stories

stories is a skill for Claude Code from kazdenc/builder-skills. It costs 74 tokens per session (1,166 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for turning product requirements into job stories or user stories that a development team can build. A job story describes a situation, the desired action, and the intended outcome.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write or break down user and job stories, map product work, and define acceptance criteria for features.
Why use it?
It makes vague requirements more concrete by explaining when a need occurs and what result matters. This gives developers clearer work to implement and verify.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it to write or break down user and job stories, map product work, and define acceptance criteria for features.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kazdenc/builder-skills/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 kazdenc/builder-skills --skill stories
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kazdenc/builder-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

agentmods badge for stories

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/kazdenc/builder-skills/stories/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/kazdenc/builder-skills/stories)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/kazdenc/builder-skills/stories"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/kazdenc/builder-skills/stories/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for stories

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/kazdenc/builder-skills/stories"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/kazdenc/builder-skills/stories.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,166 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 $0.00074 $0.01166
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00583
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00233
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00117

Measured 9d ago against content hash e737f5e25f9b, 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 9d 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.

.claude/skills/product/define/stories/SKILL.md · 100 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Job Stories & User Stories

Translate requirements into stories that a team can pick up and build. Prefer job stories over user stories — situations are more actionable than personas.

Why Job Stories Over User Stories

User stories anchor on a persona: "As a project manager..." But the same person behaves differently depending on context. A project manager at 9am triaging is doing a different job than at 3pm reporting to stakeholders.

Job stories anchor on the situation, which is what actually drives behavior.

Format Example Strength
Job story: When [situation], I want to [motivation], so I can [outcome] When I'm reviewing pull requests before standup, I want to see which ones block other work, so I can prioritize reviews that unblock the team Captures context that shapes the solution
User story: As a [role], I want to [action], so that [benefit] As a tech lead, I want to see PR priorities, so that I can review efficiently Vague on when/why this matters

Use user stories if the team is already fluent in them. Don't fight process for its own sake. But write the situation into the description either way.

Writing Good Stories

A good story is independent, negotiable, valuable, estimable, small, and testable (INVEST).

Good Bad Why it's bad
When I'm halfway through a form and get interrupted, I want my progress saved, so I can resume without re-entering data The system should auto-save forms No situation, no outcome, not testable
When I receive a notification about a price drop, I want to see the item and the new price inline, so I can decide to buy without opening the app As a user, I want push notifications Too vague, no context, no clear done state
When I'm comparing two plans side by side, I want differences highlighted, so I can spot what matters without reading every line Build a comparison table with highlighting That's a solution, not a story

Read the full file on GitHub · 100 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. 9d ago First seen · 100 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A e737f5e25f9b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

stories is a skill published in the GitHub repository kazdenc/builder-skills (45 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 1,166 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.