narrative-to-screen-reader
zhlmi/narrative-to-screen-reader
narrative-to-screen-reader is an agent skill project by zhlmi on GitHub: 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. It covers topic, adaptation and characters. 122 stars, last updated 2026-10-01, no license declared.
Editor's notes
Input can be a long role-play chat log, a novel, an outline or a draft script, and anything over 50KB is read in batches. It first settles the narrative frame (whose story this is), showing a frame-inference card for the user to choose when frames compete, then runs a quick diagnosis graded A/B/C/D/D0 and stops until the user confirms before writing any full reader. Every reader is written to a Markdown file, with only a summary and links in the chat, and the last stage can produce an AI screenplay prompt pack. The repo includes 7 sample PDFs built from a story titled 调音师; the docs are in Chinese and no license is declared.
- Type
- Upstream: IP evaluation and story breakdown
- Stages
- Topic · Adaptation · Characters
- Format
- Agent skill
- Language
- Chinese
- GitHub stars
- ★ 122
- Last updated
- 2026-10-01
- License
- None declared
- SKILL.md files
- 1
- Checked by hand
- 2026-10-13
In the author's words
A narrative-translation skill that analyzes the story you have and translates it into the language of film and TV development
Translated from the Chinese original.
Skills in this repo (1)
Names and descriptions come from each SKILL.md frontmatter; Chinese descriptions are shown in our English translation.
- narrative-to-screen-reader
Turns narrative text into multi-purpose readers for the film and TV development stage. Works with long role-play chat logs, short stories, excerpts from longer novels, plot outlines, first-draft screenplays, interactive narratives and more; triggers when the user asks for tasks such as "screenplay interpretation, actor's reader, director's statement, screen adaptation analysis, adaptation analysis, short story to film development document, pre-screenplay story analysis, analysis for actors/screenwriters/directors/producers, AI screenplay prompt pack". Output can be split by target audience: full development reader, actor's reader, screenwriter's adaptation reader, director's audiovisual reader, producer's brief, AI screenplay prompt pack, quick diagnosis.
Install
npx skills add zhlmi/narrative-to-screen-reader
# pick agents (claude-code / codex / cursor / opencode / gemini-cli / openclaw)
npx skills add zhlmi/narrative-to-screen-reader -a claude-code -a codexDefault commands use the skills CLI and were not verified one by one; follow the repo README. Read SKILL.md before installing. Install guide →
Part of these stacks
- Adapting a novel into a short drama: You have a novel and need scripts and storyboards
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