user-story-writing SKILL.md skillA
user-story-writing from timwukp/agent-skills-best-practice is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add timwukp/agent-skills-best-practice/user-story-writing@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- timwukp/agent-skills-best-practice
- Path
skills/skills/user-story-writing/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Jun 11, 2026
- Size
- 3,964 bytes
- Repository stars
- 12
- License
- MIT
Writes and refines user stories for product backlogs: splits epics into INVEST-compliant stories, drafts Given/When/Then and EARS-format acceptance criteria, and runs definition-of-ready checks. Triggers on: "write user stories", "split this epic", "acceptance criteria for", "refine this story", "is this story ready", "turn these requirements into stories".
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
# User Story Writing Turn requirements, feature ideas, and epics into stories a team can estimate and deliver. The product is the story set, not prose about the feature. ## Story Format ```markdown ### [ID] [Title — verb phrase, outcome-oriented] **As a** [specific user role — not "user"], **I want to** [action], **so that** [value the role actually cares about]. #### Acceptance Criteria - Given [precondition], when [action], then [observable outcome] - ... ``` For system-level or compliance-driven requirements where the persona format gets artificial, use EARS instead: | EARS pattern | Template | Use for | |--------------|----------|---------| | Ubiquitous | The [system] shall [behavior] | Invariants | | Event-driven | When [trigger], the [system] shall [behavior] | Responses to events | | State-driven | While [state], the [system] shall [behavior] | Mode-dependent behavior | | Unwanted behavior | If [undesired condition], then the [system] shall [behavior] | Error and abuse handling | | Optional | Where [feature is included], the [system] shall [behavior] | Configurable capabilities | ## INVEST Check …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add timwukp/agent-skills-best-practice/user-story-writing@sha256:66d42fc6e72499d9The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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 1 version of this file, committed on Jun 11, 2026.
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Source
timwukp/agent-skills-best-practice · 12 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-16 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_bni35tvauav272ss GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=timwukp/agent-skills-best-practice/user-story-writing GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/66d42fc6e72499d999b5ea6b1ed35766a1d9459f03a7b07d18a6e1b9e570c401
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