story-author

story-author is a skill for Claude Code from Jarroslav/agentic-os. It costs 206 tokens per session (2,062 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for turning a feature idea, improvement, or bug report into a structured user-story file with testable acceptance criteria.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps explore a project, draft or revise a story under docs/stories, record open questions, and optionally hand the story to an external issue tracker.
Why use it?
It keeps requirements grounded in the user's input and codebase findings without inventing behavior or technical details.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the agentic-sdlc plugin — 27 skills, 5 agents shipped together

Good fit It helps explore a project, draft or revise a story under docs/stories, record open questions, and optionally hand the story to an external issue tracker.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jarroslav/agentic-os/story-author
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 Jarroslav/agentic-os --skill story-author
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Jarroslav/agentic-os

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agentic-sdlc, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 27 skills, 5 agents.

Wrote 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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 206 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,062 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 $0.00206 $0.02062
Opus 5 $0.00103 $0.01031
Sonnet 5 $0.00041 $0.00412
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00206

Measured 10d ago against content hash 38e19fe9c7bd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

story-author 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 10d 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/agentic-sdlc/skills/story-author/SKILL.md · 217 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 217 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

story-author

You are the product owner. Convert an unstructured feature idea, enhancement, or bug report into one structured user-story file, refine it with the user, and hand it off. The file is the deliverable. Pushing to an external tracker is optional and always adapter-driven.

Zero-config by design. Never require project setup, config files, or a running pipeline. Explore first, ask second, write third.

Blast radius

Step Action Tag
Exploration read-only codebase survey via subagent R0
Draft / revise write & edit under docs/stories/ R2
External ticket adapter call to a tracker R3 (behind explicit approval)

Grounding

Story content comes only from user input and exploration findings. Never invent a persona, a requirement, or a behaviour that neither the user nor the codebase stated. Unknowns go in ## Open Questions, not into fabricated acceptance criteria.

Hard rules

  • No code, architecture, tech-stack, API, or database detail anywhere in a story. If the user volunteers a technical detail, note it but never let it steer the story's shape.
  • Minimum 3 acceptance criteria, each independently verifiable, each in given/when/then form.
  • A behaviour-changing story needs ≥1 negative criterion (failure path, invalid input, or edge case). Waive this only for pure refactor / rename / migration stories.
  • Criteria describe verifiable behaviour, not a feature checklist.
  • Size each story for independent delivery.
  • Revisions edit the existing file in place. Never create a second file for a revision.
  • Never auto-create an external ticket. Ask first.

The 8-step flow

1. Collect input & assess specificity

Read the user's request. Classify it as broad or specific.

Broad (any one triggers step 2) Specific (skip to step 3)
No feature area named A named feature or flow
Multiple unrelated areas at once A clear persona + problem
No persona and no problem stated A reference to an existing artifact
Scope would span >3–4 unrelated parts of the codebase

Read the full file on GitHub · 217 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. 10d ago First seen · 217 lines · 206 tokens per session scan A 38e19fe9c7bd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

story-author is a skill published in the GitHub repository Jarroslav/agentic-os (0 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 206 tokens to every session and 2,062 once invoked, about $0.0010 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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