Skills that teach a coding agent the craft behind a film: story structure, screenplay format, shot design, continuity and storyboards. Settle the script and the shot list first, then hand the plan to whichever video model you use.
58 skills
Start with what you want back from the agent. Text on the page means a screenplay, an outline or a story bible. A shot plan means a shot table, a storyboard or a director's breakdown. Pictures or clips means the skill also drives an image or video model. Most skills in this collection stop after the first two, which keeps the output portable: a script and shot list written once can feed any generator. Prompt formulas for a specific video model are in video prompt skills, and vertical serials have their own set in short drama skills.
Writing skills are the lightest option. Screenwriting Skills bundles 26 skills on premise, structure, character, dialogue and series design, with a workflow skill that keeps a story bible between sessions. Shanyin Screenwriting Master is a single Chinese-language skill that switches between concept shorts, short films, features and series and pauses for your approval at each step. Screen Creative Skills adds 31 Claude Code skills for developing short dramas, series and films, including script evaluation. None of the three needs a video model.
Craft libraries and storyboard builders sit in the middle. DirectorSkills turns ten film-craft books and a camera reference into 98 skills on directing, shot design, lighting, color and sound, and NolanX film skills offers nineteen short skills on story structure, Fountain screenplays, shot language and continuity. Script to Shootable Storyboard, Agentara video skills and AI Storyboard turn a script or video plan into a shot table, a storyboard sheet or panel prompts for an image model. Storyboard Creation from inference.sh is a reference on shot types and the 180-degree line, with rendering commands that call the inference.sh CLI. Reelbench skills work backwards, measuring an existing video into a shot-by-shot table so you can study a reference film's pacing.
End-to-end pipelines and vendor skills go further and reach pictures and clips, so they bring dependencies. Toonflow Skills belong to the open-source Toonflow canvas app and assume its tools. PAI-Pro is a local studio whose clips render with PAI Video models. Codeywood has Claude Code drive Python scripts against image and video backends. Scenario Agent Skills need the Scenario MCP server, and fal.ai Skills run through the genmedia CLI. Skills from a tool's own publisher (marked official) are written for that tool, so they only pay off if you plan to use it. Choose this kind when you want the whole path in one place and accept the account and cost that come with it.
Before installing, check four things. Target model: many shot-level skills write prompts for Seedance 2.0 or 2.5, while Film Studio Skills records whichever image and video models you use in your project file. Agent: Screenwriting Skills ships for both Claude Code and Codex, AI Storyboard is set up for Claude Code, and Script to Shootable Storyboard is tuned for Codex. Language: Shanyin Screenwriting Master, DirectorSkills and Script Forging are in Chinese, Screenwriting Skills keeps its files in Chinese but answers in your language, and NolanX film skills and Scenario Agent Skills are in English. License: InkOS skills are AGPL-3.0, AI Storyboard is GPL-3.0, Script Forging, Film Studio Skills and Codeywood declare none, and Shanyin adds no-resale terms to its MIT license. Every skill here is third-party code, so read its SKILL.md before you install it.
jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills
Screenwriting and TV-writing skills for Claude Code and Codex, from premise and structure to dialogue and series design, with a workflow skill that keeps a story bible between sessions.
For writing a feature or series with Claude Code or Codex: 26 skills cover premise, structure, dialogue and series design, and a workflow skill keeps a story bible between sessions. The files are in Chinese but the agent answers in your language; the author says vertical short drama is out of scope.
Shanyin-ai/shanyin-screenwriting-master
A Chinese-language screenwriting skill that takes a story from premise to finished script, with separate tracks for 1–3 minute concept shorts, short films, 90-minute features and series.
For Chinese-language writers who want a step-by-step process: one skill has tracks for 1 to 3 minute concept shorts, short films, 90-minute features and series, and stops for your approval after each step. The README adds terms to the MIT license (keep the author credit, no reselling), so read it first.
nolanx-ai/nolanx.ai
Nineteen film-craft skills from the open-source NolanX runtime, covering story structure, Fountain screenplays, shot language, continuity and Seedance 2.0 prompts.
For English-language projects that want film-craft rules rather than one fixed workflow: nineteen short skills on story structure, Fountain format, shot language and continuity, plus Seedance 2.0 prompts. They are written for NolanX's own agent roles, so check what they assume before using them elsewhere.
geegl/directorskills
A library of 98 skills: 97 distilled from ten film-craft books and one cross-book camera reference, covering story, directing, shot design, cinematography, color grading, transitions and sound.
