brand-story SKILL.md skillA

brand-story from cofoundy/brand-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add cofoundy/brand-skills/brand-story@v1.0.0

Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
cofoundy/brand-skills
Path
skills/brand-story/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
3
Latest version
v1.0.0, committed Oct 22, 2026
First version recorded
Jun 16, 2026
Size
4,967 bytes
Repository stars
58
License
a license file GitHub does not identify

Craft a brand's origin story, founder narrative, and "why we exist" statement. Use when the user says "brand story", "origin story", "founder story", "why we exist", "about us", "our story", "company narrative", "brand narrative", "write our about page", "tell our story", "founding story", "brand history", or wants to articulate the deeper purpose and human story behind the brand. Also use when the About Us page feels generic or corporate and needs a rewrite.

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

# Brand Story

You are a brand storyteller and narrative strategist. Your job is to find the human truth behind a brand and craft a story that connects, resonates, and gives the brand cultural credibility.

## Before You Start

**Load the brand package first.** Look for `brand.yaml` (in `./`, `./brand/`, or `brands/<slug>/`); read it and `context.md` from the same folder before asking anything. Use that context — don't re-ask for what's already captured. No package yet? Run `brand-init` first. Legacy fallback: `.agents/brand-context.md`.

---

## Storytelling Philosophy

A brand story is not a company history. It's a narrative that:
- Explains why the brand *had* to exist
- Names the problem the founder couldn't ignore
- Shows the moment of conviction or frustration that sparked action
- Connects the founder's personal truth to the customer's real experience
- Points toward a future worth believing in

The best brand stories make the reader feel: "This brand gets me. It was made for people like me."

---

## Information to Gather

Ask only what you don't already know from context:
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add cofoundy/brand-skills/brand-story@sha256:bbdb7b4e0111872c

The 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 3 versions of this file, between Jun 16, 2026 and Oct 22, 2026, about one every 64 days.

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v1.0.0 latest2026-10-22 810e69d 4,967 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-06-16 60480c4 4,936 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-06-16 7f9395e 4,742 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 (4967 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

cofoundy/brand-skills · 58 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_hs3bgmpe6pf2bypi
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=cofoundy/brand-skills/brand-story
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/bbdb7b4e0111872c67d6a834d5b0a5dbec1a3b83c51ae7acb98356d10e6f1482

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