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shuohao-skills: AI short-drama pre-production kit

Seven skills that take a novel through adaptation outline, character and scene bibles, screenplay and storyboard, ready for AI video generation.

In short: Seven skills that take a novel through adaptation outline, character and scene bibles, screenplay and storyboard, ready for AI video generation. It is a free skill for people who use Claude Code or Codex and want help with ai video.

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Agent / toolAccess / costLink
Claude CodePaid Claude plan or APIclaude.com/claude-code
CodexChatGPT plan or APIopenai.com/codex
GitHub repoOpen source · ★ 4.7keternityspring/shuohao-skills
shuohao-skills: AI short-drama pre-production kit

Image: from the GitHub README, shown with credit.

Image from the eternityspring/shuohao-skills READMEImage from the eternityspring/shuohao-skills README

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Try it in 60 seconds

git clone https://github.com/eternityspring/shuohao-skills.git

Install command copied from the project README. Check the README for the latest version.

What it does

Seven skills that take a novel through adaptation outline, character and scene bibles, screenplay and storyboard, ready for AI video generation.

Agent-agnostic skills for AI short-drama production — from a novel to shoot-ready material: character bibles, adaptation outlines, scene & prop bibles, screenplays, opening staging, and storyboards. Each skill is…

Short excerpt from the README of eternityspring/shuohao-skills. Read the full README on GitHub.

Inside the repo

Scene Staging: inputs, outputs, and handoffOne page for five stage reportsInstallRequirementsRepository conventionsStar historyLicense

A prompt to try

Use shuohao-skills to adapt chapter 1 of [novel] into an outline, character bible and storyboard for a 2-minute short drama.

Written by us so you can reuse it. Replace each [bracket] with your details.

Step by step

  1. Open the GitHub repo and read the README (install commands change often).
  2. Install it with the command in the README, or copy the skill folder into ~/.claude/skills/ (Claude Code) or ~/.codex/skills/ (Codex).
  3. Restart your agent so it picks the skill up.
  4. Ask for the video in plain words and review drafts before the final render.

Docs, demos & materials

Sources & credit

All credit to the original authors. We rewrite in our own words and link back. Something wrong? Report it.

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