For anyone who wants the reasoning behind directing and cinematography choices: 98 skills built from ten film-craft books and a camera reference, each with steps to follow and failure cases. It is in Chinese, mostly traditional craft (only a couple of skills touch AI prompting), and holds no text from the books.
zyz254009-crypto/script-to-shootable-storyboard
Turns a script, synopsis or existing storyboard into one-action shootable shots with continuity and timing checks, then routes each shot to live action, Seedance or a hybrid.
For turning a finished script into a shot table you could film or generate: each shot gets one framing, one action and one camera move, with continuity and timing checks, then goes to live action, Seedance or a mix. It is in Chinese, tuned for Codex, and needs Node.js 18 or later.
inference-sh/skills
A storyboarding reference covering shot types, camera angles, movement, continuity rules and panel layout, with inference.sh CLI commands for rendering panels with an image model.
For an English reference on shot types, camera angles, movement and continuity rules such as the 180-degree line, with commands for drawing storyboard panels. Rendering goes through the inference.sh CLI, and the repo declares no license.
HBAI-Ltd/Toonflow-app
Skills that come with the open-source Toonflow canvas app: a production workflow with Seedance 2.0/2.5 prompt rules, a canvas manual, a text-storyboard skill and an MCP skill for outside agents.
For people who would rather work inside an app than assemble loose skills: the open-source Toonflow canvas ships a production workflow and a text-storyboard skill, in Chinese, plus an MCP skill for outside agents. Its prompt rules target Seedance 2.0 and 2.5.
HBAI-Ltd/Toonflow-app
Skills that come with the open-source Toonflow canvas app: a production workflow with Seedance 2.0/2.5 prompt rules, a canvas manual, a text-storyboard skill and an MCP skill for outside agents.
waooAI/waoowaoo
Six Chinese-language skill files from the waoowaoo AI film workspace, covering script writing, creative direction, asset design, video-segment prompts and music cue planning.
Narcooo/inkos
Three method skills from InkOS: adapt stories into scripts including serial short drama, turn scripts into shots with image prompts, and plan branching interactive films.
Emily2040/seedance-2.0
A large skill set for writing Seedance 2.0 video prompts: a routing root skill plus 28 sub-skills for camera, audio, character locks, continuation and troubleshooting.
0xsline/OpenChatCut
Four workflows bundled with the OpenChatCut video editor: AI short-film planning, shot-by-shot breakdown, beat-synced cutting and video model selection, loaded by its own agent or over MCP.
jd-opensource/JoyAI-Echo
Four skills from JD's JoyAI-Echo project: a director workflow, a story writer and a tail-frame prompt rewriter for multi-shot Echo 1.5 video, and a six-field prompt writer for Echo-WM.
nolanx-ai/nolanx.ai
Nineteen film-craft skills from the open-source NolanX runtime, covering story structure, Fountain screenplays, shot language, continuity and Seedance 2.0 prompts.
jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills
Screenwriting and TV-writing skills for Claude Code and Codex, from premise and structure to dialogue and series design, with a workflow skill that keeps a story bible between sessions.
Shanyin-ai/shanyin-screenwriting-master
A Chinese-language screenwriting skill that takes a story from premise to finished script, with separate tracks for 1–3 minute concept shorts, short films, 90-minute features and series.
feicaiclub/video-spec-builder
Interviews you about a video idea until it becomes a timed, shot-by-shot video-spec.md that the HyperFrames skill can render; it also edits an existing spec and checks changes for conflicts.
lixiaoxiao9888-create/manju-laoli-skill
A Chinese-language director suite for AI short dramas that locks the video model and aspect ratio first, then runs gated scripting, asset locking, shot design and prompts with a built-in checker.
eternityspring/reelbench-skills
Skills for studying finished videos: one breaks a video into a shot-by-shot table with measured durations, another renders it with the current shot's data beside the picture.
scenario-labs/skills
Scenario's skill pack for its MCP server, with video skills for Seedance, Kling, Veo and other models plus storyboards, consistent characters, assembly, captions and audio.
inference-sh/skills
A storyboarding reference covering shot types, camera angles, movement, continuity rules and panel layout, with inference.sh CLI commands for rendering panels with an image model.
OSideMedia/higgsfield-ai-prompt-skill
A Claude skill library for Higgsfield video prompts: a dispatcher plus about 35 sub-skills on camera, Seedance, Cinema Studio, acting, story bibles, shotlists and troubleshooting.
agentara/skills
Four skills that take a short-video idea to a timed scene plan, a storyboard sheet with a matching prompt script, a character sheet and poster key art, with an image model drawing the pictures.
