@azerogluemin/ai-bootstrap 0.2.1

package/templates/skills/screenwriter/knowledge/categories/series/personas/gilligan.md

@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+# Vince Gilligan — Persona
+
+> Creator of Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul. Slow build character transformation. Visual symbolism. Methodical pacing.
+
+## Style Signatures
+
+- Slow character transformation (Walter → Heisenberg)
+- Visual symbolism (color coding, recurring motifs)
+- Procedural elements (chemistry, law)
+- Methodical pacing
+- Cold open often atmospheric
+- Long visual sequences
+- Distinctive cinematography (color, framing)
+- Antiheroes done right
+
+## Common Devices
+
+- Color symbolism (Walt's outfit changes by character development)
+- Time-lapse cooking sequences
+- Chemistry as visual metaphor
+- New Mexico desert as character
+- Single-character POV episodes
+- Cold opens with mystery
+- Setup + payoff over multiple seasons
+- Title cards / chapter feel
+
+## Dialogue Style
+
+Specific. Functional but charged. Characters express themselves through small details. Saul Goodman: hyper-articulate hustler. Walter: precise scientist becoming dangerous.
+
+```
+WALTER WHITE
+I am the one who knocks.
+
+SAUL GOODMAN
+Better call Saul.
+
+JESSE
+Yeah, science!
+
+GUS FRING
+A man provides for his family.
+```
+
+Quotable. Distinctive per character.
+
+## When Writing as Gilligan
+
+- Slow character arc (multi-season)
+- Visual symbolism (color, recurring objects)
+- Procedural detail (research the world)
+- Methodical pacing
+- Distinctive cold opens
+- Setup + payoff over time
+- Antihero protagonist
+- Cinematography matters (specific framings)
+- Theme of moral decline
+
+## Sample Approach
+
+```
+TITLE: "Karavan" (Gilligan-style version)
+
+Series concept: Single protagonist's slow moral decline.
+
+ELDAR (40), corporate lawyer in London, returns to Baku for father's
+funeral. Decides to stay one month to handle business. Ends up
+staying forever.
+
+His arc across multiple seasons:
+- Season 1: Eldar discovers father's business has connections to
+crime. Tries to clean it up. Believes he can.
+- Season 2: He compromises slightly, for "good reasons." Wears
+softer clothes. Less of a London corporate man.
+- Season 3: He's making business decisions he wouldn't have. He's
+respected in Baku. He's becoming someone else.
+- Season 4: He's the boss of the operation. His brother and sister
+don't recognize him. He still tells himself he's the good one.
+- Season 5: Final transformation. Full moral compromise. The
+businessman who came home. Who never went back.
+
+Visual symbolism:
+- Eldar's clothes shift gradually from London corporate (charcoal
+suits) → Azerbaijani business (cream, with pocket squares) → almost
+mafia (black, with gold details)
+- Coffee changes from Pour-over (precise) to Turkish coffee (the
+local style) — by season 5 he serves himself Turkish coffee like
+his father did
+- Camera framing: starts with London-style clean compositions,
+gradually shifts to dutch angles, closer crops, more shadow
+
+Cold open Season 5 Episode 1: Eldar at his father's grave. Wearing
+all black. Drinks Turkish coffee from the same cup his father used.
+Speaks: "Atam, sən düşündüyündən daha haqlı idin." (Father, you were
+more right than you knew.) Pours the rest of the coffee on the grave.
+
+Slow burn. Patient. Visual.
+```
+
+## Avoid
+
+- Quick character changes
+- Generic visuals
+- Improvised feel
+- Sentimentality
+- Clean morality
+- Quick resolution
+
+## Best for
+
+- Multi-season antihero arc
+- Premium cable / HBO
+- Visual showcase
+- Long-form patient drama
+- Auteur cinematography
+- Awards consideration
+
+## Avoid pairing with
+
+- Comedy
+- Quick procedural
+- Episodic standalone
+- Family-friendly
+- TikTok / quick format

package/templates/skills/screenwriter/knowledge/categories/series/personas/larry-david.md

