stories

stories is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jstoup111/ai-conductor. It costs 45 tokens per session (2,928 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow step that turns approved product or technical plans into small behavior-focused stories with acceptance criteria, including success and failure cases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after architecture approval to create `.docs/stories` artifacts from product requirements or technical changes, including scenarios for test-driven development (TDD), a method of writing tests before code.
Why use it?
It makes the expected result explicit before implementation and gives the team a clear definition of done.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it after architecture approval to create .docs/stories artifacts from product requirements or technical changes, including scenarios for test-driven development (TDD), a method of writing tests before code.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jstoup111/ai-conductor/stories
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 jstoup111/ai-conductor --skill stories
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jstoup111/ai-conductor

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,928 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 $0.00045 $0.02928
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01464
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00586
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00293

Measured yesterday against content hash daa6c0d3830a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

stories 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 yesterday.

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.

skills/stories/SKILL.md · 209 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 209 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

Generates granular stories with happy and negative path scenarios, and is the always-present acceptance-criteria artifact for both tracks:

  • Product track — extract stories from the approved PRD's enumerated functional requirements (FR-N); each FR is a unit.
  • Technical track — no PRD; write technical stories (Given/When/Then against the technical change) from the technical intent + the approved architecture.

Stories run after architecture-review (the design is known), so they describe behavior (WHAT) grounded in the agreed design — but they state observable behavior/acceptance, NOT the mechanism (architecture informs which scenarios exist; it is not copied as mechanism into story text — the how is the plan's job). Negative paths are mandatory — they feed TDD RED phases.

Read the Scope boundary: from .docs/track/<slug>.md as binding; preserve the confirmed narrow/comprehensive breadth outcome; do not permit a materially broader expansion beyond it unless the operator confirms before it enters the artifact.

Correctness gate: acceptance criteria become the definition of done. Apply the /verify-claims protocol — if a scenario encodes an assumption about expected behavior that was never confirmed (against the FR, the ADR, or the operator), flag it with its confidence and HARD-BLOCK for approval (HALT if autonomous) rather than baking the guess into a Given/When/Then.

Architecture-induced negatives (do not miss these): because stories follow architecture, every failure mode a design decision introduces (an external call that times out, a queue that drops/dupes, a lock that contends) MUST appear as a negative-path story. These are exactly the cases that were missed when stories preceded the design.

If writing stories reveals a genuine structural gap the design lacks (a missing component/seam), do not paper over it in story text — kick back to architecture (which re-opens in amendment mode).

Documentation boundary

Read the full file on GitHub · 209 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. yesterday Changed · +5 lines daa6c0d3830a
  2. 9d ago First seen · 204 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 4253df188f3e

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stories is a skill published in the GitHub repository jstoup111/ai-conductor (7 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 2,928 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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