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jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills agent skills

Every skill in the jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills repository on GitHub, ranked by score, with the commands to install them.
skills
25
GitHub stars
1.6k

GitHub description: “Professional agent skills for screenwriting, television writing and dramaturgy”

Stars
1,621 (171 forks)
Licence
MIT
Last push
Oct 2026
Created
Sep 2026
  • ai
  • skills

Install all skills

skills CLI (any agent)
npx skills add jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills

Add --skill <name> for a single skill and -a <agent> to choose the agent (see the agent guides).

Skills in jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills, ranked

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Skills in jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills, ranked
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1

Writing screenplays in the style of Ozu Yasujiro and Noda Kogo (小津安二郎・野田高梧) — distilled from six complete screenplays (晚春 Late Spring, 麦秋 Early Summer, 东京物语 Tokyo Story, 浮草 Floating Weeds, 秋日和 Late…

jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills1.6k—~2.9kAutomated safety check: PassMIT8 days ago
2

Story structure for screenplays and stage plays (故事结构) — merged from Syd Field's paradigm and plot points, Blake Snyder's Save the Cat beat sheet and board, Robert McKee's Story…

jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills1.6k—~3.2kAutomated safety check: PassMIT8 days ago
3

Writing plays and screenplays in the Chekhovian mode (契诃夫戏剧法) — distilled from the complete plays (没有父亲的人/普拉东诺夫, 伊凡诺夫, 林妖→万尼亚舅舅, 海鸥, 三姊妹, 樱桃园, nine one-acts) plus Chekhov's own letters…

jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills1.6k—~3.5kAutomated safety check: PassMIT8 days ago
4

Writing a Succession-style ensemble series (继承之战群像剧写法) — distilled from Jesse Armstrong's complete shooting scripts for all four seasons, 39 episodes (Faber 2023), with his introductions and…

jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills1.6k—~4.7kAutomated safety check: PassMIT8 days ago
5

Case studies of American screenwriting (美国电影剧作案例) — Mei Feng's readings of the Hollywood Western (value pairs, four oppositions), screwball comedy (strong heroine, buddy vs adversary two-hander)…

jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills1.6k—~2.5kAutomated safety check: PassMIT8 days ago
6

Character creation, protagonist/antagonist design and dramatic conflict for scripts (人物/对手/冲突) — merged from Lajos Egri (three-dimensional character, orchestration, unity of opposites, pivotal…

jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills1.6k—~3kAutomated safety check: PassMIT8 days ago
7

Playwriting for banqiang-system Chinese opera (板腔体:京剧、豫剧、越剧、秦腔、评剧、沪剧、淮剧、川剧弹戏), where sung passages are paired seven- or ten-character lines varied by metre (板式) rather than filled into fixed tune…

jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills1.6k—~4.5kAutomated safety check: PassMIT8 days ago
8

Worked full-length scripts of banqiang-system Chinese opera with their creation records (板腔体全本语料库).

jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills1.6k—~4kAutomated safety check: PassMIT8 days ago
9

Chinese opera playwriting for the qupai (曲牌体) system — 元杂剧, 明清传奇, 昆曲, 川剧高腔, where sung text is filled into fixed tune patterns (填词) rather than built from paired lines varied by metre.

jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills1.6k—~4.1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT8 days ago
10

Worked qupai-system (曲牌体) opera scripts, act by act. An agent skill from jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills.

jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills1.6k—~4.2kAutomated safety check: PassMIT8 days ago
11

Mainland-Chinese TV-series craft, documents and production chain (国产剧创作体系与制片链) — the China layer parallel to the Japanese and Korean/French skills.

jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills1.6k—~5kAutomated safety check: PassMIT8 days ago
12

Dialogue writing and revision for screen and stage (对白/台词/潜台词) — merged from Robert McKee's Dialogue (dialogue as action, said/unsaid/unsayable, exposition as ammunition, beat = action/reaction…

jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills1.6k—~2.4kAutomated safety check: PassMIT8 days ago
13

