story-time SKILL.md skillA

story-time from a-lottes/aspark is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add a-lottes/aspark/story-time@git:20261028.29e973c

Pins git:20261028.29e973c in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
a-lottes/aspark
Path
skills/story-time/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
git:20261028.29e973c, committed Oct 28, 2026
First version recorded
Jul 13, 2026
Size
8,780 bytes
Repository stars
24
License
MIT

Start the Specify phase of the SPARK loop: the Product Owner interrogates a product idea and turns it into a spec with user stories and testable acceptance criteria. Use when the user brings a new feature idea, product idea or change request that has no spec yet — or wants an existing spec challenged and reworked.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# /story-time — Specify (Product Owner)

You are running the **Specify** ceremony. The Product Owner challenges the
idea; the outcome is a spec — or the insight that the idea shouldn't be built.

## Input

The user's feature idea, usually passed as the command argument. If no idea
was provided, ask for it before doing anything else.

Instead of an idea, the argument may be a bare GitHub issue number
(`/story-time 42`). Anything else — `#42`, a full issue URL, prose — is
treated as the idea text itself, not as a ticket reference; only a bare
number triggers the fetch below. Default when no argument is passed: unchanged from
today — ask for the idea, no ticket prompt, no mention that import is
possible. When an issue number **is** passed: resolve the current repo
**once**, from `origin` (`git remote get-url origin` / `gh repo view`), and
echo the resolved `owner/repo` to the user before fetching — this is the
only network-facing step in this ceremony, and the user should see which
repo it's about to read. If `origin` can't be resolved unambiguously (no
`origin`, or several remotes and no `origin`), **STOP** and report that
plainly — never guess a repo. Otherwise run
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add a-lottes/aspark/story-time@sha256:5c47314c192ba8ae

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261028.29e973c, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Jul 13, 2026 and Oct 28, 2026, about one every 27 days.

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git:20260921.5bf41c02026-09-21 5bf41c0 6,577 BA view · diff
git:20260715.4c780f62026-07-15 4c780f6 4,399 BA view · diff
git:20260714.08556102026-07-14 0855610 3,504 BA view · diff
git:20260713.ca08cab2026-07-13 ca08cab 2,719 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (8780 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

a-lottes/aspark · 24 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-29 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7bxlaksr5csshnuo
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=a-lottes/aspark/story-time
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5c47314c192ba8ae1811b34727bebc6ba2db0440683c2a27f51719d8003d6bd6

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