| name | crit-story |
| description | Author a crit story only when the user explicitly invokes crit-story or directly asks you to generate a crit story. Do not infer this skill from generic review, PR, or diff-review requests. |
Author a crit story with crit story
This is a sibling skill to the interactive Crit review loop — it does not run
inside /crit. Invoke it deliberately only when the user explicitly asks for
story generation; do not infer it from generic review, PR, or diff-review
requests.
Primary path: author in-session with --guide / --prep / --story-file
(do not run bare crit story, which spends agent_cmd tokens).
Step 1: Fetch the guide
crit story --guide
This prints the resolved authoring guide (the user's customized version if
they have one — always invoke this at runtime rather than reusing this
skill's own prose) followed by --- and the JSON schema for the fields you
must emit. Read and follow that guide's principles and JSON shape exactly —
it is the source of truth, not this file.
Step 2: Write the prep file
crit story --prep /tmp/crit-story-prep.txt
This writes the full, untrimmed diff (commit messages + every hunk with its
(file_path, old_start) id) to the given path and prints the path. Read
that file — the diff is never inlined into the guide prompt.
Step 3: Author the story JSON
Following the guide from Step 1, cluster hunks by theme (not by file) and
write a JSON object with only prologue, chapters, and support to a
temp file, e.g. /tmp/crit-story.json. Do not include version,
generated_at, agent, base_sha, head_sha, scope_fingerprint, or
coverage — crit fills those in.
Step 4: Ingest
crit story --story-file /tmp/crit-story.json
Exit 0 means the story was saved (crit opens the browser to show it). Exit 1
means it was rejected — the coverage report (missing/duplicated hunks) is
printed to stdout as JSON on every attempt, success or failure. If rejected:
duplicated non-empty: a hunk is claimed by two chapters (or a chapter and
support). Decide where it belongs and re-ingest.missing non-empty with auto_repaired: true on exit 0: crit already
back-filled the omissions into support[]. Optionally re-author to place
them deliberately.- A drift error ("diff changed since prep"): re-run
crit story --prep and
re-author from the fresh prep file.
What this skill does NOT do
- It does not call
crit comment, crit push, or crit share — those are
separate flows.
- It does not produce review-level human comments.
- It does not run as part of the generic Crit review loop.
- It does not run bare
crit story (LLM via agent_cmd) unless the user
explicitly asks for that path.
