Official agent skill

Customer Story Writer

by zapier in zapier/gtm-cheat-codes

Drafts customer stories or metric-led story pages from approved transcripts, notes and quotes, keeping verified claims apart from ones that still need approval.

OfficialMITAuto-check passedWriting & Content

Install Customer Story Writer

skills CLI
$ npx skills add zapier/gtm-cheat-codes --skill customer-story-writer -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install zapier/gtm-cheat-codes customer-story-writer --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/zapier/gtm-cheat-codes.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/customer-advocacy/customer-story-writer .claude/skills/customer-story-writer && 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
customer-story-writer
GitHub stars
342
Token cost
~438 tokens
SKILL.md length
206 words
Files
6
Skills in repo
21
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Drafts customer stories or metric-led story pages from approved transcripts, notes and quotes, keeping verified claims apart from ones that still need approval.

  • Works in 6 steps: Confirm the intended format: narrative… → Load only approved source material:… → Extract the person, business problem,… → …
  • Turning a customer interview transcript into a story draft
  • SKILL.md covers Use When, Workflow, Zapier MCP And SDK Role and Output Format, plus 1 more section
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

This skill turns approved customer source material into a story draft that avoids generic case-study copy. The agent confirms whether you want a narrative story or a metric-forward story page, loads only approved inputs such as transcripts, notes, briefs, CRM context, content-library assets and permission notes, and extracts the person, business problem, workflow, product role, outcomes, exact quotes and missing facts. Verified claims are kept apart from claims that need sourcing or approval.

The output has a recommended title, a short summary, the draft, a quote and claim checklist, open questions and an approval checklist covering quotes, metrics, customer, brand and legal sign-off. Guardrails forbid inventing quotes, metrics, timelines, tools or approvals, keep customer names, logos, quotes and metrics out of public copy until approved, and require human review before anything is published or shared. Zapier MCP can fetch the source material, and the Zapier SDK can run intake, review routing and reminders as a repeatable workflow.

When your agent uses it

  • Turning a customer interview transcript into a story draft
  • Building a metric-forward customer story page from proof points
  • Preparing the approval checklist before a story is published

Example prompts

  • “Draft a narrative customer story from the approved call transcript in stories/acme-call.txt.”
  • “Write a metric-forward story page for the logistics customer using these proof points.”
  • “List every quote and claim in this draft that still needs customer approval.”

Requirements

  • Approved customer transcripts, notes or briefs

Workflow steps

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

  1. Confirm the intended format: narrative story or metric-forward customer story page.
  2. Load only approved source material: transcript, notes, brief, CRM context, content-library assets, and permission notes.
  3. Extract the person, business problem, workflow, product role, outcomes, exact quotes, and missing facts.
  4. Separate verified claims from claims that need approval or sourcing.
  5. Draft in the requested format with concrete details and plain language.
  6. Add a review checklist for quotes, metrics, customer approval, brand approval, and legal approval.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 022a288. 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

Customer Story Writer loads about 438 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 52 tokens; SKILL.md has 206 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~52
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~438

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 zapier/gtm-cheat-codes at commit 022a288, republished under its MIT licence (© zapier). 206 words, ~438 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/customer-story-writer/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 5 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
customer-story-writer
description
Draft customer stories from approved transcripts, notes, briefs, quotes, and proof points. Use for narrative customer stories, campaign stories, and metric-forward customer story pages.

Customer Story Writer

Use When

A team has customer source material and needs a clear story draft without generic case-study copy.

Workflow

  1. Confirm the intended format: narrative story or metric-forward customer story page.
  2. Load only approved source material: transcript, notes, brief, CRM context, content-library assets, and permission notes.
  3. Extract the person, business problem, workflow, product role, outcomes, exact quotes, and missing facts.
  4. Separate verified claims from claims that need approval or sourcing.
  5. Draft in the requested format with concrete details and plain language.
  6. Add a review checklist for quotes, metrics, customer approval, brand approval, and legal approval.

Zapier MCP And SDK Role

  • Use Zapier MCP to retrieve approved transcripts, briefs, CRM context, content-library assets, and tracker state.
  • Use Zapier SDK when story intake, review routing, approval reminders, or tracker updates should run as a repeatable workflow.
  • Keep publishing and external sharing human-approved.

Output Format

  • Recommended title
  • Short summary
  • Draft story
  • Quote and claim checklist
  • Open questions
  • Approval checklist

Guardrails

  • Never invent quotes, metrics, timelines, tools, or customer approvals.
  • Keep customer names, logos, quotes, and metrics out of public copy unless approved.
  • Preserve the customer's meaning when tightening quotes.
  • Label uncertain details clearly.
  • Require human review before publishing or sending externally.

© zapier, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 5 other files in skills/customer-advocacy/customer-story-writer of zapier/gtm-cheat-codes.

  • SKILL.md
  • ONBOARDING-PROMPT.md
  • README.md
  • SCHEMA-MAP.md
  • SETUP.md
  • metadata.yaml

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 022a288

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Questions about Customer Story Writer

What does Customer Story Writer do?

Drafts customer stories or metric-led story pages from approved transcripts, notes and quotes, keeping verified claims apart from ones that still need approval. This skill turns approved customer source material into a story draft that avoids generic case-study copy. The agent confirms whether you want a narrative story or a metric-forward story page, loads only approved inputs such as transcripts, notes, briefs, CRM context, content-library assets and permission notes, and extracts the person, business problem, workflow, product role, outcomes, exact quotes and missing facts.

When should I use Customer Story Writer?

Customer Story Writer fits situations like: turning a customer interview transcript into a story draft; building a metric-forward customer story page from proof points; preparing the approval checklist before a story is published.

How do I install Customer Story Writer in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add zapier/gtm-cheat-codes --skill customer-story-writer -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/customer-advocacy/customer-story-writer in zapier/gtm-cheat-codes) into .claude/skills/customer-story-writer in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Customer Story Writer in Codex?

Run `npx skills add zapier/gtm-cheat-codes --skill customer-story-writer -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/customer-advocacy/customer-story-writer in zapier/gtm-cheat-codes) into .agents/skills/customer-story-writer in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Customer Story Writer 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 zapier/gtm-cheat-codes --skill customer-story-writer -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/customer-story-writer, .gemini/skills/customer-story-writer, .github/skills/customer-story-writer and .opencode/skills/customer-story-writer in your project.

What does Customer Story Writer need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Customer Story Writer is instructions for the agent only. Our summary lists: Approved customer transcripts, notes or briefs.

Does Customer Story Writer 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 Customer Story Writer 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 Customer Story Writer use?

Customer Story Writer 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 Customer Story Writer use?

About 438 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.8k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Customer Story Writer?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Customer Story Writer: Educational Content And How To (social-media-skills/skills, 134 stars), Ink Case (jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace, 2.8k stars), Press Release Writer (samber/cc-skills, 227 stars) and X Research (trailofbits/skills-curated, 513 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Customer Story Writer?

zapier (a GitHub organization, an official publisher) maintains it in zapier/gtm-cheat-codes, which has 342 GitHub stars. The repository holds 21 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on July 13, 2026.

Source: zapier/gtm-cheat-codes on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.