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 yaxeen/storytelling-skills --skill carousel-narrativesgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yaxeen/storytelling-skillsWrote 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/yaxeen/storytelling-skills/carousel-narratives)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/yaxeen/storytelling-skills/carousel-narratives"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/yaxeen/storytelling-skills/carousel-narratives/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/yaxeen/storytelling-skills/carousel-narratives"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/yaxeen/storytelling-skills/carousel-narratives.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 | $0.00045 | $0.01505 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00023 | $0.00753 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00009 | $0.00301 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00151 |
Grade A, and why
carousel-narratives 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Carousel Narratives
- A carousel is a story told one swipe at a time. Each slide's only job is to make the thumb swipe to the next.
- Slide 1 is a hook (treat it like a thumbnail + title); the last slide is the bookend + call to action.
- Built on the six levers — see storytelling-hooks. Recap: 1. Curiosity gap · 2. Emotional mirror · 3. Conflict engine · 4. Relatability · 5. Pattern + surprise · 6. Three-act.
When to Use
- Writing an Instagram or LinkedIn carousel (5–10 slides).
- Repurposing a video script, blog, or tip list into a swipeable post.
- Diagnosing a carousel with high reach but low saves/swipe-through.
- Any niche: education, business, design, finance, fitness, faith, personal brand.
Generation Workflow
- Intake. Confirm: exact audience, goal metric (saves / shares / comments / follows), platform(s), voice, and rough slide count. Ask if missing when the user can respond; otherwise state assumptions up front.
- Map. Assign every idea to the slide map below. One idea per slide wins over a shorter deck — split a crowded slide rather than compress it (5–10 slides total).
- Write. Deliver slide-by-slide: slide text + visual direction (layout intent, emphasis, swipe cue — not fonts/hex codes) for each slide, then the caption. Read patterns.md (same folder) for slide-1 hooks, transition loops, CTA lines, and caption openers — adapt, don't copy.
- Adapt per platform (below) if posting to more than one.
- Check against the checklist and say so.
Platform Deltas (Instagram vs LinkedIn)
| Format | 4:5 (1080×1350) image slides | PDF document post, square or 4:5 |
| Text density | ~2-second skim per slide | Tolerates ~20–30% more text; add one supporting example |
| Tone | Casual, emoji fine | Peer-to-peer professional, minimal emoji |
| Best CTA | Save (reference value) | Comment — comments drive LinkedIn reach more than saves |
| Caption | Hook line + compressed story + 3–5 hashtags | First-person story opening; 2–3 hashtags max |
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.
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 115 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 4d97b02e9e70
carousel-narratives is a skill published in the GitHub repository yaxeen/storytelling-skills (9 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 1,505 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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