cuelight-shortdrama

What problem does it solve?

This Skill solves the challenge of creating commercially viable short dramas, web-series adaptations, and micro-dramas with high audience retention. It provides a complete local authoring workflow for developing story concepts, characters, episode outlines, and production-ready scripts without requiring the CueLight CLI for initial creative work.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Structured Story Design: Uses proven frameworks for dream-order storytelling, character arcs, and information gap mechanics to maximize emotional payoff and viewer retention.
• Local Project Scaffolding: Automatically creates standardized project directories with manifest files, briefs, concepts, character bibles, story machines, season outlines, and episode templates.
• Quality Validation: Includes Python scripts to validate episode body length against 120-second targets (850-1300 Chinese characters) and enforce Chinese drama formatting standards.
• Use Case: A creator with a web novel premise can use this Skill to expand it into a 24-episode short drama series with detailed character bibles, story machines, and production-ready episode scripts saved locally.

Quick Start

Use the cuelight-shortdrama skill to create a local short drama project from your story premise and generate the first episode script with proper Chinese drama formatting.