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Short Drama Development

Turns novels, loglines, or multi-episode drafts into traceable short-drama development docs: creative brief, story engine, and episode map.

Content & WritingIntermediate★ 1,797⑂ 433AI score 9/10Last updated: Sep 11, 2026

What it does

  • Takes an idea, synopsis, novel, series notes, or even finished multi-episode scripts and converts them into traceable development artifacts.
  • Routes by entry point first: idea-only, adaptation from source material, episode-mapping only, existing single episode, or bulk multi-episode intake.
  • Ships a strict ownership boundary — it produces creative-brief.md, story-engine.md, a director-brief.md candidate, adaptation-map.jsonl, series-arc.json, and episode-map.jsonl, and explicitly does not write scenes, dialogue, asset breakdowns, prompts, or media.
  • Grades rules into four tiers (structural invariant / reviewed invariant / craft default / taste option) so trope formulas never override causal judgment.
  • Modular reference library loaded on demand: genre cards, premise devices (regression, system grants), serial character & memory, mechanism loops, reveal/reversal/payoff, hook playbooks.
  • scripts/episode_intake.py indexes and slices long drafts so huge scripts never need to be pasted into context, with resumable batching.

Who it's for

  • Vertical short-drama and comic-drama writers and showrunners
  • IP teams adapting web novels into screen material
  • Teams managing long series where episode-to-episode handoff and continuity matter
  • Studios comfortable working in Chinese-language development docs

Examples

  1. "Adapt this web novel into a short drama" → it first lists locked facts, changeable space, source spans, and open questions, then drafts an adaptation map and creative brief.
  2. "I have a revenge premise, help me pick a direction" → it offers candidates that differ by mechanism (protagonist strategy, source of opposition, cost) and threads the chosen one through brief, engine, and episode map.
  3. "I have an 80-episode combined draft, build me the episode map" → runs episode_intake.py index, then records entry state, turn, and outgoing pressure per episode in resumable batches.

· · · Install guide · · ·

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  2. In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
  3. Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
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Copy the skills/short-drama-develop folder from the GitHub repo zenstory-ai/drama-skills into my ~/.claude/skills/short-drama-develop/.
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Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/zenstory-ai/drama-skills.git /tmp/drama-skills && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r /tmp/drama-skills/skills/short-drama-develop ~/.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/zenstory-ai/drama-skills.git
  3. Create the skills directory: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  4. Copy this skill only: cp -r drama-skills/skills/short-drama-develop ~/.claude/skills/
  5. Confirm Python 3 is available with python3 --version (needed for the multi-episode intake script).
  6. Restart Claude Code, then ask something like "develop a short drama from this novel" to trigger the skill.
  7. Optional sanity check: python3 ~/.claude/skills/short-drama-develop/scripts/selftest.py
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT