Agent skill

Memoir Story Capture

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Capture a life story — your own or a parent's/grandparent's — into a keepsake, using good interview questions and a structure that turns memories into readable stories.

MITAuto-check passedBusiness, Finance & HR

Install Memoir Story Capture

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill memoir-story-capture -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills memoir-story-capture --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/memoir-story-capture .claude/skills/memoir-story-capture && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.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/

Facts

Skill name
memoir-story-capture
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~1.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
606 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,348
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Capture a life story — your own or a parent's/grandparent's — into a keepsake, using good interview questions and a structure that turns memories into readable stories.

  • Works in 6 steps: Ask evocative questions. Move past facts… → Interview in gentle sessions. Spread it… → Draw out detail and emotion. Use… → …
  • Asked to help write a memoir
  • SKILL.md covers What This Skill Produces, Required Inputs, Framework: Ask Well, Capture… and Output Format, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Memoir Story Capture is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Capture a life story — your own or a parent's/grandparent's — into a keepsake, using good interview questions and a structure that turns memories into readable stories. Use when asked to help write a memoir, capture my parent's/grandparent's story, record family history, or preserve someone's life story. Produces a question set that unlocks real memories (not just dates), a session plan for interviewing over time, a structure to organize stories into chapters or themes, prompts to draw out detail and emotion, and…

Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Business, Finance & HR, covering Interview preparation. The repository describes itself as: 1255 professional Agent Skills for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor & Codex — PRDs, postmortems, leases, medical bills, layoffs, go-bags, new countries. Plain markdown, MIT, in… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Asked to help write a memoir
  • Capture my parents/grandparents story
  • Record family history
  • Preserve someones life story

Example prompts

  • “s/grandparent”
  • “/memoir-story-capture”

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Ask evocative questions. Move past facts and dates to the questions that unlock stories — sensory details, turning points, people, hopes…
  2. Interview in gentle sessions. Spread it over relaxed sittings; record audio/video so nothing's lost and the person can just talk. If…
  3. Draw out detail and emotion. Use follow-ups ("what did that feel like?", "what did the room look like?") to turn a flat recollection into…
  4. Structure the raw material. Organize into chapters/themes or chronology so it becomes a readable story rather than a jumble of transcripts.
  5. Choose a keepable form. Written memoir, edited transcript, recorded film, or a story-and-photo book — match effort and the family's wishes.
  6. Preserve the source. Back up recordings and notes — the raw material is precious even before it's shaped.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1cbf1f0. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    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.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Memoir Story Capture loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 154 tokens; SKILL.md has 606 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~154
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.2k

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.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated 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.

SKILL.md

The full file from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills at commit 1cbf1f0, republished under its MIT licence (© mohitagw15856). 606 words, ~1,221 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/memoir-story-capture/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
memoir-story-capture
description
Capture a life story — your own or a parent's/grandparent's — into a keepsake, using good interview questions and a structure that turns memories into readable stories. Use when asked to help write a memoir, capture my parent's/grandparent's story, record family history, or preserve someone's life story. Produces a question set that unlocks real memories (not just dates), a session plan for interviewing over time, a structure to organize stories into chapters or themes, prompts to draw out detail and emotion, and options for the final form — so the stories are saved before they're lost.

Memoir Story Capture

Every family loses irreplaceable stories when someone passes — the memories that were never written down. This helps you capture them: the questions that unlock real, vivid memories (not a dry timeline), a way to interview over manageable sessions, and a structure to turn the raw stories into something readable and keepable — a keepsake for the family before the chance is gone.

