Skill

Shanyin Screenwriting Master

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.

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01Author
Shanyin (山音)
03Stars
1,248 · as of Oct 3, 2026
04Last updated
Apr 1, 2026
05License
MIT
06Works with
Any agent
07Content language
Chinese
08Domains
Filmmaking
09Stages
Screenwriting
SC 01Overview

What it does

You describe the story you want to tell, and the skill picks one of four format tracks (concept ultra-short, short film, feature or series) and loads the matching method notes; series start with season planning and episode outlines. It then works through up to eight stages one at a time: core idea, synopsis, characters, backstory and world, outline, scene breakdown, scene writing and a script check. It pauses after each stage so you can approve, revise or ask for a self-check, and it writes only what a camera could film, with no inner narration and no dialogue that explains the setting or theme. The repo ships a .skill bundle that Claude or GPT can import and a single-file Markdown edition for other chat tools; the README asks users to keep the author credit and not to resell the skill.

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 Shanyin-ai/shanyin-screenwriting-master
  • 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 Shanyin-ai/shanyin-screenwriting-master
  • 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.