NoizAI/skills
Four audio and video-assembly skills from NoizAI: timeline-aligned text-to-speech, video dubbing, music-video assembly from a finished song, and text-to-sound-effect generation.
smixs/visual-skills
A video-prompt skill that has the agent plan each clip as drama (want, obstacle, staging, cuts) before writing the syntax for Seedance, Kling or Veo.
jnMetaCode/ai-shortfilm-prompts
Claude Code skill that turns an idea into a cinematic video prompt for models such as Seedance, Sora, Kling and Veo, using a five-part structure and 21 genre templates.
VanGong1999/screen-creative-skills
A pack of 31 Claude Code skills for developing vertical short dramas, series and films: novel and IP screening, story and character analysis, short-drama planning and drafting, script evaluation.
Yuuhann1999/agent-storyboard
A Codex and Claude Code plugin with two skills that write a full shot list into a local storyboard app, then work through its queue of image and motion-graphics generation jobs.
Utopai-Research/pai-code
A local filmmaking studio with a canvas and timeline whose skills let Claude Code or Codex write scripts, design characters and locations, give voices and render shot clips.
elementsix/elementsix-skills
A Claude Code skill that walks you from a rough idea to a time-coded Seedance 2.0 storyboard prompt, with @-references to your image, video and audio files.
nutllwhy/seedance-tvc-director
Text-only director skill for 15 s, 30 s or custom-length commercial spots: turns a brand brief into concepts, a shot-by-shot sheet and copyable Seedance prompts, then plans retakes from the cut.
zhlmi/script-forging
A checkpointed workflow that turns a finished story into a prompt pack, scene outline, screenplay, optional storyboards and an asset list, stopping for approval at each stage.
liyue-aigc/xianxia-cinematic-video-director
A Codex skill that turns a xianxia (Eastern fantasy) scene idea, keyframe or reference clip into a multi-shot plan with camera moves, continuity locks and per-shot image-to-video prompts.
Hao0321/ai-media-generator
Picks a generation platform and writes platform-specific prompts for AI images, video and music, and can submit them by driving the platform's website through browser automation.
fal-ai-community/skills
Five fal.ai skills run through the genmedia CLI: cinematic prompting, multi-shot storytelling, consistent characters, model-specific prompt guides and multi-step pipelines.
calesthio/generative-media-skills
A large skill suite for AI media production: video-model operating guides, shot and storyboard direction, character continuity, editing and delivery checks across image, video and audio.
jijiutong/ai-visual-director
A Claude Code skill pack that turns a story into image prompts for character sheets, scenes and storyboards, plus video prompts for five platforms, with quality checks and locked-state tracking.
Supreme-Ultimate/novel-to-script-team
A multi-agent, multi-skill workspace that adapts novels into short-drama or serial scripts, then into storyboards and video prompts, with review gates between stages.
suihe1/short-drama-production
Codex-oriented bundle that tracks an AI short drama from outline to rough cut in a production.json file, with specialist skills for script, directing, storyboard and MiniMax H3 prompts.
kangarooking/director-skills
Four director-style skills for AI video: fight-scene prompts, concept-art asset prompts, tourism promo planning that mixes real and generated shots, and a reliability layer for the Miora video tool.
wuwangzhang1216/DirectorSKILL
A director and previs skill that turns a script, prose or keyframe into a production plan, with an optional single-director style lens and a coded guide to repairing failed generations.
wyuzhi/qisi-video-remix
Takes a reference video or story material and writes a new story with a full script, character and scene image prompts, a shot table, generation segments and copy-ready video prompts per segment.
machina-exm/film-studio-skills
Seven chained skills that take a script or idea to generation-ready shot prompts, with gates that hold back prompting until every character, location and prop in the shot is locked.
TFboy1/oh-my-minimaxh3-director
An end-to-end skill, documented for Codex, that turns a script into a storyboard, MiniMax H3 clips run through ComfyUI, and a JianYing (CapCut China) draft.
Rylaispirit/cinematic-video-prompt-skill
A cinematography vocabulary skill that helps an agent write specific text-to-video and image prompts, plus two small bonus skills for character reference sheets and xianxia-style scenes.
MasterLeos/leos-six-department-directing-team-skill-v1
A directing workflow for AI films and series in which six roles, from lead director to continuity supervisor, work from one shared scene brief before a video prompt is written.
woodfantasy/Seedance-ShotDesign-Skills
A skill that turns a video idea or an existing clip into a copy-ready Seedance 2.5 prompt, routing between generation, long-video, extension, editing and other Jimeng modes.
zyz254009-crypto/script-to-shootable-storyboard
Turns a script, synopsis or existing storyboard into one-action shootable shots with continuity and timing checks, then routes each shot to live action, Seedance or a hybrid.
linyqh/speclip-skills
Skills for short-drama commentary videos, talking-head rough cuts, FFmpeg export commands and subtitle layout on portrait and landscape video.
wanshuiyin/ARIS-Movie-Director
An agent workflow that turns a fuzzy story into a cross-model-reviewed, image-based movie with a viewer page, using locked assets and a storyboard continuity ledger; video is listed as a later step.
