adaptation SKILL.md skillA

adaptation from danjdewhurst/story-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

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mdr add danjdewhurst/story-skills/adaptation@git:20261014.4b8019d

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Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
danjdewhurst/story-skills
Path
skills/adaptation/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
15
Latest version
git:20261014.4b8019d, committed Oct 14, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 24, 2026
Size
14,271 bytes
Repository stars
382
License
MIT

This skill should be used when the user asks to "make an audiobook", "narration script", "narrator", "ACX", "Findaway", "pronunciation guide", "how long is the audiobook", "adapt to a screenplay", "Fountain", "screenplay", "picture book", "spreads", "illustration notes", "art notes", "comic script", "comics script", "graphic novel", "panels", "interactive edition", "turn the book into Ink or Twine", "translate the book", "translation", "foreign edition", "glossary for translators", or wants to…

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What the file says

# Adaptation

## Overview

Turn a story project into another form: an audiobook narration script, a
screenplay in Fountain, a picture-book pagination plan, a comics script, an
interactive-fiction branch map, or an edition in another language. The
story project stays the source of truth. Adaptation files live in
`adaptations/` inside the project, except translations, which become their
own project folder with the same ids.

## Prerequisites

A story project with `story.md` in the root and chapters drafted far
enough to adapt. Read `story.md` (`title`, `form`, `language`, `status`),
the chapter and scene records, and the character, location, and glossary
files the adaptation touches. Adapting a draft that is still changing means
redoing the adaptation; say so if `status` is not `revising` or `complete`.

## When to Use

- Producing an audiobook: narration script, runtime estimate,
  pronunciation guide, narrator and production checklist
- Adapting the story to a screenplay, comics script, or interactive
  edition (a linear book turned into Ink or Twine)
- Planning or drafting a picture book (`form: picture-book`)
- Translating the book, or preparing a glossary and style sheet for a
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add danjdewhurst/story-skills/adaptation@sha256:11194f68fa540d0a

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Audit of the latest version

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  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (14271 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

danjdewhurst/story-skills · 382 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_qzashn46gdfh4j4t
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=danjdewhurst/story-skills/adaptation
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/11194f68fa540d0aec67200b969acca725bb8f69896251f099a3926602c868da

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