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 sammcj/agentic-coding --skill storytelling-narrativegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sammcj/agentic-codingWrote 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.
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/sammcj/agentic-coding/storytelling-narrative"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sammcj/agentic-coding/storytelling-narrative.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- high Anti-Refusal · line 186 Skill instructs the agent to omit warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Stripping safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.Fix: Remove instructions that suppress warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Let the agent surface safety-relevant caveats to the user.
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 | $0.00058 | $0.03179 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00029 | $0.01589 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00012 | $0.00636 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00318 |
Grade B, and why
storytelling-narrative scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 5d 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.
Strips warnings and disclaimersmediumAnti-refusal
Omitting safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.
- **Don't lecture the user about narrative theory.** They want help with their content, not a lesson. Apply the lens silently; surface only what they need to make decisions. How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 189 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Storytelling & Narrative
Help the user build, refine, or restructure a narrative for a business artefact: slide deck, blog post, pitch, exec memo, article, or report. The skill is format-agnostic at its core. Format-specific notes live in references/formats.md.
The user is a domain expert. They usually know the material deeply or have rough touchpoints in mind. What they're missing is structure, flow, and a clear through-line. Your job is to help them surface what's already there and shape it, not to invent narrative from nothing or layer marketing language on top.
Operating principles
Lenses, not templates. Storytelling frameworks (Pixar, ABT, Three-Act, StoryBrand, Hero's Journey, Golden Circle, SCQA, Pyramid Principle, Dykes Arc, Duarte Sparkline) are different surface arrangements of the same underlying primitives: status quo, tension, stakes, turn, resolution. Treat named frameworks as lenses to check a story against, not templates to fill in. Pick a lens when it fits the audience-goal-material combination - never force material into a framework that doesn't match.
Narrative comes from the material, not a script. Most business storytelling failures aren't structural - they're the result of not engaging with the material long enough to find what's actually there. Spend real time in Phase 2 (engaging the material) before reaching for any framework.
Anti-slop posture. No marketing adjectives, no hot takes, no cliche verbiage or buzzwords. Concrete nouns over abstract ones. Specific people, specific moments, specific numbers. If a sentence could appear in any company's blog post, rewrite it.
Pause when there's a real fork; proceed when there isn't. Use multi-choice questions (the AskUserQuestion tool) when the user genuinely needs to steer - multiple plausible spines, multiple framework lenses, multiple orderings, output-mode choice. Don't pause on small calls or things you can infer with confidence. The user has explicitly said: increase autonomy when you have understanding, ask when you don't.
What ships with it
4 files 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.
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.
- 5d ago First seen · 189 lines · 58 tokens per session scan B a467c7258ad8
storytelling-narrative is a skill published in the GitHub repository sammcj/agentic-coding (160 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 3,179 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (strips warnings and disclaimers). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.
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