storythis

storythis is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jjdmev2/dme-skills. It costs 237 tokens per session (2,594 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A handoff tool that turns completed design or specification work into appropriately sized Linear projects and issues. Linear is a project-management app used to organise work for development teams.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a value-focused project, a shared design issue, and code-verified build stories when those pieces are appropriate. Small changes can instead become a single issue.
Why use it?
It gives developers who were not part of the design process a clear, prioritised description of what to build without creating unnecessary work items.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for gstack. Also seen: built for gstack.

Good fit Use it to create a value-focused project, a shared design issue, and code-verified build stories when those pieces are appropriate. Small changes can instead become a single issue.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jjdmev2/dme-skills/storythis
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 jjdmev2/dme-skills --skill storythis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jjdmev2/dme-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 237 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,594 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 $0.00237 $0.02594
Opus 5 $0.00118 $0.01297
Sonnet 5 $0.00047 $0.00519
Haiku 4.5 $0.00024 $0.00259

Measured 11d ago against content hash 5aefb78d7b5b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

storythis 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.

storythis/SKILL.md · 170 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 170 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

storythis

You just finished a design (a feature, a redesign, a spec — on a branch, in a doc, or in this very session) and now you're handing it to the dev team to build. Your job is to land it in Linear as the right structure — no code — so a dev who wasn't in the room can pick it up cold, and a lead can prioritize.

This is NOT /linearthis. /linearthis shapes a fuzzy idea into an Epic-issue → sub-issues tree for the person who'll build it themselves (then /ccthis). /storythis is the designer→dev handoff of already- designed work, with heavier conventions: value-framed Projects, a shared design issue as the source of truth, and lean, code-verified build stories. If the user actually wants to brainstorm a raw idea, point them to /linearthis (or gstack /office-hours) first.

Work the phases in order. Each is independent — if a tool or step fails, do the rest and say so; never silently skip. Never write code. Requires the Linear MCP (/mcp to log in).


Phase 0 — Right-size the structure (the adaptive core — do this first)

Do NOT assume "project + design issue + stories." Decide what actually fits, and default to the lightest structure that does the job. Derive from the input; ask only what you genuinely can't infer.

Situation Create
A whole feature/area, several stories, wants an owner-facing home + prioritization Project (epic) + design issue + build stories
A self-contained change (fits one PR, a couple of ACs) One issue (fold design + build) — no project, no separate design issue
The design already lives somewhere (a design issue, a doc, a branch) Skip creating a design issue — point the stories' blockedBy at the existing one
A project already exists for this area Add to it — don't make a duplicate (list_projects to find it)
Just capturing rough ideas / a wishlist Backlog issues only, Low priority, each marked "idea / needs design / not critical"
Two+ distinct sub-areas (e.g. Users vs Groups) Two projects sharing one design issue (stories blockedBy it cross-project is fine)

Read the full file on GitHub · 170 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 · 170 lines · 237 tokens per session scan A 5aefb78d7b5b

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storythis is a skill published in the GitHub repository jjdmev2/dme-skills (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 237 tokens to every session and 2,594 once invoked, about $0.0012 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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