Skill

Novel to AI Short Drama

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.

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01Author
muxia0396
03Stars
30 · as of Oct 3, 2026
04Last updated
Sep 4, 2026
05License
MIT
06Works with
Codex
07Content language
Chinese
08Domains
Short drama · Filmmaking · AI video
09Stages
Screenwriting · Storyboard
SC 01Overview

What it does

You supply the source text and the runtime of one episode; if the runtime is missing, the skill stops and asks instead of guessing. It builds a fact ledger of the original, budgets seconds per story beat, turns narration and inner thoughts into visible action or sound, and splits the result into shots with size, angle, movement, performance, dialogue and AI-generation cautions. Shot durations must add up exactly to the target runtime, output defaults to 9:16 vertical, and multi-episode requests get a continuity ledger across episodes. The repo ships reference docs and sample before-and-after comparisons, plus a script that only checks the skill package's own structure.

SC 02Install

How to install it

  • 01skills 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 muxia0396/novel-to-ai-short-drama-skill
  • 02Claude 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.

  • 03Claude 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 muxia0396/novel-to-ai-short-drama-skill
  • 04Codex, 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.

We could not quote an install command from this repo's README. The commands listed here are the generic ones for any skill repository and may not apply, so check the README first.

SC 03Fit

Where it fits in a film pipeline

The production stages this skill covers, and where Pencil0 picks up.

SC 04Related

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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.