drama-skills

Drama Skills is a ten-skill pipeline for producing AI short dramas and motion comics, the vertical-video serial format that is enormous in China and creeping into Western apps. Hand it an idea or a long source text and it carries the work through episode scripts, visual continuity, storyboards, image and video prompts, generation, and a cut list that renders into a finished film. MIT, Python 3.9 or newer, running inside Claude Code, Codex, or any runtime that supports Agent Skills.

The interesting part is where it came from. The team ran a motion-comic studio through more than a thousand projects and roughly 80,000 lines of in-house GUI tooling, then threw the GUI away and distilled the whole line into skills that operate on plain Markdown. Each episode is five files. Confirmation comes before production: prompts land in files first, and the production skill shows you the exact count, references, parameters, and adapter before it executes anything.

Anyone producing serialized AI video at volume should look hard at this. Everyone else probably should not. The value is workflow discipline, not any individual prompt, and that only pays off past a certain output rate. Free at every team size.

The catch is language and the bill behind the pipeline. Project files are named in Chinese by default and the primary README is Chinese, with the English translation trailing it. The skills are free but the pixels are not: the production step drives external adapters with bundled profiles for Seedance, GPT Image 2, MiniMax video, and MiniMax Music, every one of them billed to your own keys. That confirmation gate exists because those runs cost real money.