user-story-writer

user-story-writer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from uthumany/uthy-legacy-os. It costs 27 tokens per session (1,005 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A format for writing user stories: short descriptions of what a specific type of user wants to do and why. It also uses INVEST guidelines to keep stories independent, valuable, and small enough for a sprint.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create backlog items, break features into sprint-sized work, and define the user's goal and benefit.
Why use it?
It turns broad feature ideas into clear units of work that developers and testers can understand without guessing.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to create backlog items, break features into sprint-sized work, and define the user's goal and benefit.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/uthumany/uthy-legacy-os/user-story-writer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add uthumany/uthy-legacy-os --skill user-story-writer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/uthumany/uthy-legacy-os

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.
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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 $0.00027 $0.01005
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00502
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00201
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00101

Measured 12d ago against content hash 5d34cea176b8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

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Grade A, and why

user-story-writer 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.

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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.

skills/prd-and-stories/user-story-writer/SKILL.md · 107 lines

How it starts

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User Story Writer

Overview

User stories are the atomic unit of product work. A well-written story describes what a user needs, why they need it, and how we'll know it works — small enough to ship in a sprint, clear enough that no one needs to ask "what did they mean?" This skill follows Mike Cohn's format with INVEST criteria.

When to Use

  • Breaking features into sprint-sized pieces of work
  • Handing requirements off to engineering and QA
  • Building and maintaining a product backlog
  • Writing stories for a specific epic or initiative
  • Don't use for: technical infrastructure work (use tasks, not stories), bug fixes (write a bug report with reproduction steps), or system designs

Instructions

1. Follow the User Story Format

**As a** [type of user],
**I want** [goal or action],
**So that** [reason or benefit].
  • Who: A specific user role (not "user")
  • What: An action or goal, not a UI detail
  • Why: The benefit — this is the most important part

Examples:

  • ❌ "As a user, I want a button to export to CSV" (focuses on UI)
  • ✅ "As a marketing manager, I want to download campaign reports so I can share them with my team."

2. Apply INVEST Criteria

  • Independent: Can it be shipped alone?
  • Negotiable: Is there room for discussion on implementation?
  • Valuable: Does it deliver value to the user?
  • Estimable: Can the team estimate effort?
  • Small: Can it be completed in a sprint?
  • Testable: Can QA verify it's done?

If a story fails any INVEST check, split or rewrite it.

3. Add Acceptance Criteria

Write 3-7 criteria using Given/When/Then format (see acceptance-criteria skill).

4. Add Context

For each story, include:

  • Design link: Figma or mockup reference
  • Technical notes: Architecture decisions, API contracts
  • Dependencies: Other stories or tasks that must come first
  • Definition of Done: Team-specific completion checklist

5. Size and Prioritize

  • Estimate effort using your team's method (t-shirt sizes, points, hours)
  • Prioritize within the epic using RICE or value-effort
  • Order by dependency and value

Read the full file on GitHub · 107 lines

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  1. 12d ago First seen · 107 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 5d34cea176b8

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user-story-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository uthumany/uthy-legacy-os (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 1,005 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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