AI Short Drama Skills
A curated directory of agent skills for AI short drama (micro drama, vertical drama) and AI manju, for Claude Code, Codex and other agents: novel adaptation, episode scripts, hooks and paywall points, storyboards, character assets and prompts for Seedance, Kling and MiniMax. 82 skill projects and 14 open-source platforms, organized by production stage and video model.
Every entry was checked by hand against its README; 102 more projects were reviewed and declined, each with a reason. Data updated 2026-10-16.
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By production stage
- Topic selection · IP evaluation5 skills
- Adaptation (novel → script)21 skills
- Characters · character assets26 skills
- Structure · episode outlines · hooks23 skills
- Script · dialogue41 skills
- Review · QA · de-AI27 skills
- Storyboard · shot design46 skills
- Video / image prompts55 skills
- Video generation · voiceover · editing16 skills
By video model
- Seedance / Jimeng33 skills
- MiniMax H314 skills
- Kling6 skills
- Wan (Tongyi Wanxiang)4 skills
- ComfyUI (local)5 skills
- Nano Banana3 skills
- Veo3 skills
- Sora2 skills
Suggested stacks
Projects that work together toward one goal. A first pass based on each README; not yet tested.
- Adapting a novel into a short dramaYou have a novel and need scripts and storyboards
- Original hit scripts for Hongguo / DouyinTurn a one-line idea into an episode-by-episode script ready to launch
- Rendering with SeedanceYou already have a script and need storyboards and prompts Seedance can use
- Long-running manju serialMake a manju of dozens of episodes without characters or foreshadowing falling apart
Featured
Short-drama production skill set: character breakdown, adaptation outline, scene and prop art design, script, storyboard
Full pipeline for short drama / manju: novel breakdown, development, script, character assets, storyboard, image/video prompts, review
Turns a novel or story into multi-episode video scripts and storyboards, producing Seedance 2.0 prompts
The most systematic screenwriting-theory set here: structure, Truby, scenes, dialogue, series bible, writers' room, with cases from Japan, Korea, France, the US and Chinese opera
Manju Lao Li: full AIGC manju directing workflow with gated scripts, asset locking, storyboard, model-ready feed prompts and rule-based QC
New this week
Shanyin Super Screenwriting Master: characters, outline, scene breakdown and full script in four formats: concept micro-film, narrative short, feature and multi-episode series
Prompts for the Higgsfield platform: MCSLA formula, Seedance 2.5 multi-reference directing, performance direction, Soul ID character consistency, shot lists and failure diagnosis
- zy-cinematic-realism★ 588
Zaomengshi (Dreammaker): develops a script, story or scene idea into motivated narrative keyframes, compiled into native prompts for each image model, with sequential image sets and result fixes
Shanyin Super Director Master: script → director's tone-setting, pacing plan, script tweaks, storyboard breakdown, output as a nine-column storyboard sheet (xlsx), with built-in genre director-style templates
Seedance 2.5 prompt library plus skill: picks a T2V/R2V/I2V route, Seedream storyboards, multi-reference and shot-continuity design
- ComfyUI-Agent-Kit★ 106
Drives a local ComfyUI for image and video generation, with Seedance and MiniMax H3 video-prompt skills: multi-shot storyboards, reference-asset tagging, failure troubleshooting
AI fight-scene prompts: character-specific moves, cause-and-effect exchange chains, cross-shot continuity, in three versions (high intensity, slow pace, in between) for Seedance and H3
- ai-short-drama★ 44
Xuefeng payoff drama: expands one line into a full brief, writes episode scripts on a payoff-beat model while syncing character/scene/prop files, then breaks shots into Seedance 2.0 prompts
- seedance-skill★ 40
Clay-render-driven Seedance workbench: renders clay reference videos from scene.json with geometry checks, can reverse-engineer a clay model from a photo, and writes prompts from the clay geometry
Acheng director engine: script, storyboard, five-track performance for dialogue scenes, cause-and-effect chains for fights, VFX and assets, compiled into MiniMax H3 / Seedance prompts
Vibe Video: runs open-source MiniMax H3 on AutoDL to render video; its short-drama template chains brief, episode synopses, script and dialogue, art and video, with H3 prompt-writing guidance
Story → storyboard script; subagents draw per-shot line art in parallel, an HTML review board sends chosen shots back for revision, and approved shots become video prompts in shot order
- spark-video★ 34
One-line premise → script, storyboard, character/scene/prop consistency, rendering and per-shot AI QC through to a final mp4, with a confirmation gate at each stage
Five-minute short-drama scripts: one question per step locks genre niche, theme, structural archetype and the first-30-second opening, then four-act beat outline → full script → storyboard script
Multi-style fight-scene design: choreography, spatial blocking, camera and VFX rules; can first output image prompts for position/trajectory maps, then write video prompts following the trajectories
- ai-film-skills★ 19
Skills extracted from the pipeline of the AI action film CROW LINE: Seedance 2.5 reference-to-video prompt direction, with triptych character sheets for cross-shot consistency
- ai-manga-drama★ 17
AI manju workshop: eight-step flow from one-line idea to final video with task-card scripts, character reference library, style anchors, storyboard, image/video prompts, voiceover, subtitles and final compositing check
Hardcore Director: film and AI video controller that routes by stage to screenwriting/short drama, characters and scenes, storyboard, Seedance 2.5/Wan 3.0/H3 prompts, sound and editing modules
Seedance 2.5 prompting: character binding to reference assets, 30 camera-move definitions with conflict rules, R2V/clay renders, local edits and extensions, multi-round revision flow
MiniMax H3 manju director: web novel to storyboard, core vs. extra asset tiers, long takes for dialogue and fast cuts for fights, action-continuity locks, last-frame relay, a whole episode's prompts in one pass
- xiaxia★ 14
Xiaxia: turns an approved script into a director's storyboard with duration budgets, camera positions and focal lengths, real light sources, blocking and action causality, compilable into Seedance 2.5 tasks
AI manju director: script + existing assets → Seedance 2.0/2.5 storyboard-group prompts, covering character performance, direction and cinematography, scene assets, blocking diagrams, continuity and sound
Chinese epic scenes: expands a one-line premise into a xianxia/mythology short-film story, builds a continuity ledger, and outputs paired image and video prompts per shot
Skill pack organized like film departments: writing, directing, characters, art, cinematography, storyboard, shot list, prompts, sound and editing, dispatched and QC'd by a supervisor skill
By type
All-in-one: script → storyboard → video 23
Complete workflows that go from a one-line idea or a novel to storyboards, video prompts or even the finished video.
