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 sumitaich1998/OpenDate --skill storytellinggit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sumitaich1998/OpenDateWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/sumitaich1998/opendate/storytelling)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/sumitaich1998/opendate/storytelling"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sumitaich1998/opendate/storytelling/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/sumitaich1998/opendate/storytelling"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sumitaich1998/opendate/storytelling.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00025 | $0.00539 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00013 | $0.00269 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00005 | $0.00108 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00054 |
Grade A, and why
storytelling 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 11d 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.
Copies of this mod
1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:
- new-account-setup — 86% identical, 137 lines differ
What it actually says
Storytelling
A well-told little story does what a list of facts can't: it shows personality, values, and humor all at once — and it makes them want to tell you one back.
Anatomy of a great text-message story
Keep it to 2–4 sentences. Structure:
- Hook — a one-line setup that creates a small question. ("So I once tried to impress a date by cooking and nearly set off the smoke alarm at her place.")
- Turn — the unexpected or funny beat.
- Landing — a punchline or a small, honest reflection that reveals something about you.
- Handoff — invite their version. ("Please tell me you have a worse first-date disaster.")
Choosing the story
- Relevance over impressiveness. Pick something that connects to what they just said. A relevant small story beats an epic non-sequitur.
- Reveal a value, not a résumé. The best stories show how you think, what you find funny, what you care about — not how cool you are.
- Vulnerability in small doses. A little self-deprecation or honesty builds trust. Save the heavy stuff for later/in person.
- Have a point. End on a punchline or an insight, never just "…anyway."
Delivery on text
- Front-load the hook; phones reward brevity.
- Compress ruthlessly — cut everyone who isn't essential to the story.
- Land, then pass the mic. Always invite their version so it stays a dialogue, not a monologue.
- Voice matters most here. This is where the user's persona should shine;
hand off to
persona-style-transferso the cadence and humor are unmistakably theirs.
Do / Don't
- Do keep it tight and end with a clear hook back to them.
- Do let the story reveal character.
- Don't ramble, brag, or trauma-dump.
- Don't tell a story with no point or no handoff.
Output
A 2–4 sentence anecdote with a clear landing and an invitation for them to share their own.
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 58 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 6b7690cec3ac
storytelling is a skill published in the GitHub repository sumitaich1998/OpenDate (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 539 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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