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Short Drama Development

Turns novels, ideas, or existing multi-episode drafts into a traceable creative brief, story engine, and episode map for vertical short dramas.

Content & WritingIntermediate★ 2,735⑂ 574AI score 8/10Last updated: Oct 3, 2026

What it does

Structures the development stage of vertical short dramas (Chinese-style micro-dramas and comic-dramas):

  • Entry routing: different workflows depending on whether you have only an idea, a novel/synopsis, a settled direction, a single-episode script, or a full multi-episode draft.
  • Locks the creator contract: separates immutable facts, themes, characters, and ending promises from explorable gaps, recorded in creative-brief.md.
  • Explores genuinely different directions: candidates must differ in protagonist strategy, source of opposition, or cost — not just titles and job labels.
  • Builds a story engine: how pressure arises, how the antagonist counters, what changes each round, and what condition terminates the engine.
  • Episode map (JSONL): entry state, cold open vs. payoff open, in-episode pursuit, resistance, directional turn, result, information release, and the pressure handed to the next episode.
  • Multi-episode intake: episode_intake.py indexes and slices long drafts so work can be interrupted and resumed without loading the whole manuscript.

Ownership boundaries are explicit: it never writes dialogue or scene action, never splits assets, never generates media prompts, and never issues final QA verdicts.

Who it's for

  • Short-form vertical drama producers and writing rooms
  • Adapters turning web novels into multi-episode short dramas
  • Teams with scattered episode drafts who need to reconstruct series structure
  • Creators comfortable working in Chinese (most reference docs are Chinese)

Examples

  1. "Adapt this novel into a 60-episode short drama" — it first lists committed facts, mutable scope, and open questions, then produces an adaptation map and episode map.
  2. "Give me three mechanically different directions for this premise" — compares opposition mechanisms and costs, logging trade-off rationale.
  3. "Rebuild the episode map from my existing 40-episode combined draft" — uses the intake index script to detect boundaries and process in resumable batches.

· · · Install guide · · ·

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git clone https://github.com/zenstory-ai/drama-skills.git && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r 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: cp -r drama-skills/skills/short-drama-develop ~/.claude/skills/
  5. (Optional) Copy sibling skills such as short-drama-write and short-drama-review so the develop → write → review pipeline works end to end.
  6. Restart Claude Code and confirm short-drama-develop appears in your skill list.
  7. Trigger it with a request like "develop this novel into a short drama." For multi-episode drafts, verify the tooling first with python3 ~/.claude/skills/short-drama-develop/scripts/selftest.py (requires Python 3).
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT