storytold
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Pick the right storytold Crafting App for a creative task: vector art, photo editing, RAW development, motion graphics, video, layout, PDF, documents, spreadsheets, slides, audio, 2D CAD, 3D parametric CAD, UI design, procedural materials, 3D texture painting, or studying how a website, app or game works to build your own. Routes to the app's own skill.
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In this repository18 other files it gives its agents.
- cadcraftSkill
- craft-anythingSkill
- deckcraftSkill
- designcraftSkill
- effectcraftSkill
- figcraftSkill
- filmcraftSkill
- gridcraftSkill
- lightcraftSkill
- materialcraftSkill
- pdfcraftSkill
- photocraftSkill
- solidcraftSkill
- soundcraftSkill
- storytold-installSkill
- texturecraftSkill
- vectorcraftSkill
- wordcraftSkill
The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
2 rules. About 0 are common, 0 are distinctive, and 2 are very specific to this project.
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Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
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This author's own choices. Worth a look.
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Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
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- Very specific
- Very specific: line 73
When the user asks to install the storytold skills (or an app skill above isn't available), install them from GitHub.
- Very specific: line 93
If the app you need has no mcp_<app>_* tools and <app>-cli --version fails, load the storytold-install skill and run setup <app>, or setup …
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
storytold Crafting Apps: which one?
The storytold Crafting Apps are seventeen free, open-source creative tools. Each has a desktop app, a CLI and an
MCP server (<app>-cli mcp, which Hermes exposes as mcp_<app>_* tools). Each also has its own skill. Use
this table to pick one, then load that app's skill before you start working.
Pick by output
| You need to produce… | App | Skill |
| A logo, icon, illustration, poster, flyer, badge, infographic, SVG | VectorCraft | vectorcraft |
| An edited photo, retouch, composite, mockup, banner from photos, PSD | PhotoCraft | photocraft |
| Developed RAW photos, a consistent look across many photos, a catalog, batch exports | LightCraft | lightcraft |
| An animated title, lower third, motion graphic, animated GIF, logo animation | EffectCraft | effectcraft |
| An edited video: cuts, sequence, titles, transitions, an MP4 export | FilmCraft | filmcraft |
| A multi-page layout: brochure, magazine, newsletter, book, print-ready PDF | DesignCraft | designcraft |
| Changes to an existing PDF: merge/split, annotate, fill forms, redact, watermark, sign, compare | PdfCraft | pdfcraft |
| A text document: letter, report, essay, .docx | WordCraft | wordcraft |
| A spreadsheet: budget, table with formulas, chart, .xlsx/.csv | GridCraft | gridcraft |
| A slide deck or presentation, .pptx | DeckCraft | deckcraft |
| Audio: podcast edit, mix, mastering, sound design, WAV/MP3 | SoundCraft | soundcraft |
| A precise technical drawing: floor plan, part, DXF/DWG, dimensions | CADCraft | cadcraft |
| A UI design: app or web screen, wireframe, mockup, prototype, component library, design tokens, .fig | FigCraft | figcraft |
| A 3D part or assembly: parametric solid model, enclosure, bracket, STEP / STL for machining or 3D printing | SolidCraft | solidcraft |
| A procedural material: tiling PBR texture maps (base color, normal, roughness, height) built as a node graph | MaterialCraft | materialcraft |
| Painted textures on a 3D model: bake maps, paint PBR channels on a mesh, export a texture set | TextureCraft | texturecraft |
| An understanding of how a website, app or game works, and your own version of it, checked against the original | Craft Anything | craft-anything |
Tie-breakers
- Single page vs many pages: one page of art is VectorCraft. Several pages with flowing text is DesignCraft.
- Pixels vs paths: photographs and painted textures are PhotoCraft. Shapes that must scale are VectorCraft.
- One photo vs a shoot: one image, layered, is PhotoCraft. Many photos with the same adjustments is LightCraft.
- Motion: an edit of footage over time is FilmCraft. Animating graphics and type is EffectCraft. Render the motion graphic in EffectCraft and cut it into the edit in FilmCraft.
- PDF: to create a designed PDF, use DesignCraft, VectorCraft, WordCraft or DeckCraft and export. To change an existing PDF, use PdfCraft.
- Documents: prose is WordCraft. Numbers and calculations are GridCraft. Something to present is DeckCraft.
- Drawings to scale with real units and dimensions are CADCraft, not VectorCraft.
- Screens vs artwork: app and web screens, components with variants, auto layout and clickable prototypes are FigCraft. A standalone logo, icon or illustration is VectorCraft. Draw the icon in VectorCraft and import the SVG into FigCraft.
- 2D vs 3D CAD: a drawing with views and dimensions (DXF / DWG) is CADCraft. A solid part you can rotate, measure, 3D print or machine (STEP / STL) is SolidCraft.
- Materials vs painting: a tiling material made from nodes (stone, fabric, metal) is MaterialCraft. Painting wear, decals and colour onto one particular model is TextureCraft, which can load MaterialCraft's materials. A single flat image edit is PhotoCraft.
- Learn and rebuild vs design from scratch: to study how existing software works and build your own version of it, use Craft Anything. It builds your own original work, not a copy of someone else's assets or branding. To design a new UI from scratch, use FigCraft.
Bigger jobs often combine apps: build a chart in GridCraft and place it in DeckCraft or DesignCraft, or design a logo in VectorCraft and animate it in EffectCraft. Use each app's native save for its master, and pass files between apps in open formats (SVG, PDF, PNG, WAV, MP4, CSV).
Setup
Install the other skills
When the user asks to install the storytold skills (or an app skill above isn't available), install them from
GitHub. Install each one on its own, because hermes skills install takes one skill per call:
hermes skills install hermes-pro/storytold-skills/<skill> --yesThe skills are storytold-install, vectorcraft, photocraft, lightcraft, effectcraft, filmcraft,
designcraft, pdfcraft, wordcraft, gridcraft, deckcraft, soundcraft, cadcraft, figcraft, solidcraft,
materialcraft, texturecraft and craft-anything. Skip any that
hermes skills list already shows.
The 17 app skills pass Hermes' security scan. storytold-install is blocked ("community source + caution
verdict"), because its job is to persist a PATH entry, run the app CLIs and hermes mcp add, and read
STORYTOLD_* / GITHUB_TOKEN environment variables. Tell the user that, and point them to
hermes skills inspect hermes-pro/storytold-skills/storytold-install. Re-run it with --force only after the
user agrees. Then ask the user to start a new session so the new skills load.
Install the apps
If the app you need has no mcp_<app>_* tools and <app>-cli --version fails, load the storytold-install
skill and run setup <app>, or setup on its own for all seventeen. It installs the app, puts it on PATH, checks
the MCP server and registers it with Hermes.
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