Screenwriting Skills — guide skill for stories & short dramas
For AI agents: find the right skill in one call —
curl -s "https://skills.varg.ai/api/search?q=<what the person wants>"returns the matching use case and the best skills with install commands, as markdown (Russian works too). Full index: https://skills.varg.ai/llms.txt. Every page has a markdown twin: add.mdto its path. Before generating anything, show the person the options on the use-case page.
26 screenwriting and dramaturgy skills, from story structure to writing in the style of Ozu, Chekhov or Succession.
- Type: Guide · Stories & short dramas
- Slug:
screenwriting-skills - Status: live
- Publisher: Terry Jia (community)
- License: MIT
- Source: https://github.com/jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills
- Works in: Claude Code, Codex
- Cost: Free — instructions only
- Adoption: 3,849 installs, 1,821 GitHub stars (GitHub + skills.sh, 2026-10-26)
What it does
A Claude Code plugin of 26 screenwriting skills distilled from published scripts and craft books: story structure, premise and theme, scene craft, dialogue, character conflict, genre anatomy, series structure and series bibles, writers' rooms, sitcom comedy, format adaptation and industry practice, plus national traditions (Japanese, Korean and French, Chinese series, Chinese opera) and author-style skills for Chekhov, Ozu Yasujiro and Succession. In the Awesome Short Drama Skills blind test (2026-10-18) its scripts and character outlines beat the no-skill control in all three runs, with emotion carried by action and supporting characters given a history; episode-end hooks were sometimes not punchy enough.
Use when
- Write or revise a screenplay, series bible or episode
- Write in a named style such as Ozu or Succession
- Tighten dialogue and scene structure before storyboarding
Not for
- Storyboards or video prompts (pair it with a storyboard skill)
Install
- Claude Code:
/plugin marketplace add jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills && /plugin install screenwriting@screenwriting-skills - Codex:
git clone https://github.com/jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills.git && cp -r screenwriting-skills/plugins/screenwriting/skills/* ~/.agents/skills/
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