What This Skill Produces

  • A question set that unlocks memories — evocative prompts (sensory, emotional, turning-point) that get real stories, not just "born in 1945"
  • A session plan — how to interview over several relaxed sessions (in person or recorded), sized so it's not exhausting
  • A structure — organizing the material into chapters, themes, or chronology so it reads as a story, not a transcript
  • Detail-and-emotion prompts — follow-ups that draw out the specifics and feelings that make a memory come alive
  • Final-form options — a written memoir, an edited transcript, a recorded audio/video, or a photo-and-story book
  • Preservation guidance — recording and backing up the raw material so nothing's lost

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:

  • Whose story — your own or someone else's, and their situation (age, health, willingness)
  • The scope — a full life, a particular era, or specific themes
  • The method — interviewing in person, recording, or writing directly
  • Time available — a little urgency (health) vs. an open timeline
  • The final form — what you'd love to end up with

Framework: Ask Well, Capture Now, Shape Later

  1. Ask evocative questions. Move past facts and dates to the questions that unlock stories — sensory details, turning points, people, hopes, hard times, and small everyday memories.
  2. Interview in gentle sessions. Spread it over relaxed sittings; record audio/video so nothing's lost and the person can just talk. If health is a factor, prioritize capturing raw material fast — shape it later.
  3. Draw out detail and emotion. Use follow-ups ("what did that feel like?", "what did the room look like?") to turn a flat recollection into a vivid scene.
  4. Structure the raw material. Organize into chapters/themes or chronology so it becomes a readable story rather than a jumble of transcripts.
  5. Choose a keepable form. Written memoir, edited transcript, recorded film, or a story-and-photo book — match effort and the family's wishes.
  6. Preserve the source. Back up recordings and notes — the raw material is precious even before it's shaped.
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Output Format

Memoir capture: [whose] · scope [x] · form [y]

Question set (unlocks memories): [childhood/sensory · turning points · people/relationships · hardships · joys · everyday life · hopes & regrets · advice]. Session plan: [how many, how long, recorded how] — capture raw first if time-sensitive. Draw-out follow-ups: ["what did that feel like?" · "who was there?" · "what happened next?"]. Structure: [chapters/themes or chronology]. Final form: [memoir / transcript / recording / photo-story book]. Preserve: [record + back up the raw material].

Quality Checks

  • Questions unlock real stories, not just dates/facts
  • Includes a manageable multi-session interview plan
  • Provides follow-ups that draw out detail and emotion
  • Offers a structure to organize stories into something readable
  • Gives final-form options matched to effort/wishes
  • Stresses recording and backing up the raw material
  • Prioritizes capturing fast if time is short (health)

Anti-Patterns

  • A dry timeline of dates instead of stories.
  • One marathon session that exhausts an older person.
  • Not recording — losing the exact words and voice.
  • A jumble of transcripts with no structure.
  • Over-planning the perfect book while the chance to capture slips away.

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "Help me capture my grandmother's life story before it's too late."
  • "I want to write a memoir but don't know where to start."
  • "What questions should I ask my dad about his life?"
  • "How do I turn my parent's memories into a keepsake?"
  • "Help me record and organize my family's history."

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/memoir-story-capture of mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Mock Interviewreactive-resume/reactive-resume44k—~11kAutomated safety check: PassMIT

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Questions about Memoir Story Capture

What does Memoir Story Capture do?

Capture a life story — your own or a parent's/grandparent's — into a keepsake, using good interview questions and a structure that turns memories into readable stories. Memoir Story Capture is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Capture a life story — your own or a parent's/grandparent's — into a keepsake, using good interview questions and a structure that turns memories into readable stories.

When should I use Memoir Story Capture?

Memoir Story Capture fits situations like: asked to help write a memoir; capture my parents/grandparents story; record family history; preserve someones life story.

How do I install Memoir Story Capture in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill memoir-story-capture -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/memoir-story-capture in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .claude/skills/memoir-story-capture in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Memoir Story Capture in Codex?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill memoir-story-capture -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/memoir-story-capture in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .agents/skills/memoir-story-capture in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Memoir Story Capture in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill memoir-story-capture -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/memoir-story-capture, .gemini/skills/memoir-story-capture, .github/skills/memoir-story-capture and .opencode/skills/memoir-story-capture in your project.

What does Memoir Story Capture need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Memoir Story Capture is instructions for the agent only.

Does Memoir Story Capture access the network?

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.

Is Memoir Story Capture safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Memoir Story Capture use?

Memoir Story Capture is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Memoir Story Capture use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.9k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Memoir Story Capture?

mohitagw15856 (a GitHub user) maintains it in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, which has 1,434 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,348 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

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