Write Shorts, Features, and Series With the Shanyin Screenwriting Skill

Most screenwriting prompts give you a wall of generic script text and hope. shanyin-screenwriting-master — the 山音超级编剧大师 skill by AIGC creator 山音, a 1k-star Chinese-language repository — instead encodes a format-aware pipeline: whatever length and track you name, it walks character design, structure, scene breakdown, and a standard-format screenplay.

Why This Skill Matters

The README documents full-format coverage in four tiers. Concept micro-shorts run 1-3 minutes along two named directions, how-to-tell and what-if. Narrative shorts cover 5-10 minutes with a complete story arc, aimed at short video and short-film competitions. The 90-minute feature tier splits into two tracks: commercial films (strong plot, high payoff beats) and art films (deep emotion, strong texture). Multi-episode series support both seasonal and anthology architectures, with a full-series outline, per-episode scripts, and character growth arcs.

Underneath the formats sits one workflow: character design (personality, motivation, growth arc, contrast traits), structural outlines (the classic models three-act and hero's journey, plus genre frameworks for suspense, sci-fi, romance, and crime), scene breakdown at shot level (camera-language hints, emotional beats, transition design), and the final screenplay in standard formatting — scene numbers, action lines, dialogue, transitions.

Installation

There is no npx command — this skill ships as a .skill package for the Claude app. The README's steps: download the repository's .skill file, open the Claude app or web version, enter the Skills module, click Import Skill, and select the file. For GPT-class tools that accept .skill or .zip files the same import works; for other AI tools such as Gemini, the README points at the integrated markdown edition (集成版) — drag that file into the chat to start.

Two inventory notes from a 2026-11-02 look at the repository: the README describes the package as 山音超级编剧大师.skill, while the file in the repo is actually named screenwriting-master（Claude&GPT通用）.skill — same package, different name. And the README mentions an optional examples/ folder of cases (sci-fi concept shorts, art-film outlines, urban series scripts) that was not present in the repository at that date.

Real Workflow: A 90-Second Concept Short

1. Import the skill and state your concept in plain language — natural-language input triggers it directly.
2. Narrow the format: say you want a concept micro-short and pick a direction, how-to-tell or what-if.
3. Feed it the three upgrade levers the README documents for precision:
   • Audience: teenagers, adult viewers, or overseas markets.
   • Style tags: the README's own examples are a Wes Anderson texture (韦斯・安德森质感), Nolan-style suspense (诺兰悬疑风), and a Miyazaki-style healing tone (宫崎骏治愈风).
   • Platform fit: short-video pacing, theatrical feature runtime, or weekly-series logic.
4. Work the pipeline outputs in order — character sheets, structural outline, scene breakdown — and revise each before the next; the skill produces the final screenplay in standard format with scene numbers, action, dialogue, and transitions.

The same flow scales up: declare a 90-minute commercial feature and the dual-track framing applies; declare a series and you get the full-series outline plus per-episode scripts.

Tips

• The license is MIT with strings attached: keep the original 山音 attribution, and do not resell, bundle commercially, or ship the skill file itself as a paid product's core component. The skill itself may be used for personal or commercial script writing.
• The integrated markdown edition is the lowest-friction way to try the pipeline in a tool without a Skills importer.
• The README documents style tags as an interaction pattern, not a fixed menu — the named directors are its examples, so your own tags are fair input.
• The author's README bio lists AIGC credits including 2025 初心榜 top-ten AIGC figures and multiple AI film festival awards — relevant if you care whose workflow you are adopting.

When Not to Use This

The README and the skill's own name are Chinese-only, and the README documents no English-language workflow. If your script must land in English or needs the specialized formatting of dedicated screenwriting software, this skill does not claim to cover that. And if you want story analysis or adaptation of existing scripts, the documented scope is original script creation, not coverage of those tasks.

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