Agent skill

60-Second Cinematic Story Director

by karuvanan in karuvanan/MiniMax-H3-Director-Cut-Studio

Adapts prose or rough story material into a roughly 60-second MiniMax H3 short with shot planning, Mandarin dialogue and voice-over, and a strong ending.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedMedia & Creative

Install 60-Second Cinematic Story Director

skills CLI
$ npx skills add karuvanan/MiniMax-H3-Director-Cut-Studio --skill cinematic-story-60s-director -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install karuvanan/MiniMax-H3-Director-Cut-Studio cinematic-story-60s-director --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/karuvanan/MiniMax-H3-Director-Cut-Studio.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/'skill special/cinematic-story-60s-director' .claude/skills/cinematic-story-60s-director && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
cinematic-story-60s-director
GitHub stars
132
Token cost
~1.8k tokens
SKILL.md length
916 words
Files
3
Skills in repo
13
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Adapts prose or rough story material into a roughly 60-second MiniMax H3 short with shot planning, Mandarin dialogue and voice-over, and a strong ending.

  • Turning a short story or article into a 60-second video plan
  • SKILL.md covers Adapt Before Structuring, Plan the Duration, Build Cinematic Causality and Respect Reference Authority, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Planning shots, Mandarin dialogue and voice-over together

What it does

Long prose, background material or a rough story can be pasted in and adapted into a short film of about 60 seconds for MiniMax H3, instead of authoring every shot and line by hand. The agent reads the whole source first and pulls out the central objective, relationship, conflict, hidden information, escalation, climax and final reversal, favoring visible decisions, behavior and reactions over explanation.

Planning starts from a 60-second target with normally eight to twelve consecutive, non-overlapping shots on a 0.5-second grid that cover the timeline from the start with no gap. Generated speech is budgeted before shot boundaries are final, with lines rewritten as concise natural Mandarin, and the timeline may be extended modestly only if compression would damage the core conflict. Silent beats are reserved, the last half second to one second is a stable final hold, and every shot has to change information, objective, risk, relationship, location or physical state. The skill is used together with the bound Default H3 Prompt Writing Skill.

When your agent uses it

  • Turning a short story or article into a 60-second video plan
  • Planning shots, Mandarin dialogue and voice-over together
  • Compressing long background material into a cinematic arc
  • Keeping characters consistent across shots with reference images

Example prompts

  • “Adapt this short story into a 60-second MiniMax H3 film with Mandarin voice-over.”
  • “Turn the attached chapter into eight to twelve shots with a strong final reversal.”
  • “Compress this company history into a one-minute cinematic short with speech-safe timing.”

Requirements

  • The bound Default H3 Prompt Writing Skill

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9bdc33d. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

60-Second Cinematic Story Director loads about 1.8k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 109 tokens; SKILL.md has 916 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~109
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.8k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 916 words (~1,751 tokens).

“Apply this Special Skill together with the bound Default H3 Prompt Writing Skill. Treat the user's story as adaptation source material unless the user separately labels words as exact authored Dialogue, Voice-over, Lyrics or On-screen Text.”

— opening of SKILL.md by karuvanan, Custom licence
name
cinematic-story-60s-director

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files in skill special/cinematic-story-60s-director of karuvanan/MiniMax-H3-Director-Cut-Studio.

  • SKILL.md
  • DESIGN_REQUIREMENT.txt
  • SKILL.cn.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9bdc33d

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Questions about 60-Second Cinematic Story Director

What does 60-Second Cinematic Story Director do?

Adapts prose or rough story material into a roughly 60-second MiniMax H3 short with shot planning, Mandarin dialogue and voice-over, and a strong ending. Long prose, background material or a rough story can be pasted in and adapted into a short film of about 60 seconds for MiniMax H3, instead of authoring every shot and line by hand. The agent reads the whole source first and pulls out the central objective, relationship, conflict, hidden information, escalation, climax and final reversal, favoring visible decisions, behavior and reactions over explanation.

When should I use 60-Second Cinematic Story Director?

60-Second Cinematic Story Director fits situations like: turning a short story or article into a 60-second video plan; planning shots, Mandarin dialogue and voice-over together; compressing long background material into a cinematic arc; keeping characters consistent across shots with reference images.

How do I install 60-Second Cinematic Story Director in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add karuvanan/MiniMax-H3-Director-Cut-Studio --skill cinematic-story-60s-director -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skill special/cinematic-story-60s-director in karuvanan/MiniMax-H3-Director-Cut-Studio) into .claude/skills/cinematic-story-60s-director in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install 60-Second Cinematic Story Director in Codex?

Run `npx skills add karuvanan/MiniMax-H3-Director-Cut-Studio --skill cinematic-story-60s-director -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skill special/cinematic-story-60s-director in karuvanan/MiniMax-H3-Director-Cut-Studio) into .agents/skills/cinematic-story-60s-director in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use 60-Second Cinematic Story Director in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add karuvanan/MiniMax-H3-Director-Cut-Studio --skill cinematic-story-60s-director -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/cinematic-story-60s-director, .gemini/skills/cinematic-story-60s-director, .github/skills/cinematic-story-60s-director and .opencode/skills/cinematic-story-60s-director in your project.

What does 60-Second Cinematic Story Director need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: 60-Second Cinematic Story Director is instructions for the agent only. Our summary lists: The bound Default H3 Prompt Writing Skill.

Does 60-Second Cinematic Story Director access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is 60-Second Cinematic Story Director safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does 60-Second Cinematic Story Director use?

60-Second Cinematic Story Director has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does 60-Second Cinematic Story Director use?

About 1.8k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to 60-Second Cinematic Story Director?

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Who maintains 60-Second Cinematic Story Director?

karuvanan (a GitHub user) maintains it in karuvanan/MiniMax-H3-Director-Cut-Studio, which has 132 GitHub stars. The repository holds 13 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 11, 2026.

Source: karuvanan/MiniMax-H3-Director-Cut-Studio on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.