jtydhr88 releases screenwriting-skills, a 26-skill pack for Claude Code and Codex that a writer installs today

A writer who watches coding agents from the outside now has a pack of ready-made skills built for scripts, series and stage work. jtydhr88 opened the screenwriting-skills repository on 6 September 2026 and it reached 1,371 stars and 155 forks by 24 September, read from api.github.com/repos/jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills at 03:20 UTC. It is MIT-licensed and the latest push was on 22 September.

What is in the pack

The repository ships 26 skills for two agent platforms: Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex. jtydhr88 groups them in four layers.

The general layer holds nine skills for the core of the craft: story structure, premise and theme, character, dialogue, scene work and format. The medium layer covers series and episode shapes, plus a set built for Chinese opera, using the banqiang and qupai systems. The tradition and trade layer holds five skills for the specific practices of American, Japanese, Korean, French and Chinese series work. The master corpora layer holds four full-text analyses of specific bodies of work, including Chekhov, Ozu and the HBO series Succession.

The claim behind the skills

jtydhr88 says the skills were, in the README's exact words, "distilled from 47 craft books and 23 volumes of published scripts, scores and plays (Chinese, American, British, Japanese and Korean)." The quotations belong to their authors, translators and publishers; the skills themselves are MIT. There is no independent audit of that source list, so read the claim as jtydhr88's own.

Written in Chinese, used in any language

The bodies of the skills are written in Chinese, because most of the source books were either written in Chinese or translated into Chinese first. The README states this out loud: "Ask in your own language. The skill bodies are written in Chinese, because most of the sources are Chinese originals or Chinese translations." A user querying the agent in English, French, Japanese or Korean gets the answer in that language. This is worth naming because it changes the experience: a screenwriter in Paris or Los Angeles reads only their own language while the underlying craft references sit in the source language.

Installation is either through the plugin marketplace or by copying the skill files into the local skill directory. The repository does not require a build step, and the README documents both paths.

A repository like this puts a coding assistant to work on something other than code. A working screenwriter installs the pack, opens Claude Code or Codex, and gets 26 structured helpers for the specific parts of the job the tools answer weakly when asked cold. Whether the 47-book distillation holds up as craft advice is a question a screenwriter can only answer by using it on a real script. The 1,371 stars in 18 days say the audience is real; the quality of what the skills produce is for a writer to judge in their own draft.

Source

• jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills on GitHub, MIT-licensed, README and repository metadata verified 24 September 2026. Stars, forks and dates read from api.github.com/repos/jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills at 03:20 UTC.