user-story-writing

user-story-writing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from liza-mas/liza. It costs 12 tokens per session (3,293 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A method for turning broad or unclear requirements into structured user stories for coding work. Each story describes the intended user behavior and gives the coder specific acceptance criteria, meaning conditions that must be met.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write implementation-ready stories for features, capabilities, or requirements and save them as reviewed project documents.
Why use it?
It helps align the person requesting the work with the person building it and makes large requirements easier to split into focused tasks.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to write implementation-ready stories for features, capabilities, or requirements and save them as reviewed project documents.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/liza-mas/liza/user-story-writing
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 liza-mas/liza --skill user-story-writing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/liza-mas/liza

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 12 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,293 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 $0.00012 $0.03293
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.01647
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00659
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00329

Measured today against content hash ba46930493e6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

user-story-writing 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 today.

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/user-story-writing/SKILL.md · 245 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 245 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Objective

Transform high-level, fuzzy requirements into precise, well-structured user stories that an Orchestrator can decompose into coding tasks.

Stories have two audiences: first the intent owner, then the Coder. The Story Review (Part 1) lets the intent owner verify the lived user behavior in minutes. The Coder Contract (Part 2) gives the Coder implementation-ready acceptance criteria. Neither section is optional.

The output is a user story artifact — a markdown document, git-tracked, treated with the same rigor as code. One story document per task; one cohesive capability per document. A capability is the document's scope. Individual user stories are its constituent parts — each story maps to one Coder-sized unit of work.

Follow the shared Reference-First Authoring contract. This skill owns story behavior, acceptance criteria, edge cases, story-local exclusions, and new story-level decisions. It references inherited personas, NFRs, and contracts without restating them.

Trigger

Use this skill when:

  • Orchestrator creates a story-writing task (§BRAND_NAME_TITLE§ mode)
  • User asks to write user stories for a feature, capability, or requirement (Pairing mode)
  • The team's workflow uses user stories rather than formal PRD requirements

Inputs

Your task provides:

  • An output file path assigned by the Orchestrator on the blackboard
  • Anchored direct references to the assigned source sections (epic, vision doc, prior specs, existing code) and their source revision

When the source is a parent epic, read the assigned capability anchor and its declared direct references. Inherited personas, NFRs, assumptions, and open questions remain authoritative in the epic or its sources. Cite them; do not copy or contradict them.

Scope discipline (two-tier):

  • Upfront: Read the assigned anchors and declared direct references; scan existing stories in the same domain for consistency. Same domain = same parent directory, or stories referenced by the same source section. This minimal consistency check is always permitted.
  • Reviewer-driven: Broader expansion (new source material, adjacent codepaths, external docs) only when the Story Reviewer's feedback identifies specific additional material to consult.

Read the full file on GitHub · 245 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. today Changed · +13 lines ba46930493e6
  2. 13d ago First seen · 232 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A ddf43108d9f3

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user-story-writing is a skill published in the GitHub repository liza-mas/liza (387 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 3,293 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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