Short-drama production skill set: character breakdown, adaptation outline, scene and prop art design, script, storyboard
Full pipeline for short drama / manju: novel breakdown, development, script, character assets, storyboard, image/video prompts, review
Manju Lao Li: full AIGC manju directing workflow with gated scripts, asset locking, storyboard, model-ready feed prompts and rule-based QC
End-to-end short-drama automation: script, character design, storyboard, image and video generation, and submission
- OnlyShot★ 322
Shenxianyu short-drama pipeline: one line → script, storyboard, storyboard images, video and editing in five steps, with 17 documented failure modes
Screenwriting: scripts · adaptation · review 9
Focused on the script itself: episode outlines, hooks, paywall points, dialogue and review.
- short-drama-factory★ 387
Industrial short-drama writing for Douyin/Hongguo: a one-line idea or a web novel → a 60–100 episode script with paywall points, plus hook, cliffhanger and twist formulas and machine-check rules
Short drama / manju script review: 37 rules distilled from experience running Hongguo Top 100 shows
Short drama / manju screenwriting: Save the Cat methodology plus analysis of 31 hit short dramas
Five-minute short-drama scripts: one question per step locks genre niche, theme, structural archetype and the first-30-second opening, then four-act beat outline → full script → storyboard script
Adversarial script pitfall diagnosis: uses 37 criteria to look only for problems in your story
Storyboards · visual assets · video prompts 39
Turn a script into shots: storyboards, character and scene assets, and prompts for video models.
Turns a novel or story into multi-episode video scripts and storyboards, producing Seedance 2.0 prompts
- seedance2-skill★ 4.3k
Generates video prompts for Seedance 2.0
- awesome-seedance★ 2.1k
Seedance 2.5/2.0 prompt library: 600+ cases traceable to original posts and 260+ cross-model retests, with skills
Prompts for the Higgsfield platform: MCSLA formula, Seedance 2.5 multi-reference directing, performance direction, Soul ID character consistency, shot lists and failure diagnosis
Structured prompt-writing method for Seedance 2.0, with a general-purpose skill
Upstream: IP evaluation and story breakdown 3
Before adapting, decide whether a story is worth shooting and how to break it down.
Film and TV development and evaluation: novel/IP evaluation, plot-point breakdown, character bios and relationships, outline, adapting novels into short drama or long series
Translates your story into film-development language: quick diagnosis, a screenwriter's adaptation reader, a director's audiovisual reader, an actor's reader and a producer's summary
Hit-novel teardown: breaks a hit novel or manju into a verifiable narrative system for adaptation reference
Screenwriting fundamentals 5
Screenwriting theory beyond short drama: structure, scenes, dialogue, characters.
The most systematic screenwriting-theory set here: structure, Truby, scenes, dialogue, series bible, writers' room, with cases from Japan, Korea, France, the US and Chinese opera
Shanyin Super Screenwriting Master: characters, outline, scene breakdown and full script in four formats: concept micro-film, narrative short, feature and multi-episode series
Script writing for Chinese feature films and long-form series
Screenwriting knowledge engine: turns Vogler/McKee/Save the Cat into an Obsidian story wiki with 15-beat pacing, three-layer character cards and structural diagnosis
Kunka Screenwriting Master: Chinese-first screenwriting skill set covering ideation, revision, continuity checks and series development
Companion: de-AI 3
Makes scripts and dialogue read less like AI wrote them.
- humanizer★ 57.6k
Removes signs of AI writing following Wikipedia's "Signs of AI writing" list
- human-writing★ 4.1k
Human-voice writing: makes AI-written Chinese read like a specific person talking, suited to polishing dialogue and narration
- sepia★ 3.2k
De-AI for fiction: repairs narrative structure and matches style rules to the venue, with methods from the StoryScope paper
Related open-source platforms (full apps, not skills) 14
Self-hostable short-drama and manju production platforms; not skills, listed for comparison. See [awesome-ai-video](https://github.com/zhaotoday/awesome-ai-video) for more.
Toonflow: open-source AI short drama / manju platform with script, smart storyboarding, character and scene assets, image and video generation, on an infinite canvas with agents
Huobao Drama: generates a complete short drama from one sentence, fully automated from script to final video
Industrial-grade end-to-end AI film and video agent platform, from shorts to controllable live-action output
ViMax from HKU: agentic video generation combining director, screenwriter, producer and video generator in one
End-to-end AI short-drama workspace: script input, structured storyboarding, consistency management, video generation