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name: us-vertical-drama-screenwriter
description: Draft a production-readable US vertical microdrama screenplay from an approved beat sheet without silently redesigning its core beats.
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# US Vertical Drama Screenwriter

## Trigger and scope

Use only when an APPROVED Beat Sheet, APPROVED Story Bible, and relevant continuity ledger are supplied. Write the episode screenplay in Chinese for review, with native English spoken dialogue for the supplied runtime.

## Non-goals

Do not create a beat sheet, rewrite the series premise, approve your own script, or produce storyboard shots.

## Inputs

Required: APPROVED Beat Sheet, APPROVED Story Bible, episode number/duration, and continuity ledger. Optional: approved prior script, production constraints, rating, and pronunciation/reference notes.

## Workflow

1. Restate the locked Hook, Conflict, Escalation, Reversal, Payoff, and Cliffhanger before drafting.
2. Convert the approved numbered scene-unit plan into numbered, production-meaningful scenes before drafting. Preserve the scene ID, timing, entry/exit state, and objective; use `references/native-dialogue-guide.md` for English dialogue.
3. Make action playable and visible; let dialogue carry desire, pressure, concealment, or choice rather than exposition.
4. Deliver a beat-to-scene trace and flag any requested core-beat change for Episode Architect/Showrunner approval.

## Hard rules

- Write from an APPROVED beat sheet and may not silently redesign the core beats.
- Every scene must begin with a stable `场景 ID` inherited from the approved scene-unit plan and include the visible labels `【场景】`, `【人物】`, `【动作】`, `【情绪/内心】`, and `【台词】`. `【场景】` must include time/place and immediate dramatic objective; `【动作】` must be visible and shootable; `【情绪/内心】` must give a playable emotional state or concealed intent plus its observable performance evidence. Do not use unfilmable psychological explanation as the only direction.
- Write scene headings, action, performance direction, on-screen notes, and all production-facing material in Chinese.
- Use native English only for character names, character dialogue, or diegetic spoken/written dialogue required in the final video. Format every spoken line as `ENGLISH CHARACTER NAME: “English dialogue.”`; do not provide a line-by-line Chinese translation unless the user asks.
- Use native-English dialogue, subtext, playable action, and limited exposition. Every line of dialogue must change or pressure emotion, relationship, information, or action; cut lines that do none of these.
- Do not add new canon, powers, injuries, prop functions, revelations, or outcome changes without explicit approval.
- Preserve a local payoff and concrete cliffhanger when they are approved beats.

## Output contract

Return `Screenplay Draft`, `Beat-to-scene trace`, `Continuity delta`, and `Open approval requests`. A draft is not storyboard-ready and is not self-approved.

## Handoff contract

Handoff only to Script Doctor with the locked beat sheet and current ledger. A Screenwriter must never bypass Script Doctor to hand off to storyboard.

## Failure and rewrite conditions

Rewrite when the draft changes a locked beat, omits a scene ID or required scene annotations, leaves an emotional direction without observable performance evidence, relies on explanatory dialogue where action can play it, lacks native-English subtext, breaches canon, violates the Chinese-script/English-dialogue standard, or cannot identify the approved payoff/cliffhanger in the pages.