doughnut: Skill for Claude Code

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story-refinement is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nerds-odd-e/doughnut. It costs 59 tokens per session (613 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided discussion for clarifying a selected development story before planning its implementation. A story describes a user or business need and the change that should result.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to clarify what a story should achieve, what is outside its scope, and how it should behave in specific situations. Larger problems may need to be split into smaller stories first.
Why use it?
It prevents broad or unclear work from entering implementation with hidden assumptions. It separates the goal, boundaries, exclusions, and concrete examples that define the smallest useful outcome.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is nerds-odd-e/doughnut's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on doughnut itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything doughnut configures →

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00059 $0.00613
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00307
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00123
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00061

Measured yesterday against content hash c01f78afe5f0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

story-refinement 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.

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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.

.agents/skills/story-refinement/SKILL.md · 64 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 64 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Story Refinement

Build shared understanding of one selected story, or several related stories whose boundaries need discussion. Follow .cursor/rules/planning.mdc for scope discipline and lifecycle. Resolve repository paths from the checkout containing this skill.

Refine through conversation

Read the selected stories and relevant prior discussion. Reuse answers already given; ask only questions that change understanding, with a concise proposed answer. Do not turn the following into a questionnaire or mandatory approval ceremony. Mark unresolved decisions explicitly; do not present proposals as developer decisions.

For each story, establish:

  • Goal: beneficiary, desired change, and its contribution to the business goal. Keep this story's observable outcome distinct from the broader ambition.
  • Scope: included behavior, relevant exclusions, and boundary assumptions. Prefer the smallest useful outcome; exclude uncertain additions and report them. Clarify when exclusion would prevent the stated outcome from working.
  • Key examples: concrete pre-condition → trigger → result situations that explain the scope. Include boundaries or exceptions when they resolve ambiguity; do not enumerate a complete test suite.

Add UI descriptions or sketches only when interaction or presentation needs agreement. Add Architecture only for a new consequential concern; consult adr-awareness and relevant Accepted ADRs. Inspect existing behavior or code only to resolve a concrete question, without turning refinement into technical planning. Omit unused optional sections.

A story may cross features. When refining several stories, keep each outcome and boundary separate; do not merge them into one delivery by implication. Use story-decomposition if the parent problem or candidate selection needs reconsideration.

Keep the understanding in the story's home

Expand each existing story section in its home seed with Goal, Scope, and Key examples, plus optional details above. Replace overlapping detail; preserve story anchors, sibling stories, and seed metadata. Record only open questions that affect this story. If no home exists, establish one under .planning/seeds/ using the story-decomposition seed format.

Read the full file on GitHub · 64 lines

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  1. yesterday First seen · 64 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A c01f78afe5f0

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story-refinement is a skill published in the GitHub repository nerds-odd-e/doughnut (49 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 613 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-06.

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