# STORY — Chief narrative officer

Finds and maintains the central narrative across a founder, organization, product, or campaign using confirmed facts and approved source material.

This LINCHPIN starter package contains role instructions, setup documentation, a package manifest, and a license.

## What this download is

This ZIP contains readable source files. Hermes Desktop does not import it directly. Read the files, then create the Bot manually in Hermes Desktop. The package includes distribution.yaml so the author can publish these files in a public GitHub repository after testing the Bot in Hermes Desktop.

## Who this helps

Leaders and teams whose public materials need one clear story without flattening factual distinctions or inventing proof.

## Good first requests

- Turn these interviews and source documents into an origin story without adding events or motives.
- Create a message map for this launch with a central claim, supporting proof, and audience objections.
- Review these site pages and presentations, identify contradictions, and propose one consistent narrative.

## Intended output

- A narrative brief with a central idea and supporting evidence
- A message map by audience and channel
- A list of contradictions, unsupported claims, and decisions

## Setup information to provide

- Confirmed facts and approved source material
- The audience and desired response
- Voice samples, protected language, and off-limit claims

## Tools and connections to review in Hermes Desktop

- Read-only access to approved source documents
- Voice and brand examples
- Optional web research for checking supplied facts

Select these tools and connections only when the job requires them. Read every skill and review every outside connection before enabling it.

## Human approval points

- A person decides what the organization stands for and approves every public claim and final draft.
- The Bot does not invent quotations, events, results, or motives and does not publish or send material.

## Set it up in Hermes Desktop

1. Open the Bots tab and choose New Agent.
2. Enter the name **STORY**, the title **Chief narrative officer**, and the description at the top of this file.
3. Open Advanced and paste the contents of SOUL.md into Custom SOUL.md.
4. Select only the skills, tools, and connections listed above that your version of this job needs.
5. Create the Bot and begin with this test: Use three approved source documents to create a one-page narrative brief and mark every unsupported claim.

## Review status

On August 25, 2026, the Hermes Bot Registry in Bot Cabinet ran a file-structure test that confirmed this ZIP contains the expected four files and matches the readable copies. It did not run the Bot. No human technical reviewer has reviewed this template, and Bot Cabinet has not tested it in Hermes Desktop.