Narrative Craft is an AI skill that acts as your top-tier startup narrative consultant. It helps VC-backed founders build, diagnose, and optimize their fundraising narratives — grounded in real-time market intelligence, recent funding cases, and capital cycle awareness.

"Lots of people can build things. Far fewer can tell the story."

Like wave-particle duality in quantum physics, every startup has two fundamental properties: the business and the narrative. Ignore either one and you fail. This skill helps you master the narrative side.

Three scenarios, progressively loaded based on your intent:

• Mandatory Phase 0 checkpoint — Forces a pause to gather critical info (funding market, track, VC-backed fitness) before giving any advice. No assumptions, no guessing.
• Real-time market intelligence — Searches for recent funding events, hot narratives, and competitor positioning before crafting advice.
• Graceful fallback — When market data is scarce, honestly discloses limitations and provides industry benchmarks + recommended intelligence sources instead of fabricating data.
• Bilingual output — English for USD funds, Chinese for RMB funds, auto-switched based on your target market.
• Web3 / AI dialect switching — Different tracks have different narrative grammars. The skill knows when to talk about FDV/TVL vs. ARR/moats.
• Honest VC-fit assessment — If your direction is better suited for a cash-flow business, it will tell you directly rather than wasting your time on a doomed narrative.

Input:

"I'm building an AI code review tool, $500K ARR, want to raise a seed round in Silicon Valley"

Output includes:

• VC-backed fitness assessment ✅
• Diagnosis: "AI code review tool" as a category is being absorbed by platform players (Cursor at $50B, Claude Code...)
• 3 narrative upgrade versions: "Software Quality Intelligence" → "The Engineering Brain" → "AI Research Lab for Code Cognition"
• Market timing: 🟡 Window narrowing, close within 3 months
• Valuation framework: $20-35M pre-money for the recommended narrative

Input:

"Help me diagnose this pitch: 'We're a Web3 social platform with token incentives for content creation...'"

Output includes:

• 4-dimension health report: Grandeur 2/10, Backward Compatibility 1/10, Capital Timing 3/10, Secondary Market Readability 2/10
• 5 specific problems diagnosed (category dying, "decentralization" is no longer a differentiator, data tells the wrong story...)
• 2 rewrite proposals: "Creator Economy Protocol" and "Social Reputation Oracle" (AI × Crypto dual narrative)

Narrative Craft uses the open SKILL.md standard and is compatible with multiple AI agent platforms. Choose the one you use:

Claude Code natively supports SKILL.md skills. Two scopes available:

User scope (available in all your projects):

# Clone into your personal skills directory
git clone https://github.com/chengjialu8888/Narrative-craft.git ~/.claude/skills/narrative-craft

Project scope (shared with your team via git):

# Clone into your project's skills directory
git clone https://github.com/chengjialu8888/Narrative-craft.git .claude/skills/narrative-craft

Claude Code auto-detects the SKILL.md file on startup. No further configuration needed.

Verify installation: Simply ask Claude Code a trigger phrase like "帮我想想怎么跟投资人讲我的项目" or "Help me build a narrative for my startup" — the skill will activate automatically.

OpenClaw supports the AgentSkills-compatible SKILL.md format. Multiple installation methods:

Method 1 — Direct install to workspace:

# Clone into your workspace skills directory
git clone https://github.com/chengjialu8888/Narrative-craft.git skills/narrative-craft

Method 2 — Install to shared skills (all agents):

# Clone into managed skills directory
git clone https://github.com/chengjialu8888/Narrative-craft.git ~/.openclaw/skills/narrative-craft

Method 3 — Personal agent skills (all workspaces):

git clone https://github.com/chengjialu8888/Narrative-craft.git ~/.agents/skills/narrative-craft

OpenClaw will pick up the skill on the next session. The skill watcher auto-refreshes if skills.load.watch is enabled in your openclaw.json.

