Story Explainer — Development skill for Claude Code
Story or explainer: facts first, invented visuals, a narration timeline.
How to install Story Explainer
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/vawe-hq-vawe-story-explainer/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/vawe-hq-vawe-story-explainer && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vawe-hq/vawe/HEAD/prompts/story-explainer.md -o ~/.claude/skills/vawe-hq-vawe-story-explainer/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Story Explainer does
when: "a topic, paper or process must be explained with invented visuals and no product capture" answers: "the facts-first explainer brief, the narration timeline rule, and the empty-to-complete process variant" group: reference
Story or explainer: facts first, invented visuals, a narration timeline
Brief shape: `bin/vawe new` writes Task, Look, Spec and Acceptance sections with numbers into brief.md; fill them as `prompts/ANATOMY.md` says.
**Use when** the film explains a topic, a
Alternatives in Development
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- 07 Timeline Gap Analysis — Timeline Gap Analysis 1.1k ★
- Recent Memories — Display the most recent memories and activity from Claude's persistent storage 332 ★
Full documentation available on GitHub
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