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.
npx skills add kalyvask/winning-writing --skill yourself-storygit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kalyvask/winning-writingWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/kalyvask/winning-writing/yourself-story)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/kalyvask/winning-writing/yourself-story"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/kalyvask/winning-writing/yourself-story/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/kalyvask/winning-writing/yourself-story"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/kalyvask/winning-writing/yourself-story.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00167 | $0.03306 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00084 | $0.01653 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00033 | $0.00661 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00017 | $0.00331 |
Grade A, and why
yourself-story 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 211 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Yourself story
Source: Adam Bryant's Corner Office column (NYT) interviews with 500+ CEOs on what they look for in candidates, plus Lauren Weinstein's GSB research on the two-axis model of social judgment, plus a set of model bios taught in Glenn Kramon's Winning Writing class.
The goal
Bryant's rule for any "about you" piece:
"Make the CEO want to have a beer with you — and hire you."
The two halves of the sentence are not the same thing. Beer is warmth; hire is competence. A bio that nails one and misses the other fails. Aim for ~50/50 word-count split between the two.
The two-axis bar (Weinstein / Fiske)
Weinstein's GSB research, building on Susan Fiske's Princeton work on social judgment: two qualities account for more than 90% of the first impression you form of a person.
- Warmth — the ability to create an authentic connection and create trust
- Competence — the ability to inspire confidence in you
A first impression made in roughly one second sticks. The bio is the first impression you control. Score high on both axes or don't ship.
The 10 rules (Bryant + Kramon + Roizen + Weinstein)
1. Know your audience
Same rule, every skill. A bio for a VC is not a bio for a hiring manager. Customize. The phrase "I'm building a tactile-sensor company" is the right opener for the right reader; the wrong opener for the wrong one.
2. Be vivid
Picture your favorite movie scene. Describe it in words. That's the texture you want in a bio. Bring it to life. Make it memorable. A bio that opens with sensory detail (a place, a date, an action, an image) lands; one that opens with summary doesn't.
3. Quotes enliven
A line of dialogue from your mother, your mentor, your boss the day you got fired — the quote is a free dose of warmth. One specific quoted line, properly placed, is worth a paragraph of description. Use sparingly: one quote per piece is enough.
4. Humor is non-negotiable (Kramon's class rule)
Dry humor. Not slapstick. A line that makes the reader smile is the difference between memorable and forgettable. The best version of this is a single observational aside dropped after a serious claim — the seriousness earns the credibility, the aside earns the warmth.
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 211 lines · 167 tokens per session scan A efde31aa4342
yourself-story is a skill published in the GitHub repository kalyvask/winning-writing (13 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 167 tokens to every session and 3,306 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-08-30.
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