--- title: "Lock Cast and Sets Before Storyboarding Short Dramas for Seedance and H3 — AI video generator workflow for stories & short dramas" description: "One director plus 12 sub-agents: genre routing, gated script, asset locks, fight and drama storyboards, Seedance/H3 prompts and QC. Install in Claude Code, Codex and Grok with one command." url: https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/short-drama-director-asset-locks updated: 2026-10-31 --- # Lock Cast and Sets Before Storyboarding Short Dramas for Seedance and H3 — 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`. One director plus 12 sub-agents: genre routing, gated script, asset locks, fight and drama storyboards, Seedance/H3 prompts and QC. - **Type:** [Workflow](https://varg.ai/how-to/workflows.md) · [Stories & short dramas](https://varg.ai/how-to/browse/skills/story.md) - **Slug:** `short-drama-director-asset-locks` - **Status:** live - **Publisher:** lixiaoxiao9888-create (community) - **Source:** https://github.com/lixiaoxiao9888-create/manju-laoli-skill/tree/main/short-drama-director - **Works in:** Claude Code ## What it does A director skill (short-drama-director) routes each request to 12 sub-skills for market recon, script, assets, storyboard, fight scenes, explainers, overseas versions and QC. It asks you to confirm six locks (project, source, model, aspect ratio and more), freezes characters, scenes and props before storyboarding, and outputs copy-ready seven-part Seedance 2.5/2.0 prompt groups or MiniMax H3 six-part drafts plus an offline storyboard board. Validator scripts check a draft against 32 rules before delivery. It writes prompts only; images and video are made on your own platform. Chinese, MIT license, built for OpenClaw, Coze, Dify and WorkBuddy. ## Use when - lock characters, scenes and props before writing storyboards - write seven-part Seedance 2.5 or 2.0 prompts for each shot group - convert storyboards to MiniMax H3 native prompts - design fight scenes and micro-expression drama beats - machine-check a prompt draft before feeding a video model ## Install - OpenClaw: `openclaw skills install ./short-drama-director --as short-drama-director` - Any agent, with the vargai CLI: `vargai install short-drama-director-asset-locks` ## 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