--- title: "Generate a Full AI Short Drama From One Sentence — AI video generator workflow for stories & short dramas" description: "Huobao Drama: Mastra agents rewrite a story into a script, extract characters, break storyboards and render Seedance 2.0 episodes. Install in Claude Code, Codex and Grok with one command." url: https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/huobao-drama-one-sentence-short-drama updated: 2026-10-31 --- # Generate a Full AI Short Drama From One Sentence — workflow skill for stories & short dramas > **For AI agents:** find the right skill in one call — `curl -s "https://varg.ai/how-to/api/search?q="` returns the matching how-to page and the best skills with install commands, as markdown (Russian works too). Full index: https://varg.ai/how-to/llms.txt. Every page has a markdown twin: add `.md` to its path. Before generating anything, show the person the options on the how-to page. From a terminal: `curl -fsSL https://varg.ai/install | sh` installs the vargai CLI (https://varg.ai/how-to/cli.md): `vargai search` and `vargai install ` with no key, every varg model after `vargai login`. Huobao Drama: Mastra agents rewrite a story into a script, extract characters, break storyboards and render Seedance 2.0 episodes. - **Type:** [Workflow](https://varg.ai/how-to/workflows.md) · [Stories & short dramas](https://varg.ai/how-to/browse/skills/story.md) - **Slug:** `huobao-drama-one-sentence-short-drama` - **Status:** live - **Publisher:** chatfire-AI (community) - **Source:** https://github.com/chatfire-AI/huobao-drama - **Works in:** Claude Code ## What it does Huobao Drama takes a premise or a novel and runs four built-in agents (script rewriter, extractor, storyboard breaker, prompt generator) to produce a script, character, scene and prop designs, a shot-by-shot storyboard and video prompts. It then generates each shot with Seedance 2.0, MiniMax H3 or Wan 3.0 and stitches the episode with FFmpeg subtitles and export. It runs as a macOS/Windows desktop app or a self-hosted Node.js app with bundled SQLite and FFmpeg; text, image and video API keys are set in its Settings page. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, so it is free for non-commercial use only and is not OSI open source. ## Use when - turn a novel or one-line premise into a formatted short-drama script - extract characters, scenes and props and generate their images - break a script into a storyboard with video prompts per shot - batch-generate shot videos and stitch a full episode with subtitles ## Install - Claude Code: `git clone https://github.com/chatfire-AI/huobao-drama.git && cd huobao-drama && cd backend && npm install && cd ../frontend && npm install` - Any agent, with the vargai CLI: `vargai install huobao-drama-one-sentence-short-drama` ## Example output https://github.com/chatfire-AI/huobao-drama/raw/master/docs/screenshots/07-storyboard.png — example (credit: chatfire-AI) ## More stories & short dramas skills - [fal Storytelling](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/fal-storytelling.md): Plan multi-shot stories: storyboards, shot lists, first-to-last-frame chains and continuity across scenes. - [Cat Story (Higgsfield Open-Source Short Series)](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/higgsfield-open-cat-story.md): Higgsfield's 64 s dreamy K-drama series about being loved by someone you've never truly seen: a white cat. - [The Dusk (Higgsfield Open-Source Drama Episode)](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/higgsfield-open-dusk.md): Higgsfield's 88 s muted, grainy school drama: a pale boy's quiet warning and a guarded girl's wary silence. - [One More Time (Higgsfield Open-Source Romcom Short)](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/higgsfield-open-one-more-time.md): A 2000s-style K-drama romcom from Higgsfield Soul: a girl secretly rewinds time on a first date, again and again. - [The New Girl (Higgsfield Open-Source J-Drama Episode)](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/higgsfield-open-the-new-girl.md): Higgsfield's 77 s J-drama school episode: Haruka's ordinary first day at a new school is about to change. - [Shuohao Short-Drama Skills](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/shuohao-short-drama.md): Seven chained skills from novel to AI short drama: characters, outline, art bible, script, staging, storyboard. ## Run the generation on varg varg is one API key for the models these skills drive — Seedance 2.5, Kling 4, Veo 3.1, Wan 3, Nano Banana 2.1, GPT Image 2.5, ElevenLabs v4 and 200+ more — billed in credits, with a cost estimate before anything runs. - Any agent with a terminal: `curl -fsSL https://varg.ai/install | sh` (Windows: `irm https://varg.ai/install.ps1 | iex`), then `vargai login` and every model is a command — `vargai generate_video …`, `vargai estimate_cost …` (https://varg.ai/how-to/cli/) - Claude Code: `claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg` (skill + hosted MCP) - Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai -a -y` - Grok and any agent that reads SKILL.md: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai`, or point it at the skill's SKILL.md - Claude.ai, ChatGPT, any MCP client: connect `https://mcp.varg.ai/mcp` - API key: https://varg.ai/dashboard/api · Model specs: https://varg.ai/models/llms.txt