Story Mapping Skills
10 free skills that teach Claude, ChatGPT, Codex and other AI agents to build story maps from research, slice releases, write backlogs, and plan sales deals around the customer journey.
No sign-up. Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Product discovery and planning
From research and feedback to a sliced map and a ticket-ready backlog.
User Story Mapping
Build a story map from a brief, PRD or idea, with Jeff Patton's method.
user-story-mapping
Interview to Story Map
Turn interview transcripts into an evidence-backed map, with a snapshot per participant.
interview-to-story-map
Feedback to Story Map
Theme support tickets, NPS comments and feature requests onto the journey.
feedback-to-story-map
MVP Slicing
Find the walking skeleton, cut release slices with outcomes, and plan Now / Next / Later.
mvp-slicing
Story Splitting
Split big stories into small vertical ones with SPIDR, checked against INVEST.
story-splitting
Story Map Review
Review a map's structure, balance and hidden assumptions, and get the top three fixes.
story-map-review
Story Map to Backlog
Write tickets with Given/When/Then acceptance criteria from a release slice.
story-map-to-backlog
Sales and customer success
Map how your customers buy and use the product, and plan the deal with them.
Sales Discovery Map
Map a prospect's workflow and pains from discovery calls, with a MEDDICC check.
sales-discovery-map
Mutual Action Plan
A shared buyer and seller plan from evaluation to go-live and first value.
mutual-action-plan
Sales Playbook Map
A sales or CS playbook along the customer journey, tailored to each buyer role.
sales-playbook-map
Install
Each skill is a folder with a SKILL.md. Download the pack, or one skill from its page, then add it to your agent.
Claude
Claude takes skills as a zip of the skill’s folder. First unzip the pack, then zip the folder of each skill you want, one zip per skill. In claude.ai or the desktop app, open Customize → Skills, choose + → Create skill → Upload a skill, and pick the zip.
ChatGPT
First unzip the pack. Then open Skills in the sidebar, choose Create → Upload from your computer, and upload a skill folder. Repeat for each skill.
Claude Code
Add them to your personal skills folder:
unzip story-mapping-skills.zip -x README.md -d ~/.claude/skillsOr use .claude/skills in a repository to share them with your team.
Codex
Add them to your personal skills folder:
unzip story-mapping-skills.zip -x README.md -d ~/.agents/skillsOr use .agents/skills in a repository.
Other agents
Any agent that supports the open Agent Skills format can load the folders as they are. For one that doesn’t, paste the SKILL.md into the chat, a project’s instructions, or a custom GPT.
Works better with Cartographer
Turn the markdown into a live story map
Every skill works in a plain chat and writes markdown you can paste anywhere. Connect Cartographer and the same skills build a real story map instead: journeys, steps and cards your team can edit, comment on, slice into releases and share.
Add this MCP server to your agent:
https://cartographer.studio/mcpQuestions
- What is an agent skill?
A folder with a
SKILL.mdfile: instructions, a process and an output format for one kind of task. The agent reads the short description in each skill and loads the full instructions only when your request matches, so installing ten skills costs almost nothing until you use one.- Do I need Cartographer to use them?
No. Every skill works in a plain chat and writes its story map, plan or backlog as markdown. If you connect the Cartographer MCP server, the same skills build a live board instead.
- Which agents do they work with?
Claude (claude.ai, the desktop app and Claude Code), ChatGPT, Codex, and any other agent that supports the open Agent Skills format. For the rest you can paste a
SKILL.mdinto the chat.- Can I change them?
Yes. They’re licensed CC BY 4.0: use, adapt and share them, including at work and commercially, as long as you credit Cartographer. Edit the process or output format to match how your team works.
- How is this different from the Cartographer plugin?
The skills are the method: how to map, slice, split and plan. The Claude plugin bundles all ten with the Cartographer connection, slash commands and a board builder agent, for teams that already use Cartographer.
