writing-user-stories

writing-user-stories is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nicepkg/ai-workflow. It costs 17 tokens per session (243 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for writing user stories: short requirements that state who needs something, what they want to do, and why. It uses the format “As a person, I want an action, so that I get a benefit.”

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define tasks, describe features, plan work, and record requirements in a form that identifies the user and the reason for the change.
Why use it?
It turns vague feature ideas into a consistent format that developers and stakeholders can discuss. The stated benefit keeps the team focused on the user's outcome.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the writing-user-stories plugin — 1 skill shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nicepkg/ai-workflow/writing-user-stories
Any agent
npx skills add nicepkg/ai-workflow --skill writing-user-stories
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nicepkg/ai-workflow

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install writing-user-stories, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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README.md
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Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 243 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00017 $0.00243
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00121
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00049
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00024

Measured yesterday against content hash 1da78b0d4444, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

writing-user-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.

workflows/product-manager-workflow/.claude/skills/writing-user-stories/SKILL.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

Writing User Stories

Overview

Help Claude and subagents write properly formatted user stories for task definition.

Core principle: User stories are formulaic ways of expressing user requirements. They identify the perosna of the actor, what they want to do, and what benefit are they hoping to gain from their actions.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

  • You are asked to write a user story
  • You are asked to plan a feature

User Story Format

As a PERSONA I want to DESCRIPTION_OF_ACTION So that DESCRIPTION_OF_BENEFIT.

Examples

As a non-technical stakeholder, I want to understand what changed in a release without reading code diffs so that I can communicate updates to customers effectively.

As a new user, I want to see examples of AI-generated code before connecting my repository so that I understand the value proposition before committing to integration.

As a home cook, I want to see that recipes have been tested by professional chefs so that I can know whether they are worth trying.

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. yesterday First seen · 38 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 1da78b0d4444

Subscribe to this mod's changes

writing-user-stories is a skill published in the GitHub repository nicepkg/ai-workflow (283 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 243 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 2026-09-03.

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