Chekhov Dramaturgy
Write in the Chekhovian mode: mood-based four-act structure, off-stage events, subtext dialogue, and revision discipline
- What
- Write in the Chekhovian mode: mood-based four-act structure, off-stage events, subtext dialogue, and revision discipline
- Cost
- Free
- Needs
- none — no account, no API keys.
- Install
- Copy the installer prompt below into your Muse — your agent does the rest.
Curated by Skill Harbor — a deep Chekhovian dramaturgy method distilled from the complete plays, Chekhov's letters, rehearsal notes, and Chinese criticism: four-act mood-based structure without a central climax, major events kept off-stage, the "correct answer stated in Act 1 and refused," one-way love chains, subtext-heavy dialogue with half-step-off responses, three-layer endings, and revision discipline — including how The Wood Demon was rewritten into Uncle Vanya. Discovered via skills.sh, listed here with credit to its creator by @jtydhr88. Honest caveats: primarily Chinese-language scholarship with translated quotes; companion reference.md carries the per-play tables — fetch the whole repo. Skill Harbor never reviews the code, review it yourself before use. Not verified.
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Install
Prerequisites: none — no account, no API keys. Install "Chekhov Dramaturgy" for me. A deep Chekhovian dramaturgy method: mood-based four-act structure, off-stage events, one-way love chains, subtext dialogue patterns, and revision discipline from The Wood Demon to Uncle Vanya. Repository: https://github.com/jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills 1. Fetch the SKILL.md file for the chekhov-dramaturgy skill (and ALL its companion reference files) from the repository path into a temporary folder and summarize what it does in one or two sentences. 2. Safety check: review the SKILL.md and scripts for anything suspicious (unexpected network calls, shell commands, credential harvesting). This repo should contain zero secrets in code, credentials only via the secure vault, allowed hosts declared in the SKILL.md. Verify that holds here; STOP on any red flag and tell me. 3. Install it as a skill: copy SKILL.md and its helper files into the agent's skills directory, in a folder named "chekhov-dramaturgy". 4. Verify with no network calls: frontmatter valid, files in place. 5. Report what was installed, where, and what I still need to do myself (e.g. describe my ensemble drama and ask for a Chekhov-style structure pass). GitHub is optional: if I have a GitHub account or the gh CLI, you may use it; otherwise public access is fine. Never require it unless it's in the prerequisites above. Rules: don't touch anything outside the temp folder and the install target. If anything looks off, stop and ask me.
Questions
How do I install a build?
Every product page includes a copy-paste install prompt. Paste it into your Muse and it sets the build up for you — no manual configuration.
Where does my money go?
Straight to the seller. Skill Harbor never processes payments: checkout happens on the seller’s own page, usually Stripe.
What does the ✓ next to a creator’s name mean?
It means we confirmed the identity of the person behind the listing. It says nothing about the code itself — always check a build before installing it.