internal-narrative
by alirezarezvaniinternal-narrative helps leaders build one coherent company story for employees, investors, customers, candidates, partners, and the board. Use it to plan all-hands updates, investor notes, board memos, recruiting narratives, and crisis communication while checking audience-specific risks and contradictions.
This skill scores 78/100, which means it is a solid listing candidate for directory users who need an agent to help maintain consistent company messaging across employees, investors, customers, candidates, and partners. It has clear activation language and enough substantive guidance to improve over a generic prompt, though adoption would be easier with stronger installation and quick-start documentation.
- Strong triggerability: the frontmatter explicitly names use cases such as investor updates, all-hands, board communications, recruiting narratives, crisis communications, and messaging consistency.
- Substantive workflow content: the SKILL.md is long and structured, with no placeholder markers, and frames the core problem of translating the same company truth for different audiences.
- Useful supporting materials: the repository includes narrative frameworks such as SCR and a concrete all-hands presentation template with slide-by-slide prompts.
- No install command or README is provided in the skill directory, so users must rely on repository structure or their existing skill installation process.
- Support materials are mostly advisory documents and templates rather than executable scripts or validation tooling, so quality depends on the agent applying the narrative guidance well.
Overview of internal-narrative skill
What internal-narrative does
internal-narrative is a C-level communication skill for turning one company truth into consistent messages for different audiences: employees, investors, customers, candidates, partners, and the board. It is designed for moments where wording is not the main problem; alignment is. The skill helps identify what must stay constant, what must be translated for each stakeholder, and where contradictions could damage trust.
Best fit for Workplace Communication
The internal-narrative skill is strongest for Workplace Communication tasks such as all-hands updates, investor notes, board pre-reads, recruiting narratives, leadership memos, and crisis communication. It is especially useful when the same event has different implications for different groups, for example a resource shift, missed target, reorganization, product sunset, funding milestone, or strategic pivot.
What makes it different from a generic prompt
A generic prompt may produce a polished message for one audience. internal-narrative focuses on narrative coherence across audiences. Its core idea is: same truth, different lenses. That matters when employees need safety and clarity, investors need evidence of judgment, customers need continuity, and candidates need confidence in the company’s direction.
Install-decision notes
Install this skill if you frequently ask an AI assistant to draft executive communications and then spend time fixing tone mismatches, hidden contradictions, or audience-specific risks. It is less useful for casual announcements, short Slack edits, or brand copy that does not require strategic alignment across stakeholder groups.
How to Use internal-narrative skill
internal-narrative install
Install from the repository path with:
npx skills add alirezarezvani/claude-skills --skill internal-narrative
The skill lives under c-level-advisor/skills/internal-narrative in the GitHub repository. After installation, verify the skill files were added to your local skills directory and that your AI client can access custom skills. The upstream package does not appear to depend on scripts, build steps, or external services, so adoption is mostly about reading the included frameworks and prompting it with enough business context.
Files to read before first use
Start with SKILL.md to understand the trigger conditions, core principle, and workflow. Then read references/narrative-frameworks.md, which includes useful structures such as Situation–Complication–Resolution and Problem–Solution–Evidence. If you are preparing an employee meeting, open templates/all-hands-template.md; it gives a practical slide-by-slide structure for monthly or quarterly updates.
A good reading path is:
SKILL.mdreferences/narrative-frameworks.mdtemplates/all-hands-template.md
Inputs that improve internal-narrative usage
For strong internal-narrative usage, provide the business fact, audience list, desired outcome, constraints, and known sensitivities. Weak input: “Write a message about our strategy shift.” Strong input: “We are moving 40% of engineering from Product A to Product B because Product B has 3x retention and a faster sales cycle. Product A customers remain supported for 18 months. Employees are worried about layoffs, investors want capital efficiency, and customers need roadmap clarity. Create one core narrative plus versions for employees, investors, and customers.”
The stronger version gives the skill enough material to separate fact, interpretation, reassurance, and evidence.
Practical workflow for real communications
Use the skill before drafting final copy. First ask it to define the core narrative in one honest sentence. Then ask for stakeholder translations, contradiction checks, and risk flags. After that, generate the actual artifact: all-hands talking points, investor update, board memo, FAQ, or candidate-facing story.
A useful prompt pattern is:
Use internal-narrative to create a coherent company narrative for [event]. Include the non-negotiable truth, audience-specific concerns, message variants for [audiences], likely contradictions, and a recommended communication sequence.
internal-narrative skill FAQ
Is internal-narrative only for internal comms?
No. Despite the name, internal-narrative covers internal and external stakeholder communication. It is useful whenever one company reality must be explained differently without changing the underlying truth. That includes employees, investors, customers, candidates, partners, and board members.
When should I not use this skill?
Do not use it when you only need grammar cleanup, social media copy, or a one-off announcement with no strategic sensitivity. It also cannot replace legal, HR, investor relations, or crisis counsel. For layoffs, financial disclosures, regulatory matters, or customer-impacting incidents, use the skill to structure the narrative, then route the output through the appropriate reviewers.
How is it different from a messaging framework?
A messaging framework often defines positioning, pillars, and taglines. The internal-narrative skill is more operational: it helps communicate changing company reality without creating trust gaps. It is closer to an executive communication assistant than a brand positioning template.
Is the internal-narrative skill beginner-friendly?
Yes, but beginners should use structured inputs. If you only provide a vague request, the skill may produce plausible but generic executive language. You will get better results by listing what happened, why it happened, who is affected, what cannot be promised, and what action you want each audience to take or understand.
How to Improve internal-narrative skill
Improve internal-narrative outputs with sharper facts
The most common failure mode is over-smoothing. To avoid bland or evasive output, give the skill specific numbers, tradeoffs, timelines, and uncomfortable truths. Instead of “growth is slower,” say “new ARR was 18% below plan because enterprise procurement cycles extended by 45 days.” Specificity lets the skill create a credible narrative rather than generic reassurance.
Add audience concerns before asking for copy
Before drafting, ask: “What does each audience fear, need, and misinterpret?” This improves the final communication because the same fact carries different emotional weight. Employees may ask whether priorities or jobs are changing. Investors may ask whether management saw the problem early enough. Customers may ask whether support quality or roadmap commitments are at risk.
Use contradiction checks as a required step
Ask the skill to compare all versions and flag inconsistencies. For example, if the employee message says “no major strategy change” while the investor message says “decisive pivot,” the narrative will fail. A useful review prompt is: “Audit these audience-specific drafts for contradictions, missing evidence, overpromising, and phrases that could be interpreted as evasive.”
Iterate from narrative to artifact
Do not expect the first output to be final copy. Use a sequence: core narrative, stakeholder map, message variants, FAQ, then final artifact. For an all-hands, combine internal-narrative with templates/all-hands-template.md so the story is supported by metrics, lessons learned, risks, and next steps. This produces communication that is not only polished but operationally credible.