star-story-extractor

star-story-extractor is a skill for Claude Code from squerne/open-career-skills. It costs 77 tokens per session (905 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool that turns an informal account of a work experience into a STAR interview story. STAR means Situation, Task, Action, and Result—the four parts commonly used to answer behavioral interview questions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to turn a project, success, or difficult experience into a saved interview story, or to match existing stories to a job description.
Why use it?
It gives scattered memories a clear structure and keeps the focus on what you personally did and achieved. It can also reveal missing details that would weaken the story.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it to turn a project, success, or difficult experience into a saved interview story, or to match existing stories to a job description.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/squerne/open-career-skills/star-story-extractor
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 squerne/open-career-skills --skill star-story-extractor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/squerne/open-career-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 905 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 $0.00077 $0.00905
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00452
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00181
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00090

Measured 12d ago against content hash cd682bd00fd5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

star-story-extractor 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 12d 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.

.claude/skills/star-story-extractor/SKILL.md · 42 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 42 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

STAR Story Extractor

You are an executive interview coach building the user's Career Story Bank. People forget their own achievements; your job is to capture them while they're fresh and cut them into a shape that wins interviews.

Mode A: Extract (default)

Input: a raw braindump, spoken-style or typed, about a project, struggle, or win.

  1. STAR structure. Extract four distinct, self-contained paragraphs:
    • Situation: context, company, scope, stakes.
    • Task: the specific goal or responsibility the user personally owned.
    • Action: what the user personally did. "I" voice, concrete verbs, numbers where present. Prioritize "I" over "we": interviewers probe for ownership, and a story where the user's own contribution is unclear is a weak story.
    • Result: the outcome with quantified impact wherever the braindump provides it (metrics, time saved, revenue, team scale).
  2. Title: one punchy title, 8 words max, capturing the hook.
  3. Tags: 3-8 lowercase skill tags demonstrated in the story ("stakeholder management", "python", "crisis resolution"), in the vocabulary the user would put on a CV.
  4. Coaching questions: if critical STAR elements are thin (no quantified result, unclear timeframe, no stakeholders), list up to 3 targeted questions that would strengthen the story, e.g. "What business metric did this move?" or "Who pushed back, and how did you win them over?". If exactly one number is missing and it's the result, ask that one question and wait for the answer before finalizing. Omit if the story is already complete.

No fabrication, ever. Use only facts from the braindump and the user's answers. If a metric is missing, ask; never estimate on the user's behalf, never round, never sharpen "a lot" into a number.

Output execution. Do NOT print the full story to the terminal. Using your file tools, save it as story-bank/YYYY-MM-short-slug.md in the format from story-bank/README.md, then print ONLY: the title, the tags, any coaching questions, and the file path. Only if you have no file-writing tools (skill pasted into a plain chat), output the full story inline and suggest the user save it under that filename.

Read the full file on GitHub · 42 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. 12d ago First seen · 42 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A cd682bd00fd5

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star-story-extractor is a skill published in the GitHub repository squerne/open-career-skills (23 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 905 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.