@@ -0,0 +1,140 @@
+# Larry David — Persona
+
+> Seinfeld co-creator, Curb Your Enthusiasm. Observational comedy. Misanthropic protagonist. Social etiquette violations.
+
+## Style Signatures
+
+- Observational comedy (everyday absurdities)
+- Misanthropic protagonist (Larry plays Larry)
+- Social etiquette violations
+- Improvised feel (often actually improvised)
+- Cringe humor
+- Multi-thread stories that converge
+- "Show about nothing" sensibility
+
+## Common Devices
+
+- Larry breaking small social rules
+- Misunderstandings escalating
+- Multiple plot threads converging at end
+- Repeating characters (the "Larry-verse")
+- Self-aware observational humor
+- Awkward silences
+- Direct conflict (Larry doesn't shy)
+- Curb's signature theme music
+
+## Dialogue Style
+
+Conversational, often improvised (actors given outlines, not scripts in Curb). Sharp observations. Pet peeves articulated.
+
+```
+LARRY (Curb)
+That's pretty pretty pretty good.
+
+JERRY (Seinfeld)
+What's the deal with airline food?
+
+GEORGE
+I'm an architect.
+
+LARRY (Curb)
+You're a "stop and chat" person? I hate "stop and chat."
+```
+
+## When Writing as Larry David
+
+- Observational premise (small social annoyance)
+- Misanthropic protagonist
+- Multiple plot threads (3-5)
+- Threads converge at end (often disastrously)
+- Improvised feel
+- Social rules examined
+- Cringe escalation
+- Petty conflicts feel cosmic
+
+## Sample Approach
+
+```
+TITLE: "Karavan" (Larry David-style sitcom)
+
+Premise: ELDAR (Larry equivalent), late-50s, recently retired,
+inherits his estranged father's coffee shop in Baku. He doesn't
+want to run it, but he can't sell it for tax reasons. Now he must
+manage it for one year.
+
+EVERY EPISODE: Eldar gets into petty conflicts with customers,
+employees, and family.
+
+Sample episode plot:
+
+A-STORY: Eldar refuses to give a regular customer a "loyalty" stamp
+on her coffee card because she didn't FINISH her coffee. She argues
+she paid for it; the stamp is hers. He argues the stamp is for
+finishing the coffee, that's the spirit of the program. They argue
+escalates to her demanding to see his stamp policy in writing.
+
+B-STORY: Eldar's brother RAMIN visits from Russia. They haven't
+seen each other in fifteen years. Ramin keeps "stop and chat"-ing
+with everyone. Eldar hates this.
+
+C-STORY: A new customer, NIGAR, asks if she can charge her phone
+at one of the cafe's outlets. Eldar says "of course." Then she
+brings in a power strip and charges three devices. Then asks for
+WiFi password. Then asks if she can take a phone call. The escalation
+is endless.
+
+D-STORY: A construction worker keeps coming in for free water,
+not buying coffee. Eldar wants to ban him. His employees say he
+can't legally do that. Eldar tries anyway.
+
+CONVERGENCE: All four storylines collide in the last 5 minutes:
+
+The loyalty card customer comes back with her LAWYER. The lawyer
+is the construction worker (he was studying for the bar). Ramin
+"stops and chats" with the lawyer for ten minutes blocking all
+the other arguments. Nigar tries to record the conflict on her
+fully-charged phone. Eldar explodes:
+
+"Get out! All of you! GET OUT!"
+
+He throws them all out. Closes the shop. Sits alone with his coffee.
+
+A new customer enters. Looks around. Sees Eldar.
+
+NEW CUSTOMER
+You open?
+
+ELDAR
+... yes.
+
+He stands. Goes back to work.
+
+(Cue Curb-style theme music with mandolin.)
+```
+
+## Avoid
+
+- Sincere emotion
+- Mainstream-friendly humor
+- Resolution that's clean
+- Likable protagonist (Larry isn't)
+- Cynicism without humor
+- Heavy plotting
+
+## Best for
+
+- Cable / streaming sitcom
+- Observational comedy
+- Adult audience
+- Improvised production
+- Auteur-driven (Larry plays Larry)
+- Limited season runs
+
+## Avoid pairing with
+
+- Drama-drama
+- Family-friendly content
+- Action / thriller
+- Romantic comedy
+- Pure procedural
+- Heart-warming endings

package/templates/skills/screenwriter/knowledge/categories/series/personas/lindelof.md

@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
+# Damon Lindelof — Persona
+
+> Lost, The Leftovers, Watchmen. Mystery box. Philosophical themes. Faith vs science. Time non-linear.
+
+## Style Signatures
+
+- Mystery box (questions sustained over seasons)
+- Philosophical themes (religion, identity, meaning)
+- Faith vs science tension
+- Time non-linear
+- Multiple characters' interlocking arcs
+- Bold genre choices
+- Emotional gut-punches
+- Ambiguous endings
+
+## Common Devices
+
+- Big mystery sustained
+- Multiple flashbacks
+- Time jumps (forward and backward)
+- Religious imagery / themes
+- Each character's POV episode
+- Ensemble cast
+- Genre-bending (sci-fi / drama / horror mix)
+- Soundtrack drives emotion
+- Major character deaths
+
+## Dialogue Style
+
+Philosophical, sometimes oblique. Characters debate big questions. Emotional honesty in conflict moments.
+
+```
+KEVIN GARVEY (Leftovers)
+We're all gone.
+
+JOHN LOCKE (Lost)
+We have to go back.
+
+ANGELA (Watchmen)
+You can't heal under a mask.
+
+JACK (Lost)
+We have to go back, Kate!
+```
+
+## When Writing as Lindelof
+
+- Big mystery (planted in pilot, sustained)
+- Multiple character POVs (each gets focus episodes)
+- Time non-linear (flashbacks, future, present)
+- Philosophical/spiritual themes
+- Genre-bending (drama + sci-fi or supernatural)
+- Soundtrack carries emotion
+- Bold creative choices
+- Ambiguous endings (don't explain everything)
+
+## Sample Approach
+
+```
+TITLE: "Karavan" (Lindelof-style)
+
+Premise: When ARIF ALIYEV dies, his three estranged children inherit
+the family coffee company. But also: they begin experiencing visions
+of him. Are they spiritual? Mental health crises? Something else?
+The mystery sustains across seasons.
+
+DEVICE: Each character believes the visions are real for them
+specifically. Each interprets differently.
+
+Sample episode structure (60 min):
+
+CHARACTER POV EPISODE: NIGAR'S story.
+
+COLD OPEN (5 min):
+- Flash forward: Nigar at her father's grave, alone, three years
+in the future
+- Voiceover (her, older): "I wasn't supposed to see him after he
+died. None of us were."
+
+ACT 1 (5-15 min):
+- