Interview a narrator about their life, session by session, and build their story archive — their corpus — in their own words: verbatim transcripts, working notes, a growing map of a life. It can become a book, a family record, or source material for whatever they choose next. It outlives this tool.
As Told To is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the business-ops sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/as-told-to/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when someone wants to be interviewed about their life or to get their story out of themselves — a memoir, autobiography, life story, family record, or personal archive; when they say "interview me", "help me write my story", "help me write my memoir", "I want to record my life", "capture my dad's stories"; or when returning to continue a story folder that already exists.
The As Told To Claude Code skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 187,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/as-told-to curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/as-told-to/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/as-told-to/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/as-told-to/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/as-told-to/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\as-told-to\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/as-told-to/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. As Told To is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the General category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{as-told-to-2026,
author = {elhamid},
title = {As Told To [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/as-told-to/}
}Grade A · scanned 2026-08-19 — free static scan against the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10.
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