Storytelling Ethics Lifecycle

Steward the public story of work — not the product behavior, and not a writing workshop.

A story here is any public narrative about how and why something was made: an article, talk, origin note, showcase, or README section. It may sit next to code, ethics, and decisions. It must not replace them.

This skill is domain-agnostic. It applies to a repository, a paper, a talk, a design, a game, or a test project. It owns three loops that must stay together:

1. Ethics of creation — who may be named, what may be invented, whose voice is used.
2. Ethics of application — what the story is used to claim, sell, teach, or hide.
3. Maintenance of the art and its ethics — keep the story true, short, and disclosed as facts change.

Philosophy is not enough. The mechanics are a role ledger, a disclosure block, and a hygiene pass. Role vocabulary lives in references/role-ledger.md. The public block lives in references/disclosure-template.md.

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