# Tools Visual State Machines

> Model user journeys, retention loops, or process states with ASCII state machines and storyboards.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-tjboudreaux-cc-visualization-skills-tools-visual-state-machines`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [tjboudreaux](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/tjboudreaux)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [tjboudreaux](https://github.com/tjboudreaux)
- **Source:** https://github.com/tjboudreaux/cc-visualization-skills/tree/main/skills/tools-visual-state-machines

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-tjboudreaux-cc-visualization-skills-tools-visual-state-machines
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# State Machine Storyboards

## Intent
- Explain how users or issues move through states with clear entry/exit rules.
- Support growth loop, launch, or issue triage skills by making transitions explicit.

## Inputs
1. State list (e.g., `New`, `Activated`, `Retained`, `Churned`).
2. Transition triggers (events, metrics, timers).
3. Guard conditions / actions per transition.

## Workflow
1. **Define legend**
   - `[STATE]` boxes; arrows `-->`; dotted `..>` for optional transitions.
2. **Draft storyboard**
   - Example:
     ```
     [New]
       |
       | signup complete
       v
     [Activated] --fails SLA--> [Churn Risk]
       | retention event
       v
     [Retained]
     ```
3. **Add annotations**
   - Edge labels: `>=3 sessions`, `NPS<30`.
   - Actions: `/{ send email }` appended to arrow.
4. **Link to metrics**
   - Provide query references or analytics dashboards for each transition.
5. **Embed in docs**
   - Include in PRs/issues or `.factory/skills/...` referencing file names (e.g., `state-machines/activation.txt`).

## Verification
- Every state has at least one ingress and egress (unless Start/End).
- Triggers clearly defined; no unlabeled arrows.
- Diagram reviewed with product/growth stakeholders for accuracy.

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [tjboudreaux](https://github.com/tjboudreaux)
- **Source:** [tjboudreaux/cc-visualization-skills](https://github.com/tjboudreaux/cc-visualization-skills)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-tjboudreaux-cc-visualization-skills-tools-visual-state-machines
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/tjboudreaux
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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