The novel character analysis skill I open-sourced has been starred by nearly 2,000 people. Today I spent some time making the following updates: adjusted the character image generation prompts (added animation style support), optimized the report page layout produced by the skill, and added multilingual report support. Project URL: https://github.com/eternityspring/shuohao-skills… Fixing the characters first is just the first step of the Long March for AI short-drama production. To build a complete AI short-drama workflow, this kind of character analysis skill is only a tiny piece. Next, I’ll continue exploring reports based on this skill and build a storyboard skill.

eternityspring/shuohao-skills

Source: https://github.com/eternityspring/shuohao-skills

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shuohao-skills

A collection of skills for AI coding agents. Works with both Claude Code and codex.

Feed it a novel, and you get this:

Character Settings Pack Report

Install

git clone https://github.com/eternityspring/shuohao-skills.git
cd shuohao-skills
./scripts/install.sh

It auto-detects whether Claude Code or codex is installed on your machine and symlinks all skills to them — changes take effect immediately after git pull, no reinstall needed.

./scripts/install.sh novel-characters  # install only one skill
./scripts/install.sh --codex           # install only to codex
./scripts/install.sh --uninstall       # remove symlinks

If you’d rather not use the script, just create the links yourself:

ln -s "$PWD/skills/novel-characters" ~/.claude/skills/novel-characters
ln -s "$PWD/skills/novel-characters" ~/.codex/skills/novel-characters

Prerequisites

Repository Conventions

Each skill lives in its own directory, self-contained and can be copied out individually:

skills/<skill-name>/
├── SKILL.md            # The workflow an agent reads (required)
├── README.md           # Documentation for humans
├── scripts/
│   ├── <name>.mjs      # Deterministic tools, zero dependencies
│   └── selftest.mjs    # Self-test, no model calls (required)
├── references/         # Detailed instructions loaded on demand
├── examples/           # Built-in samples, also used as test fixtures
└── assets/             # Screenshots

Two hard requirements:

• Every skill must have a SKILL.md
• Every skill must have a scripts/selftest.mjs that doesn’t call the model, doesn’t cost quota, and covers all deterministic logic

Before adding a new skill, run all the self-tests first:

for f in skills/*/scripts/selftest.mjs; do node "$f"; done

No CI configured — the self-tests are fast enough (1 second) that running locally is more convenient than waiting on CI. Only verified on macOS + Node 24; the code has no platform-specific calls, so Linux and older Node versions should theoretically work, but haven’t been verified.

License

Apache 2.0

Shuohao (@eternityspring): After getting MiniMax H3 running locally, everyone thought the barrier to AI short dramas had collapsed.

But when I actually started working on it, I realized that to turn a novel into a script and then storyboard it, you must first lock down the characters.

I open-sourced a skill specifically for this, and it works with both Claude Code and Codex:

• Drop a novel in, and the AI automatically extracts each character: character profile + cartoon visual prompt + voice prompt