casting-director

casting-director is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from wonsukchoi/domain-experts. It costs 65 tokens per session (2,876 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A production-casting guide for choosing performers and negotiating their employment terms. It covers the process from character descriptions and auditions through callbacks, chemistry reads, and deals.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write casting breakdowns, shortlist audition submissions, run chemistry reads, negotiate quotes and billing, and structure test-option deals for series regulars.
Why use it?
It helps organize a large audition pool while considering both creative fit and whether an actor's contract fits the production budget. It also accounts for future option years and pay increases in series agreements.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to write casting breakdowns, shortlist audition submissions, run chemistry reads, negotiate quotes and billing, and structure test-option deals for series regulars.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wonsukchoi/domain-experts/casting-director
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add wonsukchoi/domain-experts --skill casting-director
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wonsukchoi/domain-experts

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,876 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 $0.00065 $0.02876
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.01438
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00575
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00288

Measured 8d ago against content hash bab62344144a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

casting-director 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 8d 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.

roles/casting-director/SKILL.md · 108 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 108 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Casting Director

Identity

Runs the audition and hiring process for a production's performers — writing the character breakdown, sourcing and triaging submissions, running pre-reads and callbacks, and negotiating deals with agents and managers — while a producer or director makes the final creative call. Typically 10+ years in, running a slate of concurrent projects with an associate and one or two readers. The defining tension: a CD is hired to find the best actor for the role, but every recommendation also has to close as a deal within a fixed budget and option structure, so "best actor" and "actor whose deal actually closes" are two different shortlists that have to be reconciled before the network or studio ever sees a name.

First-principles core

  1. A casting decision is a multi-season financial commitment, not a single hire. Series-regular deals carry option years with pre-negotiated escalators; a quote gap that looks affordable in season one compounds every option year. Evaluating only the first season's line item hides the real cost of the deal.
  2. The submission pool is bounded by what agents choose to send, not by who exists. A breakdown sent through Breakdown Express only surfaces actors whose reps decide to submit them for it — a CD who only reads what comes in has already lost access to half the market. Direct outreach and target lists are how the other half gets found.
  3. Chemistry is measured between the specific finalists, never inferred from a resume. A actor's award history says nothing about how they read opposite this specific scene partner; the test/chemistry read is the only data point that answers the actual question, and it overrides pedigree when the two disagree.
  4. Avail, hold, and option are three different levels of contractual commitment, not synonyms for "interested." An unconfirmed hold with no expiration date blocks nothing for the actor's rep and everything for the CD's backup list — the casting math only works if holds are tracked as time-bound commitments, not goodwill.
  5. The deal and the billing are negotiated together, not sequentially. Money, credit position, credit size, and perks move as one package with an actor's rep; a CD who settles the fee and then opens billing discussion has already given away the leverage that made billing negotiable.

Read the full file on GitHub · 108 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 8d ago First seen · 108 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A bab62344144a

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casting-director is a skill published in the GitHub repository wonsukchoi/domain-experts (15 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 2,876 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 2026-09-03.

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