book-screenplay

book-screenplay is a skill for Claude Code from epicsagas/Velith. It costs 54 tokens per session (1,060 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of patterns for writing film screenplays. It covers story acts, scene structure, dialogue, formatting, and the weaving of main and secondary storylines.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to outline a three-act film, design sequences and scenes, format scene headings, shape dialogue, and balance A, B, and C stories.
Why use it?
It provides concrete structure for planning a screenplay instead of leaving plot progression and scene purpose undefined.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the velith plugin — 18 skills, 12 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to outline a three-act film, design sequences and scenes, format scene headings, shape dialogue, and balance A, B, and C stories.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/epicsagas/velith/book-screenplay
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add epicsagas/Velith --skill book-screenplay
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/epicsagas/Velith

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install velith, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills, 12 agents.

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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,060 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00054 $0.01060
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00530
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00212
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00106

Measured 2d ago against content hash 18ff17666ae5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

book-screenplay 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 2d 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/book-screenplay/SKILL.md · 78 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 78 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Screenplay

A screenplay is a document for collaborators, read by people who read hundreds. It must be fast, visual, and impossible to put down on page 10. Novelistic interiority does not exist here; everything the audience learns, they see or hear.

Structure

  • Three acts by page: feature 90-120 pages; Act 1 to ~25, Act 2 to ~85, Act 3 to end. One page ≈ one minute.
  • Eight sequences (two per act in 1 and 3, four in 2), each 12-15 pages with its own mini-arc: status quo → disruption → strategy → complication → crisis → decision → new status quo. Sequences prevent the second-act sag.
  • Beat placement: inciting incident by page 10-12; first-act turn ~25; midpoint ~55 (a reversal, not an event); low point ~75; third-act turn ~85.
  • TV: cold open, act breaks at commercial points (4-5 acts for network, 3 for streaming), A/B/C stories per episode, season arc bible with per-episode outlines. Pilot must establish the engine (what generates episodes forever).
  • Web series: 8-15 pages per episode, hook in the first 30 seconds, cliffhanger every episode.
  • Short: 5-30 pages, one turn, no subplot.

Scene

  • Slug line: INT./EXT. LOCATION - DAY/NIGHT. Location names consistent across the script (bible).
  • Every scene: someone wants something, something is in the way, the scene ends with the situation changed. Outcome: yes-but, no-and, no-but.
  • Enter late, leave early. Cut the arrival, the greeting, the goodbye.
  • Action lines: present tense, only what can be seen or heard, 3-4 lines max per paragraph, white space is pacing. No "we see." No camera directions unless writer-director.
  • Character introduction: NAME in caps at first appearance, age, one telling detail. Not a paragraph of backstory.

Dialogue

  • Subtext over statement. Characters talk around the thing.
  • Distinct voice per character: rhythm, vocabulary, what they never say. Cover the names; the reader should still know who is speaking.
  • Monologues ≤ 5 lines unless the script earns a set piece.
  • Parentheticals rarely; the actor decides.
  • V.O. and O.S. sparingly and consistently.
  • Korean: 존댓말/반말 relationships fixed per pair in the bible; a shift is a story event. 지문 in 현재형.

Read the full file on GitHub · 78 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. 2d ago Changed · +53 lines · +24 tokens per session 18ff17666ae5
  2. 8d ago First seen · 25 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 24978605d3ba

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book-screenplay is a skill published in the GitHub repository epicsagas/Velith (33 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 1,060 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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