What is this?
A collection of 13 Claude Code skills that teach an AI agent the craft of screenwriting, television writing and dramaturgy, distilled from 19 Chinese, American and Japanese screenwriting books plus the complete works of Chekhov and Ozu Yasujiro.
A collection of 13 Claude Code skills that teach an AI agent the craft of screenwriting, television writing and dramaturgy, distilled from 19 Chinese, American and Japanese screenwriting books plus the complete works of Chekhov and Ozu Yasujiro.Is this a Claude Code skill package rather than a standalone writing app?Yes — each of the 13 topics is a folder with a SKILL.md (principles, checklists, workflow) and usually a reference.md (tables, excerpts); there's nothing to run yourself, Claude Code loads these to guide its own writing process.
Yes — each of the 13 topics is a folder with a SKILL.md (principles, checklists, workflow) and usually a reference.md (tables, excerpts); there's nothing to run yourself, Claude Code loads these to guide its own writing process.How do I start using these skills?The repo doesn't spell out install commands beyond its Install heading; based on the stated conventions, each skill folder's SKILL.md frontmatter (kebab-case name matching the folder) is what Claude Code scans, so you drop the skill folders where your Claude Code setup looks for skills and let sw-workflow orchestrate the rest.
The repo doesn't spell out install commands beyond its Install heading; based on the stated conventions, each skill folder's SKILL.md frontmatter (kebab-case name matching the folder) is what Claude Code scans, so you drop the skill folders where your Claude Code setup looks for skills and let sw-workflow orchestrate the rest.Do I need Claude Code to use these skills?Yes — these are skills written for Claude Code, not a standalone program; without an agent environment that reads SKILL.md files, the Chinese-language markdown is just reference notes.
Yes — these are skills written for Claude Code, not a standalone program; without an agent environment that reads SKILL.md files, the Chinese-language markdown is just reference notes.Will I be able to read the skill content if I don't know Chinese?Only the SKILL.md frontmatter descriptions are in English; the actual principles, checklists, tables and quoted excerpts inside every skill are written in Chinese, since the 19 source books and the Chekhov/Ozu corpora are Chinese translations.
Only the SKILL.md frontmatter descriptions are in English; the actual principles, checklists, tables and quoted excerpts inside every skill are written in Chinese, since the 19 source books and the Chekhov/Ozu corpora are Chinese translations.What's unusual about the license here?Despite GitHub listing MIT, the README itself says the license is for personal study use only, and that quotations remain the property of their original authors and translators — so the extracted book content isn't necessarily covered by a standard MIT grant.
Despite GitHub listing MIT, the README itself says the license is for personal study use only, and that quotations remain the property of their original authors and translators — so the extracted book content isn't necessarily covered by a standard MIT grant.How are the 13 skills organized?sw-workflow orchestrates the rest, which cover story structure, premise/theme, character/conflict, dialogue, scene craft, format/adaptation, American and Japanese/Korean/French case studies, industry/business, plus two dedicated skills built from Chekhov's plays and Ozu's screenplays.
sw-workflow orchestrates the rest, which cover story structure, premise/theme, character/conflict, dialogue, scene craft, format/adaptation, American and Japanese/Korean/French case studies, industry/business, plus two dedicated skills built from Chekhov's plays and Ozu's screenplays.Can these skills actually output an industry-standard script file?sw-format-adaptation defines a Fountain output contract with forced markers for Chinese text, plus PDF/.fdx render paths, alongside the exact spec-format typographic grid and element conventions like V.O./O.S. and dual dialogue.
sw-format-adaptation defines a Fountain output contract with forced markers for Chinese text, plus PDF/.fdx render paths, alongside the exact spec-format typographic grid and element conventions like V.O./O.S. and dual dialogue.Why are Chekhov and Ozu handled separately from the craft-book skills?chekhov-dramaturgy and ozu-screenplay-style are distilled from complete master-work corpora (Chekhov's seven full-length plays and Ozu's six screenplays) rather than theory books, giving act-by-act tables and excerpts as a working method pulled straight from the works.
chekhov-dramaturgy and ozu-screenplay-style are distilled from complete master-work corpora (Chekhov's seven full-length plays and Ozu's six screenplays) rather than theory books, giving act-by-act tables and excerpts as a working method pulled straight from the works.Is there a related project for non-screenwriting creative work?The author mentions a sister project, japanese-composition-skills, which applies the same book-distillation approach to Japanese music composition and arranging.
The author mentions a sister project, japanese-composition-skills, which applies the same book-distillation approach to Japanese music composition and arranging.What are similar projects?human-writing, asd-ste100-skill, Humanizer-zh, linkedin-agent-skill, humanizer, lieflat-gongwen, sun-style-writing, AI-drama-pound
human-writing, asd-ste100-skill, Humanizer-zh, linkedin-agent-skill, humanizer, lieflat-gongwen, sun-style-writing, AI-drama-poundWhich topics is it in?creative-writing, writing-tools, writing, chinese-language, claude-code-skill, book, skills, claude, agent-skills, claude-code, terminal, chinese
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