user-stories

user-stories is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from shwilliamson/automatasaurus. It costs 24 tokens per session (1,187 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Writing guidance for user stories: short descriptions of who needs something, what they need, and why, with clear checks for completion.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to turn discovery findings into clear issues and acceptance criteria.
Why use it?
It prevents vague development tasks that are difficult to estimate, implement, or verify.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to turn discovery findings into clear issues and acceptance criteria.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shwilliamson/automatasaurus/user-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 shwilliamson/automatasaurus --skill user-stories
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shwilliamson/automatasaurus

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,187 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 $0.00024 $0.01187
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00593
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00237
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00119

Measured 8d ago against content hash 70cf7b8c70ef, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 8d 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.

template/skills/user-stories/SKILL.md · 193 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 193 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

User Stories Skill

This skill provides guidance for writing well-formed user stories with clear acceptance criteria.

User Story Format

As a [type of user],
I want [goal/desire],
So that [benefit/value].

Examples

Good:

As a registered user,
I want to reset my password via email,
So that I can regain access to my account if I forget my password.

Bad:

Add password reset feature.

The good example captures WHO needs it, WHAT they need, and WHY.


INVEST Criteria

Good user stories are:

Criteria Description
Independent Can be developed separately from other stories
Negotiable Details can be discussed and refined
Valuable Delivers clear value to the user
Estimable Can be sized (fits in a single PR)
Small Implementable in one PR, not weeks of work
Testable Has clear acceptance criteria to verify

Checking Your Stories

  • Independent: Does this require other stories to be done first? If so, document the dependency.
  • Negotiable: Is there flexibility in HOW this is implemented?
  • Valuable: Can you explain the user benefit?
  • Estimable: Is it clear enough to implement?
  • Small: Could this be done in 1-3 days? If not, break it down.
  • Testable: Can you write acceptance criteria?

Acceptance Criteria

Acceptance criteria define WHEN a story is complete. They should be:

  • Specific: Clear, unambiguous conditions
  • Measurable: Can be verified as pass/fail
  • Complete: Cover the happy path AND edge cases

Format

Use checkbox format for easy verification:

## Acceptance Criteria
- [ ] User can request password reset with their email
- [ ] Reset link is sent to registered email only
- [ ] Reset link expires after 1 hour
- [ ] User sees error message for unregistered email
- [ ] User can set new password via reset link
- [ ] Old password no longer works after reset

Read the full file on GitHub · 193 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. 8d ago First seen · 193 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 70cf7b8c70ef

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user-stories is a skill published in the GitHub repository shwilliamson/automatasaurus (5 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 1,187 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 2026-08-31.

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