story-craft

story-craft is a skill for Claude Code from Xiaokebuyu/Nodesign. It costs 121 tokens per session (1,601 once invoked), scanned A, original, AGPL-3.0.

A storytelling guide for deciding what should happen next when a plot stalls, feels repetitive, or follows familiar formulas.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for planning the next story beat, designing who knows what, judging failure, adding consequences, and making side characters feel alive.
Why use it?
It helps create meaningful changes, information gaps, failures, costs, and active supporting characters instead of simply moving the plot forward.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the nodesign plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for planning the next story beat, designing who knows what, judging failure, adding consequences, and making side characters feel alive.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xiaokebuyu/nodesign/story-craft
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 Xiaokebuyu/Nodesign --skill story-craft
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Xiaokebuyu/Nodesign

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install nodesign, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for story-craft

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/xiaokebuyu/nodesign/story-craft/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/xiaokebuyu/nodesign/story-craft)
Your own site
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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.

agentmods 80×15 button for story-craft

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/xiaokebuyu/nodesign/story-craft"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/xiaokebuyu/nodesign/story-craft.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 121 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,601 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 unknown 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 $0.00121 $0.01601
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.00800
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00320
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00160

Measured 4d ago against content hash ed594fe6a666, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

story-craft 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 4d 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.

server/engine/plugins/nodesign/skills/story-craft/SKILL.md · 95 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. 4d ago Changed · +7 tokens per session ed594fe6a666
  2. 6d ago Changed 31eeba5e92a3
  3. 12d ago First seen · 95 lines · 114 tokens per session scan A 9bb5c8dcdfe2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

story-craft is a skill published in the GitHub repository Xiaokebuyu/Nodesign (32 stars, last pushed today), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 121 tokens to every session and 1,601 once invoked, about $0.0006 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.

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