Long-Form Source Novel Analysis (Short Drama)

A read-only pipeline that turns long novels or serialized web fiction into a traceable analysis layer: chapter index, adaptation triage, story units, and episode candidates.

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

What it does

Converts a long source text into an analysis layer that can be cited, challenged, and reused downstream for vertical short-drama adaptation.

S0 Chapter index: novel_index.py parses Arabic and Chinese numerals, picks one numbering unit, drops table-of-contents blocks, and verify checks sequence and line coverage — one single source of truth for slicing
S1 Adaptation triage: deterministic, reproducible sampling answers "is a full breakdown worth the cost?", writes triage.md covering six points, then pauses to ask the creator
S2 Per-chapter function extraction with a coverage gate that surfaces missing chapters and misnamed files
S3–S5: story units and rhythm/emotion curves, character merging and world rules, then adaptation-value.md plus episode-candidates.jsonl cut by payoff distribution rather than fixed word counts

It never copies prose in bulk, never writes scripts or assets, and hands final decisions to $short-drama-develop.

Who it's for

Producers and IP editors adapting web novels into vertical short dramas
Writers who want evidence-backed decisions on opening points and which threads to keep
Teams already using the drama-skills suite (develop / write / assets / review)

Examples

"Analyze this novel" with a .txt path → chapter index plus a problem report (number gaps, duplicates, near-empty chapters)
"Just tell me whether it's worth adapting" → sampled triage.md with coverage ratio and an effort estimate, then it stops for your go-ahead
"Split this long book into episode candidates" → episode-candidates.jsonl with source spans, carried functions, open questions, plus a retrospective on which triage calls were overturned

· · · 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-novel-analyze ~/.claude/skills/

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Open a terminal.
Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/zenstory-ai/drama-skills.git
Create the skills folder: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
Copy this skill: cp -r drama-skills/skills/short-drama-novel-analyze ~/.claude/skills/
Verify Python: python3 --version
Run the self-test: python3 ~/.claude/skills/short-drama-novel-analyze/scripts/selftest.py
Restart Claude Code and ask "analyze this novel" with the path to your source .txt file.
Optional: copy the other short-drama-* skills from skills/ for the full develop → write → assets workflow.

View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT