user-pov-sliced-stories

user-pov-sliced-stories is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tottinge/otter-skills. It costs 84 tokens per session (676 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A writing guide for turning existing delivery slices into clear user-facing outcomes. A vertical slice is a small, end-to-end piece of functionality that a user can try.

In plain words
What is it for?
Writing “User invokes” and “User uses result” statements, defining acceptance examples, and keeping slices independently demonstrable.
Why use it?
It prevents technical component lists from being mistaken for usable product increments. It also clarifies what the user does and gets from each slice.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the otter-skills plugin — 7 skills shipped together

Good fit Writing “User invokes” and “User uses result” statements, defining acceptance examples, and keeping slices independently demonstrable.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tottinge/otter-skills/user-pov-sliced-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 tottinge/otter-skills --skill user-pov-sliced-stories
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tottinge/otter-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install otter-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 84 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 676 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 $0.00084 $0.00676
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00338
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00135
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00068

Measured 12d ago against content hash bb6d65f7e3ab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

user-pov-sliced-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 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.

plugins/otter-skills/skills/user-pov-sliced-stories/SKILL.md · 63 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 63 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

User POV Sliced Stories

Role of this skill

This skill is a formatter, not a splitter. It translates an existing admission plan into user-visible invoke/result language.

Primary splitting — choosing the admission boundary, sequencing slices, writing Slice 0, bargain-hunting the next case — belongs in story-splitting-for-delivery. Apply this skill after that plan exists, or when the user specifically asks for user-observable wording.

Build slices as user-visible behavior

Define each slice as an end-to-end behavior a user can trigger and benefit from immediately. Avoid component-only splits (UI-only, API-only, DB-only). Each slice must be independently demoable.

Workflow

  1. If no admission plan exists yet, create one with story-splitting-for-delivery first.
  2. Restate the capability in customer terms: who, behavior change, value now.
  3. For each admission slice, write the user-visible invoke/result pair (see format below).
  4. Keep slices small — typically 1–3 days.
  5. Define concrete acceptance examples before implementation.
  6. Re-split after each delivered slice based on feedback.

Required output format

For each slice, always produce:

Slice N — <short user-facing title>

  • User invokes: <exact command, UI action, API call, or trigger>
  • User uses result: <observable value/output the user consumes immediately>
  • Acceptance checks: <2–4 testable checks>
  • Not yet in this slice: <explicitly deferred scope>

Sequencing rules

  • Deliver 2–5 slices at a time.
  • Put the safest value slice first.
  • Put highest uncertainty reduction in slice 1 or 2.
  • Keep later slices negotiable; do not over-specify implementation.

Quality gate before finalizing slices

Confirm each slice:

  • is demoable to a stakeholder
  • provides value or learning even if work stops afterward
  • is testable independently
  • remains vertical and user-observable
  • is small enough for fast feedback

Response style

  • Write from user POV, not component POV.
  • Prefer concrete invocation language: command name, button label, menu path, API endpoint.
  • Keep each slice concise and high signal.
  • If the plan uses technical admission language, translate it — do not copy paste implementation details.

Read the full file on GitHub · 63 lines

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. 12d ago First seen · 63 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A bb6d65f7e3ab

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user-pov-sliced-stories is a skill published in the GitHub repository tottinge/otter-skills (3 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 676 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 2026-08-31.

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