How to use Film Studio Skills: what you can do with it

5 use cases

• Turn a script into scene tables and shot cards

  Break a script or one-paragraph idea into a scene table and one 22-field shot card per scene.

  • REPO machina-exm/film-studio-skills
  • Claude Code
  • Codex
  • Content
  • Intermediate
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  Using the film-studio-skills repo, run /setup, /studio-init, and /film-breakdown on <script file>. Expected output: a scene table and one shot-card file per scene in the project folder. Verify that every shot card has all 22 fields filled before stopping.

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• Lock a recurring character before filming their shots

  Build a character passport and pass the stress test so its registry row reads locked.

  • REPO machina-exm/film-studio-skills
  • Claude Code
  • Codex
  • Content
  • Intermediate
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  Using the film-studio-skills repo, run /asset-passport and /stress-test for the character <character name>. Expected output: a passport with a full descriptor and a registry row marked locked or draft. Verify that the row is locked only if all test prompts scored 10 out of 10.

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• Write shot prompts only after assets are locked

  Generate 15-block shot prompts that refuse to run while any in-frame asset is still draft.

  • REPO machina-exm/film-studio-skills
  • Claude Code
  • Codex
  • Content
  • Advanced
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  Using the film-studio-skills repo, run /shot-prompt on the shot card <shot card file> with its locked passports. Expected output: a 15-block prompt with no negative prompt section and the descriptors pasted verbatim. Verify that the skill refuses to write the prompt if any in-frame asset is still draft.

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• Build a visual bible from approved reference images

  Caption reference boards, ban anti-references, and record an approve, revise, or reject decision.

  • REPO machina-exm/film-studio-skills
  • Claude Code
  • Codex
  • Content
  • Beginner
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  Using the film-studio-skills repo, run /reference-board on the reference images in <folder>. Expected output: a visual bible with captioned references, a ban list, and a written decision per board. Verify that no board is treated as locked without an approved decision.

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• Scaffold a film project folder with pipeline rules

  Create the assets, prompts, generations, and selects folders with the rules written in.

  • REPO machina-exm/film-studio-skills
  • Claude Code
  • Codex
  • Content
  • Beginner
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  Using the film-studio-skills repo, run /setup and then /studio-init for a project named <project name>. Expected output: a project tree with assets, prompts, generations, selects, and docs folders. Verify that the docs folder contains the breakdown, visual bible, registry, and generation log templates.

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Quick start with Film Studio Skills

1. Check you have what it needs: An agent harness that loads skills: Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, or OpenCode; Access to the image model and video model you plan to use, named during /setup; A script, treatment, or one-paragraph idea for the film.
2. Open machina-exm/film-studio-skills on GitHub and read the README and license.
3. Install the seven skills by copying the folders from skills/ into ~/.claude/skills/, or run npx skills add for your harness.
4. Run /setup and answer one question at a time about the image and video models you use.
5. Run /studio-init and give the project name.
6. Run /film-breakdown and paste your script, treatment, or idea, then answer its questions scene by scene.

These steps come from our top use case, Turn a script into scene tables and shot cards, which also has a copy-paste agent prompt.

Using the Deduped MCP, get the setup steps for machina-exm/film-studio-skills

claude mcp add --transport http deduped https://dedupedai.com/mcp

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About this repo

• Who it is forIndependent filmmakers and AI video creators who use a coding agent and need recurring characters and locations to stay consistent across many generated shots.
• Why it is hot156 stars, launched 71 days ago
• Sourcegithub.com/machina-exm/film-studio-skills · Back to Hot repos

Requirements

• An agent harness that loads skills: Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, or OpenCode
• Access to the image model and video model you plan to use, named during /setup
• A script, treatment, or one-paragraph idea for the film
• Reference images for characters and locations, if you have them

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