Optional config (~/.openclaw/openclaw.json):

{
  skills: {
    entries: {
      "narrative-craft": {
        enabled: true
      }
    }
  }
}

Mira is an enterprise AI assistant with built-in custom skill support. To add Narrative Craft:

1. Open Mira (macOS app or web interface)
2. Go to Skills settings — find the custom skills / user skills section
3. Create a new skill — paste the full content of SKILL.md (including YAML frontmatter) into the skill editor
4. Save and activate — the skill becomes available immediately in your conversations

Alternatively, if you have access to the Mira skill directory on your system:

# Copy SKILL.md to your Mira user skills directory
cp SKILL.md /path/to/mira/plugins/{env}/{user_id}/narrative-craft/SKILL.md

Once installed, trigger it by saying "帮我构建创业叙事" or "Help me build a fundraising narrative" in any Mira conversation.

Note: The core SKILL.md is identical across all platforms. The YAML frontmatter + Markdown format is an open standard — any AI agent that supports SKILL.md can run this skill.

Narrative Craft 是一个 AI 技能，扮演你的顶级创业叙事顾问。它帮助 VC-backed 创业者构建、诊断和优化融资叙事——基于实时市场情报、近期融资案例和资本周期判断。

"会做事情的人很多，但会讲故事的人少之又少。"

就像量子物理中的波粒二象性，创业同时具备生意和盘子两个核心属性。只看一面的人注定失败。这个技能帮你掌握叙事这一面。

• 强制前置提问（Phase 0） — 在给出任何建议之前，必须先搞清楚融资市场（美元/人民币）、赛道、VC 适配性。不假设，不猜测。
• 实时市场情报 — 搜索近期融资事件、热门叙事、竞品定位，确保建议有数据支撑。
• 优雅降级 — 搜索失败时坦诚说明，提供行业参考坐标和信息源推荐，而不是编造数据。
• 中英双语输出 — 美元基金用英文，人民币基金用中文，自动切换。
• Web3 / AI 叙事语法切换 — 不同赛道有不同的"方言"，技能自动适配。
• 诚实的 VC 适配性判断 — 如果你的方向更适合做现金流生意，会直接告诉你，而不是浪费你的时间。

Narrative Craft 使用开放的 SKILL.md 标准，兼容多个 AI 智能体平台。

# 用户级（所有项目可用）
git clone https://github.com/chengjialu8888/Narrative-craft.git ~/.claude/skills/narrative-craft

# 项目级（通过 git 与团队共享）
git clone https://github.com/chengjialu8888/Narrative-craft.git .claude/skills/narrative-craft

Claude Code 启动时自动检测 SKILL.md，无需额外配置。

# 工作区级（当前 agent 可用）
git clone https://github.com/chengjialu8888/Narrative-craft.git skills/narrative-craft

# 共享级（所有 agent 可用）
git clone https://github.com/chengjialu8888/Narrative-craft.git ~/.openclaw/skills/narrative-craft

# 个人 agent 级（所有工作区可用）
git clone https://github.com/chengjialu8888/Narrative-craft.git ~/.agents/skills/narrative-craft

下次会话时 OpenClaw 自动加载。开启 skills.load.watch 可实现热更新。

1. 打开 Mira（macOS 应用或网页端）
2. 进入 技能设置 → 自定义技能 / 用户技能
3. 新建技能 → 粘贴 SKILL.md 全部内容（含 YAML frontmatter）
4. 保存并激活 → 立即可在对话中使用

对你的 AI 助手说以下任意内容即可触发：

以上触发方式在 Claude Code、OpenClaw、Mira 三个平台均适用。

• 🎯 VC-backed 创业者 — 正在或即将融资，需要打磨叙事
• 🧠 技术背景创始人 — 擅长 build 但不擅长讲故事
• 🌏 Web3 / AI 赛道 为主，兼顾其他方向
• 💰 面向 美元基金 或 人民币基金

本技能的核心方法论受以下思想启发：

• 波粒二象性 — 创业同时具备"生意"和"盘子"两个属性
• 《人类简史》 — 叙事是智人协作的底层操作系统
• 资本博弈论 — 任何事情和资本结合都必然催生博弈，资本就是用钱换时间
• 二级市场思维 — 创业的本质是创造新的资产

欢迎提交 PR！特别欢迎：

• 新的叙事案例和 pattern
• 更多赛道的"叙事语法"差异表（如 biotech、climate tech、fintech）
• 非英语/中文市场的融资叙事特点（如欧洲、中东、东南亚）
• 新平台的兼容性适配

MIT License — 自由使用、修改和分发。