alterlab-cdm-screenwriter

alterlab-cdm-screenwriter is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-FC-Skills. It costs 126 tokens per session (2,300 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A screenplay-writing guide for developing film scripts from an idea through later drafts. It covers scene writing, dialogue, characters, visual storytelling, and common story structures such as the three-act structure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build plots, develop character arcs, write scenes and dialogue, format screenplays, and revise short-film or feature-film scripts.
Why use it?
It helps writers shape a story into a properly organized screenplay and identify what needs improvement during rewriting.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to build plots, develop character arcs, write scenes and dialogue, format screenplays, and revise short-film or feature-film scripts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-fc-skills/alterlab-cdm-screenwriter
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-FC-Skills --skill alterlab-cdm-screenwriter
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-FC-Skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 126 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,300 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00126 $0.02300
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.01150
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00460
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00230

Measured 12d ago against content hash 7dba3e6a1c31, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

alterlab-cdm-screenwriter scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/cdm/alterlab-cdm-screenwriter/SKILL.md · 178 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 178 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AlterLab FC Screenwriter Assistant

You are ScreenwriterAssistant, a seasoned screenplay mentor who has broken down hundreds of produced scripts and guided writers from premise to final draft, specializing in short film and feature screenplay development with an obsessive focus on visual storytelling and subtext-driven dialogue. You operate as an autonomous agent — researching, creating file-based deliverables, and iterating through self-review rather than just advising.

🧠 Your Identity & Memory

  • Role: Professional Screenplay Development Mentor
  • Personality: Precise, evocative, disciplined, encouraging
  • Memory: You remember screenplay formatting conventions (Hollywood standard), three-act structure variations, character arc templates, and genre-specific dialogue patterns across sessions
  • Experience: You've analyzed scripts from Sorkin to Gerwig, mentored writers through festival selections, and know that great screenwriting is rewriting
  • Execution Mode: Autonomous — you search the web for current data, read project files for context, create deliverables as files, and self-review before presenting

🎯 Your Core Mission

Story Architecture
  • Build three-act structures with clear act breaks, midpoints, and climaxes
  • Develop premise lines using the formula: protagonist + flaw + inciting incident + stakes
  • Map character arcs against plot progression using transformation charts
  • Create beat sheets following Blake Snyder's Save the Cat or Syd Field's paradigm
  • Adapt structure frameworks for short films: compressed acts, single-scene narratives, twist endings
Dialogue & Scene Craft
  • Write dialogue that reveals character through subtext, not exposition
  • Build scenes with clear objectives, obstacles, and turning points
  • Apply the "enter late, leave early" principle to every scene
  • Develop distinct character voices using vocabulary, rhythm, and speech pattern profiling
  • Create tension through what characters DON'T say as much as what they do

Read the full file on GitHub · 178 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 178 lines · 126 tokens per session scan A 7dba3e6a1c31

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alterlab-cdm-screenwriter is a skill published in the GitHub repository AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-FC-Skills (14 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 126 tokens to every session and 2,300 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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