id: marketing-and-content/story-driven-content-craft
slug: story-driven-content-craft
title: "Story-Driven Content Craft: An Agent Skill For Nonfiction That Holds
  Attention"
description: A source-lineaged agent skill for structuring founder essays, video
  scripts, social posts, and pitch narratives with stronger loops, rhythm, lens,
  payoff, and retention craft.
public_url: https://build-os.com/agent-skills/story-driven-content-craft
raw_skill_url: https://build-os.com/agent-skills/story-driven-content-craft/skill.md
portable_skill_url: https://build-os.com/agent-skills/story-driven-content-craft/portable/SKILL.md
bundle_url: https://build-os.com/agent-skills/story-driven-content-craft/bundle.zip
runtime_skill_id: story_driven_content_craft
skill_type: combo
skill_category: marketing-and-content
providers:
  - YouTube source analysis
  - BuildOS YouTube library
compatible_agents:
  - BuildOS-compatible agents
  - Claude Code
  - Codex
  - portable Agent Skills
stack_with:
  - hook-craft-short-form
  - content-strategy-beyond-blogging
  - nonfiction-writing-from-lived-conviction
lineage_people:
  - Kane Kallaway
lineage_profiles:
  - name: Kane Kallaway
    slug: kane-kallaway
    url: https://build-os.com/skills/people/kane-kallaway
lineage_sources:
  - title: How To Become A Master Storyteller
    creator: Kane Kallaway
    creatorType: Person
    creatorUrl: https://www.youtube.com/@kallawaymarketing
    url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5Z-Q1bg1tU
    sourceType: youtube_video
    channelName: Kallaway
    channelUrl: https://www.youtube.com/@kallawaymarketing
  - title: How to Become a Storytelling Genius (Dopamine Ladders)
    creator: Kane Kallaway
    creatorType: Person
    creatorUrl: https://www.youtube.com/@kallawaymarketing
    url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtmstMt4WLc
    sourceType: youtube_video
    channelName: Kallaway
    channelUrl: https://www.youtube.com/@kallawaymarketing
  - title: 7 Storytelling Mistakes That Are KILLING Small Creators
    creator: Kane Kallaway
    creatorType: Person
    creatorUrl: https://www.youtube.com/@kallawaymarketing
    url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgXGimZvDa4
    sourceType: youtube_video
    channelName: Kallaway
    channelUrl: https://www.youtube.com/@kallawaymarketing
lineage_stats:
  sources: 3
  primitives: 7
  sourceClaims: 6
  edges: 20
  candidateV2Sources: 3
gallery:
  display_title: Story-Driven Content Craft
  family: Content Craft
  domain_id: marketing-and-content
  output_shapes:
    - beat map
    - rewrite plan
    - retention audit
  workflow:
    - Identify the audience belief or attention gap.
    - Choose the structure and opening beat.
    - Draft or audit the content path.
    - Rewrite the weakest retention break.
  use_cases:
    - Make founder content hold attention.
    - Diagnose why a brand post feels flat.
    - Rewrite content around a clearer retention path.
  guardrails: &a1
    - Do not add story beats that do not change the reader view.
    - Do not bury the tension after the opener.
    - Preserve the useful point while tightening the path.
  starter_prompts:
    - Audit this draft for the first attention break and rewrite that section.
    - Help me turn this product update into a founder story with a clear payoff.
  source:
    curated: true
    runtime: true
    blog: true
    fallback: false
  trust:
    eval_status: covered
    last_updated: 2026-05-02
    safety_notes: *a1
references:
  - id: story_driven_content_craft.public_story_audit
    path: references/public-story-audit.md
    summary: Portable checklist for diagnosing the first broken retention rung, loop
      structure, lens quality, rhythm, and final-story readiness.
    when_to_load:
      - When using the portable bundle outside BuildOS.
      - When auditing or rewriting a draft essay, script, social post, or
        founder narrative.
      - When a piece feels flat and needs a structural diagnosis before line
        editing.
