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Adaptation

Turns a finished story project into an audiobook narration script, a Fountain screenplay, a picture-book pagination plan, a comics script, an interactive edition, or a foreign-language edition.

Content & WritingIntermediate★ 401⑂ 61AI score 9/10Last updated: Nov 4, 2026

What it does

Keeps the source manuscript as the single source of truth and produces medium-specific deliverables in an adaptations/ folder.

  • Audiobook: pronunciation guide table, per-chapter runtime estimates, [pause] scene breaks, plus a production checklist covering ACX / Findaway routes, audition script, retail sample and AI-narration disclosure
  • Screenplay: builds a Fountain skeleton from scene records (title page, sluglines, unprinted [[Source: ...]] notes) after you mark each scene keep / merge / cut / externalize
  • Picture book: 32-page, 14-spread pagination with a page-turn beat per spread, illustration briefs kept out of the prose
  • Comics: page plan, then full script with panels, captions, balloons and SFX
  • Interactive: branch map from linear scenes, plus Twine (.twee) and Ink (.ink) builds
  • Translation: glossary as term base, per-language style sheet, a separate project that keeps the original ids, then a two-way story compare

The hard rules are the real value: never alter the manuscript without author approval, never invent a pronunciation for a real name, and always tell the author to re-check current platform specs.

Who it's for

  • Novelists with a revised or complete draft who want an audiobook or screen version
  • Picture-book and comics creators who need disciplined pagination and panel plans
  • Authors preparing a translator's glossary and style sheet
  • Anyone managing fiction projects with the Story Skills CLI

Examples

  1. "Make an audiobook script — how long will it run?" → fill in pronunciation for characters and places, then story build . --format narration for a script with a pronunciation table and chapter runtimes
  2. "Adapt this into a screenplay" → add setting: interior/exterior to locations, build a scene list, generate the Fountain skeleton, then write action and dialogue act by act
  3. "Prepare a Spanish edition" → add ## Translations to each glossary term, copy the project with a new language, then run story compare ../book-es --against . to catch missing chapters

· · · Install guide · · ·

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  2. In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
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Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/danjdewhurst/story-skills.git && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r story-skills/skills/* ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open a terminal.
  2. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/danjdewhurst/story-skills.git
  3. Create the skills folder: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  4. Copy the skills across: cp -r story-skills/skills/* ~/.claude/skills/
    • Even if you only want adaptation, keep story-maintenance too — it holds the shared conventions and the bundled fallback CLI.
  5. (Recommended) Install the Story CLI. Without it the skill falls back to node story-maintenance/scripts/story.js, so make sure Node is present via node -v.
  6. Restart Claude Code, open your story project folder, and ask something like "make an audiobook narration script" or "adapt this to a screenplay" to trigger the skill.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT