First seen · 167 lines · 176 tokens per session scan A 9d61dc8faa59

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storytelling is a skill published in the GitHub repository HirogaKatageri/hirokata (5 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 176 tokens to every session and 2,385 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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