Create stories. Adapt them. Ship them.
ZenStory AI open-source AI tools to write novels and adapt them into drama, games and video
Six MIT-licensed projects for writers and story creators. Write web fiction with AI skills inside Claude Code or Codex, turn a novel into short-drama scripts and storyboards, a playable game or a narrated video recap — or write in the browser at the ZenStory Workbench, no agent setup needed.
Explore the six projects Open the web workbench
npx skills add zenstory-ai/oh-story-claudecode -y -gThen run /story-setup in your writing-project folder. Works in Claude Code, Codex CLI, Google Antigravity and 6 more hosts.
Not sure which? Oh Story, Oh Story DSH or hosted ZenStory: choose a writing workflow
Choose by task
Six open-source projects. Pick the card that matches what you want to make.
Write web fiction
Oh Story
Turn a coding agent into a complete web-fiction writing workflow — chart scanning, deconstruction, drafting, de-AI editing, covers.
Agent skill pack6,770 GitHub stars13 skills
Produce a short drama or motion comic
Drama Skills
Develop ideas or source stories into episode scripts, visual specifications, storyboards and generation prompts, with optional production and review.
Production skill suite1,795 GitHub stars11 skills
Adapt a novel into a playable game
Novel to Game
A source-grounded workflow for adapting novels into playable game candidates on a chosen target runtime.
Adaptation skill pack775 GitHub stars7 skills
Turn footage into a narrated recap
Video Recap Skills
Turn supported video files into Chinese-narration recaps with scene understanding, scripting, voiceover, editing and subtitle assembly.
Video workflow505 GitHub stars6 skills
Use the story stack in DeepSeek Harness
Oh Story DSH
The whole story stack inside DeepSeek Harness, with a GUI workbench.
DSH plugin334 GitHub stars
Write in a hosted browser workspace
ZenStory Workbench
Chat to create — an agent-driven novel-writing workbench that keeps files, materials, characters, chapters and versions in one place.
Web workbench40 GitHub stars13 skills
Writing and adaptation guides
Each guide answers one working question with a worked example.
Start here
All 21 guides, by project
Oh Story 12
- Agent skills for writers: prompts, skill packs, plugins and MCP explained
- Continue an unfinished novel with AI: import 10–20 chapters into Oh Story
- Revise formulaic AI prose without changing your story
- Keep a long novel consistent: character knowledge, promises and unresolved clues
- From outline to chapter: turn plot specifications into visible change
- Keep your author voice when AI continues a novel
- Turn AI manuscript feedback into a revision plan without rewriting the wrong story
- From one premise to a complete short story: promise, pressure, choice and payoff
- Write distinct character dialogue through goals, knowledge and relationships
- Learn writing craft from fiction: evidence, scene mechanisms and a new-story exercise
- AI character profiles feel flat? Turn motives into story choices
- Writing a novel opening: pay off the first promise without ending the serial
How the pieces fit together
- Create Start with an idea, an existing manuscript or a chapter to revise. Oh Story supplies reusable fiction-writing workflows in a supported agent; the separate ZenStory workbench organizes writing in a hosted project workspace.
- Adapt Choose the next form of your story: Drama Skills for short-drama scripts and shot planning, Novel to Game for an interactive game candidate, or Video Recap Skills for narrated recaps from footage. Bring source material and the rights to use it.
- Orchestrate Already using DeepSeek Harness? Oh Story DSH brings the four skill packs into its workbenches. It is a community plugin for that host, not an extension installed into ordinary DeepSeek web chat.
10,219 GitHub stars across the organization as of 2026-09-11. All repositories listed here are MIT-licensed.
The writing workbench has moved to app.zenstory.ai; sign in there with your existing account.