Dramaturg — AI skill for Claude Code

dramaturg: AI developmental editor for novels, screenplays and plays

**A Claude Code skill that critiques story structure, plot, character arcs, pacing, stakes and set-ups and payoffs in a manuscript or outline, with a quote for every finding, and never rewrites your prose.**

dramaturg works like a sharp, well-read first reader: a dramaturg in the theatre sense, or a developmental editor in publishing. It reads a plan, an outline, a chapter, a scene, an act, an episode or a whole manuscript, says what the work is actually doing, and shows where it fails its own design and why. It covers novels, short stories, plays, feature screenplays and TV series, in any language. It also runs a panel of AI beta readers and keeps a profile of your book, so it does not flag your deliberate choices as mistakes.

Contents

• Why dramaturg
• Who it is for
• Example requests
• Install
• Quick start
• What it checks
• Modes
• How a review runs
• Reports, severity and solutions
• The work profile
• Plans in Notion, Google Docs and other tools
• Long manuscripts
• AI beta reader panel
• Story structures and critical lenses
• Language
• FAQ
• Files
• Regression cases
• Limits
• По-русски
• License

Why dramaturg

• It never writes your book. No sample sentences, no rewritten paragraphs, no dialogue, names or titles. Fixes are described as operations: cut, move, reorder information, plant a motif, change who makes a choice. If you explicitly ask it to draft text, it first says that this leaves dramaturg mode.
• Evidence or silence. Every claim about the text carri