Lean Startup
getagentseal/founder-playbook
Applies Eric Ries's Lean Startup methodology for building products under extreme uncertainty.
This skill should be used when the user asks about "pantsing", "discovery write", "write without an outline", "discovery draft", "write into the dark", "story kernel", "reconcile a chapter", "dead…
$ npx skills add danjdewhurst/story-skills --skill discovery-drafting -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install danjdewhurst/story-skills discovery-drafting --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danjdewhurst/story-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/discovery-drafting .claude/skills/discovery-drafting && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "discovery-drafting" agent skill from https://github.com/danjdewhurst/story-skills/tree/main/skills/discovery-drafting into .claude/skills/discovery-drafting/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "discovery-drafting", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/danjdewhurst/story-skills/tree/main/skills/discovery-draftingType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add danjdewhurst/story-skills --skill discovery-drafting -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install danjdewhurst/story-skills discovery-drafting --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danjdewhurst/story-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/discovery-drafting .agents/skills/discovery-drafting && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "discovery-drafting" agent skill from https://github.com/danjdewhurst/story-skills/tree/main/skills/discovery-drafting into .agents/skills/discovery-drafting/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "discovery-drafting", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add danjdewhurst/story-skills --skill discovery-drafting -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install danjdewhurst/story-skills discovery-drafting --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danjdewhurst/story-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/discovery-drafting .cursor/skills/discovery-drafting && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "discovery-drafting" agent skill from https://github.com/danjdewhurst/story-skills/tree/main/skills/discovery-drafting into .cursor/skills/discovery-drafting/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "discovery-drafting", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/danjdewhurst/story-skills.git --path skills/discovery-drafting--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add danjdewhurst/story-skills --skill discovery-drafting -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install danjdewhurst/story-skills discovery-drafting --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danjdewhurst/story-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/discovery-drafting .gemini/skills/discovery-drafting && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "discovery-drafting" agent skill from https://github.com/danjdewhurst/story-skills/tree/main/skills/discovery-drafting into .gemini/skills/discovery-drafting/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "discovery-drafting", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install danjdewhurst/story-skills discovery-draftingInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add danjdewhurst/story-skills --skill discovery-drafting -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danjdewhurst/story-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/discovery-drafting .github/skills/discovery-drafting && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "discovery-drafting" agent skill from https://github.com/danjdewhurst/story-skills/tree/main/skills/discovery-drafting into .github/skills/discovery-drafting/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "discovery-drafting", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add danjdewhurst/story-skills --skill discovery-drafting -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install danjdewhurst/story-skills discovery-drafting --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danjdewhurst/story-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/discovery-drafting .opencode/skills/discovery-drafting && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "discovery-drafting" agent skill from https://github.com/danjdewhurst/story-skills/tree/main/skills/discovery-drafting into .opencode/skills/discovery-drafting/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "discovery-drafting", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
discovery-draftingThis skill should be used when the user asks about "pantsing", "discovery write", "write without an outline", "discovery draft", "write into the dark", "story kernel", "reconcile a chapter", "dead…
Discovery Drafting is an agent skill from danjdewhurst/story-skills. This skill should be used when the user asks about "pantsing", "discovery write", "write without an outline", "discovery draft", "write into the dark", "story kernel", "reconcile a chapter", "dead end", "drafting sprint", "writing cadence", or wants to draft a story by discovery with retrospective bible reconciliation. NOT for outline-first drafting, or mysteries and other clue-dependent genres where setup must come before payoff (use chapter-writing), or a reverse outline of an existing linear draft, a subplot…
Its SKILL.md is about 2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 5 other files, including reference files (for example `references/dead-ends.md`, `references/drafting-cadence.md` and `references/reconcile-loop.md`).
It sits in Business, Finance & HR, covering Accounting and bookkeeping, Retrospectives and Creative writing and fiction. The repository describes itself as: Agent Skills for end-to-end story writing in markdown, packaged as Codex and Claude Code plugins. The licence is MIT.
6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1df23f9. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Shell commands in SKILL.md call:
nodeFrom the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Discovery Drafting loads about 2k tokens when it runs, and up to ~5.8k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 153 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,000 words of instructions outside code blocks.
Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.
The automated check noted patterns worth knowing about, such as sudo or a known installer.
`bunfig.toml` (which can run code) and `.env`, and a package script runs from the checkout's root. If no CLI is availabAutomated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.
The full file from danjdewhurst/story-skills at commit 1df23f9, republished under its MIT licence (© danjdewhurst). 1,000 words, ~2,028 tokens.
.claude/skills/discovery-drafting/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 4 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.Draft by discovery ("pantsing"): start from a one-paragraph story kernel rather than a beat sheet, write forward, then reconcile each chapter back into the story bible through a structured loop (extract entities → reverse outline → diff against the bible → reconcile). This is the complement to chapter-writing's outline-first workflow. The bible is maintained after the prose, not before — which the repo's import-style entity extraction and continuity checks already support.
A story project must already exist (created via the story-init skill), with
at least a story.md and one character. No plot structure is required to
start — arcs get built during reconciliation.
genre-craft)revision-continuity).
