Adaptation

Turns a story project into an audiobook narration script, Fountain screenplay, picture book, comics script, interactive fiction, or translated edition.

Content & WritingIntermediate★ 243⑂ 36AI score 9/10Last updated: Sep 24, 2026

What it does

Provides a disciplined workflow for adapting an existing story project (story.md plus chapter/scene records) into another form or language.
Audiobook: pronunciation guide table, narration script with [pause] scene breaks, runtime estimates at 155 wpm, and an ACX / Findaway production checklist including AI-narration disclosure.
Screenplay: builds a scene list from scene records, marks each scene keep/merge/cut/externalize, and drafts a .fountain file at roughly one page per minute.
Picture book: 32-page, 14-spread pagination plan with page-turn beats and illustration briefs.
Comics/graphic novel: page plan then full page-panel-balloon-SFX script.
Interactive fiction: branch map plus Ink (.ink) or Twine (.twee) source.
Translation: glossary term base with ## Translations, a copied project that keeps English kebab-case ids, and cross-checks via story validate/links/continuity/compare.
Hard rules keep the manuscript as source of truth, forbid inventing pronunciations for real names, and keep adaptation files out of the project root.

Who it's for

Novelists moving a finished or revising draft into audio, film, or comics
Authors and editors preparing glossaries and style sheets for translators
Anyone structuring picture-book spreads or choose-your-own-adventure branches
Existing users of the Story Skills CLI

Examples

"Make an audiobook narration script" → add pronunciation: SEER-sha to characters and places, then run story build . --format narration --out adaptations/audiobook/narration-script.md.
"Adapt this novel into a screenplay" → produce adaptations/screenplay/scene-list.md with keep/merge/cut decisions, then draft {story-id}.fountain act by act.
"Prepare the Spanish edition" → translate glossary terms, copy the project, set language, strip series/book-number, then run story compare ../book-es --against ..

· · · Install guide · · ·

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In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.

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Install in Claude Code

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Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart.
Copy the skills/adaptation folder from the GitHub repo danjdewhurst/story-skills into my ~/.claude/skills/adaptation/.
When it's done, tell me in one line what this skill can do.

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.

Open a terminal.
Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/danjdewhurst/story-skills.git
Create the skills directory: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
Copy the skills: cp -r story-skills/skills/* ~/.claude/skills/ — copy all of them, since adaptation references scripts in story-maintenance.
Verify with ls ~/.claude/skills/adaptation; you should see SKILL.md and a references/ folder.
Optional CLI: inside the repo run bun install then bun run story -- --help, or use the bundled node scripts/story.js fallback.
Restart Claude Code and try a trigger phrase like "make an audiobook narration script" or "adapt this to a screenplay".

View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT