# AI Short Drama Studio — workflow skill for stories & short dramas

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Greenlight score, series bible, episode compiler and production pack for serialized AI short dramas and manju.

- **Type:** [Workflow](https://skills.varg.ai/workflows.md) · [Stories & short dramas](https://skills.varg.ai/browse/skills/story.md)
- **Slug:** `ai-short-drama-studio`
- **Status:** live
- **Publisher:** Hao0321 (community)
- **License:** MIT
- **Source:** https://github.com/Hao0321/ai-short-drama
- **Works in:** Claude Code, Codex
- **Requires:** Python 3 (lint scripts)
- **Cost:** Free — planning and writing; generation billed by whichever models you route to
- **Adoption:** 6 installs, 74 GitHub stars (GitHub + skills.sh, 2026-10-26)

## What it does

A single skill with eight modes for serialized AI short dramas, manju and live-action-style vertical series: genre radar and format routing, a greenlight score, series bible and asset registry, shot-by-shot timelines, payoff and reveal ladders, episode scripts, serialization state, production packs, resumable generation and QA with results fed back. Media prompts are delegated to the author's companion ai-media-generator skill, and Python lint scripts validate the studio plan and production pack against JSON schemas. In the Awesome Short Drama Skills tests its character outlines beat the no-skill control in all three runs (its scripts were mixed), and it placed 3rd (Opus judge) and 1st (GPT judge) of 12 entrants for topic selection, judged the most original.

## Use when

- Plan a season of a vertical short drama
- Compile an episode into a shot timeline and production pack
- Audit why a short drama is not landing

## Not for

- Writing the media prompts themselves (route them to a prompt skill)

## Install

- Claude Code: `git clone https://github.com/Hao0321/ai-short-drama.git ~/.claude/skills/ai-short-drama`
- Codex: `git clone https://github.com/Hao0321/ai-short-drama.git ~/.codex/skills/ai-short-drama`

## Used for

- [AI short film or series](https://skills.varg.ai/use-cases/short-film.md): A multi-shot story with consistent characters: script, storyboard, previz, shots, edit.
- [Same character in every scene](https://skills.varg.ai/use-cases/consistent-character.md): One mascot, trainer or actor that looks identical across many images and clips.

## More stories & short dramas skills

- [fal Storytelling](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/fal-storytelling.md): Plan multi-shot stories: storyboards, shot lists, first-to-last-frame chains and continuity across scenes.
- [Shuohao Short-Drama Skills](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/shuohao-short-drama.md): Seven chained skills from novel to AI short drama: characters, outline, art bible, script, staging, storyboard.
- [Drama Skills (ZenStory)](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/zenstory-drama-skills.md): Short-drama skills that beat a no-skill control in blind tests: script, assets, storyboard, keyframe and video prompts.
- [Screenwriting Skills](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/screenwriting-skills.md): 26 screenwriting and dramaturgy skills, from story structure to writing in the style of Ozu, Chekhov or Succession.
- [Emma Short-Drama Writing Skills](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/emma-screenwriting.md): Short-drama writing kit (hooks, outlines, dialogue, trims, US localization) that beat a no-skill control in blind tests.
- [Short Drama Skill Finder](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/short-drama-skill-finder.md): Picks short-drama and manju skills from a hand-checked list of 90+ projects by stage, video model and agent.