The reverse outline inside the reconcile loop, and cutting dead ends in a
batch review, stay herereferences/story-kernel.md and
draft the one-paragraph kernel with the user (character in a situation,
a want, an obstacle, a tone signal). Store it in story.md under
## Story Kernel and set draft-mode: discovered in frontmatter.story add chapter 'Title' --number N --mode discovered so story next
flags it until it is reconciled (in a draft-mode: discovered project a
drafted chapter with no mode is flagged too). Write the chapter from the kernel using the session
shape in references/drafting-cadence.md (re-read → write → close with
a next-session note). Write forward only; park bible questions as
[TODO: check bible] inline rather than stopping. Follow the prose
craft in chapter-writing/references/writing-guidelines.md and the
scene-grain tools in the scene-craft skill as usual, and write in the
voice and house style recorded in style-sheet.md — discovery changes
planning order, not prose standards. Write in the language set in
story.md (a missing field means en); the craft references' word-level
advice is English, so in another language keep its aims and follow the
style sheet's conventions.references/reconcile-loop.md exactly:Пётр gives
petr), and a name in a script with no transliteration table
(李明) needs story add character '李明' --id li-ming, with the
id agreed with the userscenes/ records## Chapter Text (below it they
count and ship as prose); set chapter frontmatter mode: discoveredreferences/dead-ends.md (abandoned ledger entries keep a recorded
reason; cut characters get status: cut, not deletion).references/drafting-cadence.md) and log each session with
story progress . --log; at midpoint and draft completion,
hand the batch to revision-continuity for developmental checks before
continuing.mode: discovered chapter must have post-hoc notes and a completed
diff — story next lists any without post-hoc notes under Reconcile discovered chapters; finish those, then hand the
manuscript to revision-continuity for revision passes.story.md frontmatter draft-mode: discovered marks a discovery project;
per-chapter mode: discovered / mode: outlined tracks mixed projects.## Chapter Notes (post-hoc) section, above
## Chapter Text, recording what was
discovered, what was cut, and open questions — the project's memory of
why the bible looks the way it does.story import).status: abandoned with a reason; cut characters keep their file with
status: cut.Use the Story CLI when it is available. If story is not installed, use the bundled fallback node ../story-maintenance/scripts/story.js with the same arguments. Use node <checkout>/bin/story.js instead only when the user names a Story Skills repository checkout or you are working in one. Write the script as an absolute path (resolve the fallback relative to this skill folder) and run it from the folder you would run story from, so . and other relative paths keep their meaning. Use Node, not Bun or a package script: Bun would load that folder's bunfig.toml (which can run code) and .env, and a package script runs from the checkout's root. If no CLI is available, perform the registry, backlink, and word-count checks manually.
After each reconcile loop:
story reindex .
story wordcount . --write
story check .references/story-kernel.md - The one-paragraph kernel: character in a situation, want, obstacle, tone signalreferences/reconcile-loop.md - The core loop: extract entities/promises → reverse-outline → diff against the bible → reconcile; mode: discovered flagreferences/dead-ends.md - Recognizing and cutting dead ends: cut/fold/prune, abandoned ledger entries, the darling logreferences/drafting-cadence.md - Daily targets, batch reviews, session shape, recovering a broken cadenceEvery story skill follows the shared conventions in ../story-maintenance/references/conventions.md, resolved relative to this skill folder. Read it before creating, renaming, or linking story files. If that file is missing because this skill was installed without story-maintenance, the essentials are: kebab-case ids and filenames, YAML frontmatter on every story-project file, _index.md registry tables that story reindex rebuilds (never edit them by hand), bidirectional links between entities, characters for who is on the page and mentions for who is only referred to, status: deceased plus died-in: chapter-{NN} for deaths, and no project-local generator or build scripts (run only the installed or bundled Story CLI).
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SKILL.md and 4 other files (references) in skills/discovery-drafting of danjdewhurst/story-skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1df23f9
We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in danjdewhurst/story-skills, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.
Discovery Drafting next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Discovery Drafting this skilldanjdewhurst/story-skills | 279 | 1 repos | ~2k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | |
| Lean Startupgetagentseal/founder-playbook | 724 | — | ~4.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Lean Startupwondelai/skills | 2.4k | — | ~4.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Sync Upstreamnyaruka/phonenumbers | 1.6k | — | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Longbridge Value Investinghelsome/folio | 269 | 2 repos | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Radiology Tablehuang-sir1/radiology-skills | 1.9k | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence |
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danjdewhurst/story-skills
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This skill should be used when the user asks about "pantsing", "discovery write", "write without an outline", "discovery draft", "write into the dark", "story kernel", "reconcile a chapter", "dead…. Discovery Drafting is an agent skill from danjdewhurst/story-skills. This skill should be used when the user asks about "pantsing", "discovery write", "write without an outline", "discovery draft", "write into the dark", "story kernel", "reconcile a chapter", "dead end", "drafting sprint", "writing cadence", or wants to draft a story by discovery with retrospective bible reconciliation.
Discovery Drafting fits situations like: asks about pantsing; discovery write; write without an outline; discovery draft.
Run `npx skills add danjdewhurst/story-skills --skill discovery-drafting -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/discovery-drafting in danjdewhurst/story-skills) into .claude/skills/discovery-drafting in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
Run `npx skills add danjdewhurst/story-skills --skill discovery-drafting -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/discovery-drafting in danjdewhurst/story-skills) into .agents/skills/discovery-drafting in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add danjdewhurst/story-skills --skill discovery-drafting -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/discovery-drafting, .gemini/skills/discovery-drafting, .github/skills/discovery-drafting and .opencode/skills/discovery-drafting in your project.
Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Discovery Drafting needs the command-line tools its instructions call (node).
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found notes only (mentions a .env file), nothing it rates as a warning. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.
Discovery Drafting is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
About 2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 8.1k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 3.8k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Discovery Drafting: Lean Startup (getagentseal/founder-playbook, 724 stars), Lean Startup (wondelai/skills, 2.4k stars), Sync Upstream (nyaruka/phonenumbers, 1.6k stars) and Longbridge Value Investing (helsome/folio, 269 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
danjdewhurst (a GitHub user) maintains it in danjdewhurst/story-skills, which has 279 GitHub stars. The repository holds 24 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.
Source: danjdewhurst/story-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.