Agent skill

Story Five Elements

by VanGong1999 in VanGong1999/screen-creative-skills

Analyze five core story elements — genre type, story summary, character biographies, character relationships, and major plot points — producing a structured comprehensive report with optional mind…

MITAuto-check passedWriting & Content

Install Story Five Elements

skills CLI
$ npx skills add VanGong1999/screen-creative-skills --skill story-five-elements -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install VanGong1999/screen-creative-skills story-five-elements --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/VanGong1999/screen-creative-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/english-version/category/story-analysis/story-five-elements .claude/skills/story-five-elements && 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
story-five-elements
GitHub stars
446
Token cost
~781 tokens
SKILL.md length
203 words
Files
3 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
62
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Analyze five core story elements — genre type, story summary, character biographies, character relationships, and major plot points — producing a structured comprehensive report with optional mind…

  • Works in 5 steps: Preprocess — if text exceeds context… → Analyze each element — for each of the… → Cross-reference — verify character… → …
  • Preparing for script adaptation
  • SKILL.md covers Five Core Elements, Workflow, Input Requirements and Output Format, plus 1 more section
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Story Five Elements is an agent skill from VanGong1999/screen-creative-skills. Analyze five core story elements — genre type, story summary, character biographies, character relationships, and major plot points — producing a structured comprehensive report with optional mind map. Use when preparing for script adaptation, conducting deep story analysis, creating story development documentation, or evaluating overall story quality and market potential.

Its SKILL.md is about 780 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 3 other files, including reference files (for example `references/examples.md` and `references/guide.md`). Compatibility notes: Claude Code 1.0+

It sits in Writing & Content. The repository describes itself as: Skills for Film and Television Creation Agents|31 个影视创作评估策划Agent Skills|AI影视自动化工作流|竖屏短剧长剧IP改编|情节题材提炼|剧本小说IP创作策划评估|人物小传|拉片人物剧集故事五元素分析|大纲生成|. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Preparing for script adaptation
  • Conducting deep story analysis
  • Creating story development documentation
  • Evaluating overall story quality and market potential

Example prompts

  • “/story-five-elements”

Requirements

  • Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Claude Code 1.0+

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Preprocess — if text exceeds context limits, split at chapter or scene boundaries with 200-word overlap to preserve continuity.
  2. Analyze each element — for each of the five elements above, extract evidence directly from the text. Quote or paraphrase key passages as…
  3. Cross-reference — verify character biographies align with relationship descriptions; confirm plot points match the story summary's…
  4. Compile report — assemble findings in the output format below.
  5. Generate mind map (optional) — produce a text-based mind map linking the five elements.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 6ced54f. 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.

  • Compatibility

    Claude Code 1.0+

    From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Story Five Elements loads about 781 tokens when it runs, and up to ~6.8k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 99 tokens; SKILL.md has 203 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~99
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~781
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~6.8k

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

The full file from VanGong1999/screen-creative-skills at commit 6ced54f, republished under its MIT licence (© VanGong1999). 203 words, ~781 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/story-five-elements/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 2 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
story-five-elements
description
Analyze five core story elements — genre type, story summary, character biographies, character relationships, and major plot points — producing a structured comprehensive report with optional mind map. Use when preparing for script adaptation, conducting deep story analysis, creating story development documentation, or evaluating overall story quality and market potential.
compatibility
Claude Code 1.0+
license
MIT
metadata.category
story-analysis
metadata.version
2.1.0
metadata.last_updated
2026-01-11
metadata.maintainer
Gong Fan
metadata.model
opus

Story Five Elements Analysis Expert

Five Core Elements

ElementWhat to Produce
Genre & Creative ElementsPrimary/secondary genres, unique creative hooks, tone, and style markers
Story Summary300–500 word narrative covering setup, escalation, climax, and resolution
Character BiographiesFor each major character: background, motivation, personality traits, arc
Character RelationshipsRelationship types, power dynamics, evolution across the story
Major Plot PointsKey turning points mapped to three-act structure (setup, confrontation, resolution)

Workflow

  1. Preprocess — if text exceeds context limits, split at chapter or scene boundaries with 200-word overlap to preserve continuity.
  2. Analyze each element — for each of the five elements above, extract evidence directly from the text. Quote or paraphrase key passages as supporting evidence.
  3. Cross-reference — verify character biographies align with relationship descriptions; confirm plot points match the story summary's narrative arc.
  4. Compile report — assemble findings in the output format below.
  5. Generate mind map (optional) — produce a text-based mind map linking the five elements.

Input Requirements

  • Complete story text (supports long text)
  • Text length: No limit (system will automatically process long text)

Output Format

[Story Five Elements Analysis Report]

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
I. Genre Type and Creative Element Extraction
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[Genre types, creative elements, story features, style characteristics]

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
II. Story Summary
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[Complete story summary, 300-500 words]

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
III. Character Biographies
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[Biographies generated for each main character]

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
IV. Character Relationships
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[Character relationship types, relationship characteristics, relationship development process]

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
V. Major Plot Points
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[Main plot points arranged by development stage]

References

See {baseDir}/references/ for detailed worked examples and analysis techniques:

  • examples.md — full analysis examples across genres (urban emotion, court intrigue, suspense mystery)
  • guide.md — complete five-elements analysis guide

© VanGong1999, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files (references) in english-version/category/story-analysis/story-five-elements of VanGong1999/screen-creative-skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/examples.md
  • references/guide.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6ced54f

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Questions about Story Five Elements

What does Story Five Elements do?

Analyze five core story elements — genre type, story summary, character biographies, character relationships, and major plot points — producing a structured comprehensive report with optional mind…. Story Five Elements is an agent skill from VanGong1999/screen-creative-skills. Analyze five core story elements — genre type, story summary, character biographies, character relationships, and major plot points — producing a structured comprehensive report with optional mind map.

When should I use Story Five Elements?

Story Five Elements fits situations like: preparing for script adaptation; conducting deep story analysis; creating story development documentation; evaluating overall story quality and market potential.

How do I install Story Five Elements in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add VanGong1999/screen-creative-skills --skill story-five-elements -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (english-version/category/story-analysis/story-five-elements in VanGong1999/screen-creative-skills) into .claude/skills/story-five-elements in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Story Five Elements in Codex?

Run `npx skills add VanGong1999/screen-creative-skills --skill story-five-elements -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (english-version/category/story-analysis/story-five-elements in VanGong1999/screen-creative-skills) into .agents/skills/story-five-elements in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Story Five Elements 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 VanGong1999/screen-creative-skills --skill story-five-elements -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/story-five-elements, .gemini/skills/story-five-elements, .github/skills/story-five-elements and .opencode/skills/story-five-elements in your project.

What does Story Five Elements need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Story Five Elements is instructions for the agent only. Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Claude Code 1.0+.

Does Story Five Elements 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 Story Five Elements 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 Story Five Elements use?

Story Five Elements is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Story Five Elements use?

About 781 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.1k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 6k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

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Who maintains Story Five Elements?

VanGong1999 (a GitHub user) maintains it in VanGong1999/screen-creative-skills, which has 446 GitHub stars. The repository holds 62 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on May 26, 2026.

Source: VanGong1999/screen-creative-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.