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.
A folder tree of standalone SKILL.md files, one per technique, all using the same six-part layout: a short cited source passage, an interpretation, worked cases, triggers for adaptive use, executable steps with stop conditions, and boundaries with failure modes. Frontmatter records the source book and chapter, tags and links to related skills, and each skill has a test-prompts.json for checking triggers. Topics include the Save the Cat beat sheet, the 180-degree rule, three-point lighting, color temperature and shot matching, scene-transition diagnosis and sound-design models; one cross-book skill covers camera and lens anchors for AI video prompts. The content is in Chinese and mostly traditional film craft, and there is no installer: clone the repo and use the SKILL.md files you want.
Included skills
01From the README
The install command quoted from the repository README.
git clone https://github.com/geegl/directorskills.git02skills CLI, for Claude Code, Codex and others
The open skills CLI from Vercel Labs installs a skill from a GitHub repo into the folder each agent expects. It asks which skills and which agents you want, and it installs for the current project unless you add the -g flag, which installs for your user account. Add --list to see what a repo contains before you install anything.
npx skills add geegl/directorskills03Claude Code, skills folder
Copy the skill's folder, the one that holds SKILL.md, into ~/.claude/skills/ to use it in every project on your machine, or into .claude/skills/ in a repository to use it there and share it by committing it. Claude Code picks up changes to these folders during a session. If the folder did not exist when the session started, run /reload-skills.
04Claude Code, plugin marketplace
Some repos publish a plugin marketplace, a .claude-plugin/marketplace.json file. Add it in Claude Code, then install a plugin from it with /plugin install plugin-name@marketplace-name. Plugins can bundle hooks and MCP servers along with skills, so read the details panel before you confirm.
/plugin marketplace add geegl/directorskills05Codex, skills folder or $skill-installer
Codex reads skills from .agents/skills in your working folder and its parent folders up to the repository root, and from $HOME/.agents/skills for every repository. Copy the skill's folder into one of them, or run $skill-installer inside Codex and ask it to install from the repo. Codex detects new skills automatically and needs a restart only if one does not appear.
The first command is quoted from the author's README. The others are the standard ways to install a skill from a GitHub repository. They are templates and may not apply here, for example if the repo has no plugin marketplace, so follow the README first.
The production stages this skill covers, and where Pencil0 picks up.
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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.
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.
This is a third-party skill. It is not maintained or audited by Pencil0, and skills can run scripts on your machine, so read the SKILL.md and any scripts before installing. Stars, license and dates are a GitHub snapshot and may be out of date.