62656456/ai-film-skills
A set of independent skills for screenplay and director thinking, character, scene and prop assets, storyboards and video prompts, genre visual presets, and producing an actual video.
doublesq97-ui/su-ai-short-drama
Two role-based AI short-drama skills, a female-audience and a male-audience edition, covering showrunning, writing, character design, storyboards and continuity for Chinese vertical dramas.
geegl/directorskills
A library of 98 skills: 97 distilled from ten film-craft books and one cross-book camera reference, covering story, directing, shot design, cinematography, color grading, transitions and sound.
RainLib/AI-Storyboard
Four Claude Code skills for episode scripts, nine-panel and four-panel storyboard prompts, motion prompts for image-to-video tools and a pass-or-fail storyboard review.
xixihhhh/ai-short-drama-skill
An orchestration skill that treats an AI short drama as one production line, from story diagnosis through script, storyboard, generation routing, dubbing, editing and QA, rather than loose prompts.
LuoJiangYong/muse-video-skill
A pre-production skill that runs a virtual film crew to turn a video idea into a script, storyboard, art direction and model-ready prompts; it plans the video but does not render it.
alchaincyf/seedance-skill
A workbench for steering Seedance 2.5 with clay-model reference videos: clarify the shot, render a white model and write the prompt from one scene.json, with a geometry check before rendering.
JohnKeating1997/spark-video
A producer skill with five role sub-skills that takes a premise through screenplay, storyboard, rendering, per-clip review and a stitched mp4, with frozen cast, set and prop references.
zhouwei713/facial-expression-prompting
A skill that turns a vague emotion into a motivated, beat-by-beat facial and body performance and a complete AI video prompt, or a block to paste into an existing prompt.
kaigani/codeywood
Claude Code framework of more than 40 skills for developing an AI film, from story interview to reference images, shot lists and video clips, driving Python scripts for image and video backends.
muxia0396/novel-to-ai-short-drama-skill
A Chinese-language Codex skill that adapts a novel excerpt into a per-shot director's script for AI short drama, with a fixed episode runtime and shot durations that sum to it.
anyhui/video-storyboard-gen-skill
A Chinese-language skill that turns a topic or idea into a story structure, a timecoded shot table and optional Jimeng and Seedance video prompts.
L-Trunks/ai-film-skills
Six directing skills for AI short films on local or cloud video models: opening decisions, character reference, shot screening, camera language, pacing and storyboarding from available footage.
whystrohm/shotkit
Five skills that turn a video brief, plus an optional brand-lock file, into a storyboard and shot list, prompts for ten image and video generators, an HTML preview and per-frame critiques.
fanchengchen1-collab/super-director
Thirteen director-craft skills for AI short drama: Chinese and English main systems for blocking diagrams, shot tables and prompts, a routing kit, nine director-style skills and a director library.
Yes, several. Screenwriting Skills covers premise, structure, dialogue and series design for Claude Code and Codex. Shanyin Screenwriting Master is a Chinese-language skill with separate tracks for shorts, features and series. Screen Creative Skills targets short drama and script evaluation. A skill gives the agent a method and a format to follow, but the draft still comes from the model you run it on, so expect to revise.
It depends on the skill. Some stop at text: Script to Shootable Storyboard outputs a shot table, a task list and a quality report, and the text storyboard in Toonflow Skills is explicit that it is a plan, not a generated image. Others draw: Agentara video skills has an image model render a storyboard sheet, and Storyboard Creation from inference.sh draws panels through its CLI. Check each skill page for the image model it expects.
An AI screenplay generator is a hosted tool with its own model and interface: you paste a premise and get a draft. A skill is a set of instructions your own coding agent reads, so you choose the model, keep the output as plain files such as Markdown or Fountain, and can combine several skills. The cost is setup, since you need an agent such as Claude Code or Codex. If you would rather go from script to shots to video without setting up an agent, the AI storyboard generator in Pencil0 does those steps for you.
AI filmmaking splits into planning, generating and cutting. The skills here cover planning: story, screenplay, shot design, continuity and storyboards. Prompt writing for Seedance, Kling or Veo is in video prompt skills, and cutting and audio are in video editing skills. Settling the script and shot list first means fewer decisions are left to the video model.
Many use the SKILL.md folder format that both agents read, but each repo documents its own install, so check the agent list on the skill page. Screenwriting Skills ships for both, AI Storyboard is set up for Claude Code, and Script to Shootable Storyboard is tuned for Codex. A few depend on a tool other than an agent, such as the Toonflow canvas app.
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