# Stories & short dramas: agent skills for AI short dramas and story videos

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Scripts, story structure, short dramas, series and multi-shot storytelling. 11 skills for Claude Code, Codex and Grok, by type: workflows take a brief to a finished video, effects and styles change how it looks, prompts and guides teach the agent the craft, models run the generation.

## Skills (11)

### Effects (1)

- [Pain Metric Falls Away](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/pain-metric-falls.md) — HeyGen: A painful metric (hours, cost, errors) draws a falling line while the number counts down and the mood lifts.

### Guides (6)

- [fal Storytelling](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/fal-storytelling.md) — fal: Plan multi-shot stories: storyboards, shot lists, first-to-last-frame chains and continuity across scenes.
- [Drama Skills (ZenStory)](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/zenstory-drama-skills.md) — ZenStory AI: Short-drama skills that beat a no-skill control in blind tests: script, assets, storyboard, keyframe and video prompts.
- [Screenwriting Skills](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/screenwriting-skills.md) — Terry Jia: 26 screenwriting and dramaturgy skills, from story structure to writing in the style of Ozu, Chekhov or Succession.
- [Emma Short-Drama Writing Skills](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/emma-screenwriting.md) — Emma Wang, beta: Short-drama writing kit (hooks, outlines, dialogue, trims, US localization) that beat a no-skill control in blind tests.
- [Short Drama Skill Finder](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/short-drama-skill-finder.md) — Underleveled Builder: Picks short-drama and manju skills from a hand-checked list of 90+ projects by stage, video model and agent.
- [AI Video Script](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/ai-video-script.md) — aguo333, beta: Turns a topic into a video script: shot list, per-shot image/video prompts and voiceover text

### Workflows (4)

- [Shuohao Short-Drama Skills](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/shuohao-short-drama.md) — Wesley Wang: Seven chained skills from novel to AI short drama: characters, outline, art bible, script, staging, storyboard.
- [AI Short Drama Studio](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/ai-short-drama-studio.md) — Hao0321: Greenlight score, series bible, episode compiler and production pack for serialized AI short dramas and manju.
- [Baidu Wenku AI Picture Book](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/ai-picture-book.md) — ide-rea, beta: Turns a story text into a static or animated picture-book video through Baidu Wenku
- [dLazy Image Storyboard](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/dlazy-image-storyboard.md) — dlazyai, beta: Plan-first storyboard workflow: specs, character sheet and script approved before each panel is rendered