Yourself Story

Q: What is a Claude Code skill and how does the Yourself Story skill fit in?

A Claude Code skill is a 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. Yourself Story is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Sales category. Learn more at https://claudskills.com/learn/what-is-skill-md/.

Category: Sales · Sub-category: outreach · Last updated: 2026-06-10

Drafts and critiques bios, LinkedIn About sections, intro slides, "tell me about yourself" interview answers, and personal-essay openers using Adam Bryant's 500-CEO research and Lauren Weinstein's warmth+competence frame. Different from pitch-coach (which is product-shaped) and cold-email-coach (which is recipient-shaped). This skill is for the format where you ARE the subject. Use when writing a bio for a website, a LinkedIn About paragraph, the first slide of a deck about yourself, the opening of an application essay, or rehearsing the "tell me about yourself" interview answer. Triggers on "tell me about yourself," "write my bio," "LinkedIn About," "about me page," "intro slide," "personal essay," "self-introduction.

From the source SKILL.md

Source: Adam Bryant's Corner Office column (NYT) interviews with 500+ CEOs on what they look for in candidates, plus Lauren Weinstein's GSB research on the two-axis model of social judgment, plus a set of model bios taught in Glenn Kramon's Winning Writing class.

What this skill does

Yourself Story is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the outreach sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/yourself-story/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when writing a bio for a website, a LinkedIn About paragraph, the first slide of a deck about yourself, the opening of an application essay, or rehearsing the "tell me about yourself" interview answer. Triggers on "tell me about yourself," "write my bio," "LinkedIn About," "about me page," "intro slide," "personal essay," "self-introduction.

Who uses this skill

The Yourself Story Claude Code skill is built for sales development reps, account executives, revenue operations teams, and customer success managers. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 116,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/yourself-story
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/yourself-story/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/yourself-story/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/yourself-story/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/yourself-story/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\yourself-story\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

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One-click install via the desktop app

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Frequently asked questions

How do I install the Yourself Story Claude Code skill?

Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/yourself-story/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.

What does the Yourself Story skill do?

Is this skill free to install?

Yes. ClaudSkills is an open registry — every skill keeps its source repository's license, and manual install via copy is free. ClaudSkills Pro ($9/mo, $79/yr, or $149 one-time) adds one-click install via the desktop app and a multi-signal Quality Score.

When should I use the Yourself Story skill?

Use Yourself Story when your Claude Code task falls under the Sales category — specifically in the outreach area. Claude Code auto-discovers installed skills and invokes the right one based on the task description, so you can also ask Claude directly (e.g. "use Yourself Story" or describe the task and let Claude pick). Browse related skills at /category/sales/.

What is a Claude Code skill and how does the Yourself Story skill fit in?

A Claude Code skill is a 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. Yourself Story is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Sales category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.

Attribution & license

Source: https://github.com/kalyvask/winning-writing/blob/HEAD/skills/yourself-story/SKILL.md
Author: kalyvask

Cite this skill

If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:

APA

kalyvask. (2026). Yourself Story [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/yourself-story/

BibTeX

@misc{yourself-story-2026,
  author    = {kalyvask},
  title     = {Yourself Story [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/yourself-story/}
}

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