Screenplay format, page craft, the writing process and adaptation (剧本格式/写作流程/改编) — merged from Wendy Henson (spec format rules), Richard Walter (page craft, revision), Neill Hicks (selling vs…

jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills1.6k—~3.4kAutomated safety check: PassMIT8 days ago
14

The screenwriting business and career (编剧行业与生意经) — merged from Diamond & Weissman's Bulletproof (buyer's-eye workflow, three Cs, one-page nine-step, set pieces, submission, notes, resilience), Eric…

jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills1.6k—~2.4kAutomated safety check: PassMIT8 days ago
15

Japanese (and other non-Hollywood) screenwriting methods (日本编剧方法/原创剧本实战) — distilled from ten Japanese directors and writers in ゼロからの脚本術; Kosawa Ryota (three acts as 起承转合, speed by jumping), Uchida…

jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills1.6k—~2.1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT8 days ago
16

Korean and French screenwriting practice (韩国/法国编剧方法) — from the international masterclass; Oh Seung-uk (Christmas in August, The Shameless; field research in disguise, "write the emotion", first act…

jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills1.6k—~2.1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT8 days ago
17

Premise, theme, controlling idea, subject selection and logline for scripts (前提/主题/立意/选材/戏核) — merged from Lajos Egri's premise-as-tyrant and dialectic, Robert McKee's controlling idea (value +…

jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills1.6k—~2.3kAutomated safety check: PassMIT8 days ago
18

Scene and sequence craft (场景/段落/细节/道具/悬念/情趣) — merged from Robert McKee's scene design and five-step scene analysis (value turn, beats, text/subtext, turning points, pacing, image systems), McKee's…

jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills1.6k—~2.3kAutomated safety check: PassMIT8 days ago
19

Half-hour television comedy craft (半小时情景喜剧/笑点力学/困境机器/多机位单机位格式) — merged from Evan S.

jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills1.6k—~5.1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT8 days ago
20

Organic story anatomy from John Truby's The Anatomy of Story (有机结构/设计原则/22步骤/道德议题/四角对立/幽灵/场景编排) — the designing principle (story process plus original execution), the seven key steps as the organic…

jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills1.6k—~2.3kAutomated safety check: PassMIT8 days ago
21

Project orchestrator for the screenwriting skill set (剧本项目主线调度 / 状态存档 / story bible) — a meta-skill that adds no new craft knowledge but routes a screenplay or stage-play project through stages…

jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills1.6k—~3.4kAutomated safety check: PassMIT8 days ago
22

Genre anatomy from John Truby's The Anatomy of Genres (类型解剖 / 类型节拍 / 混合类型 / 超越类型) — genres as beat systems with a life philosophy underneath; three rules (hit every beat of your genre, mix three or…

jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills1.6k—~5.6kAutomated safety check: PassMIT8 days ago
23

Case studies of television series writing (剧集案例库) from primary texts; Sorkin's six West Wing teleplays (act-page tables, eight act-out types); Chase's five Sopranos scripts (the 35-beat A/B/C/D…

jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills1.6k—~5.8kAutomated safety check: PassMIT8 days ago
24

From an idea to a sellable series design; series engine / franchise, story pattern, character webs that keep generating conflict, pilot types, and the documents that sell them…

jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills1.6k—~6.7kAutomated safety check: PassMIT8 days ago
25

Episode and season structure for TV series (剧集单集与季的结构) — teasers and cold opens, broadcast four/five/six-act grids with page anchors, three tests for finding the invisible acts in streaming scripts…

jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills1.6k—~5.9kAutomated safety check: PassMIT8 days ago

Questions, answered from the data.

What is the best skill in jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills?

Ozu Screenplay Style from jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills ranks first of the 25 skills in jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 1.6k GitHub stars, its SKILL.md loads about 2.9k tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come Sw Story Structure and Chekhov Dramaturgy.

Are the skills in jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills official?

None yet. All 25 skills in jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills listed here come from community repositories; a skill counts as official when the product's own GitHub organization publishes it.

How do I install all skills from jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills?

Run npx skills add jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills in your project: the open-source skills CLI installs the repository's skills into your coding agent's skills folder. To install a single skill, open its page here for the exact command.

How are these skills ranked?

By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.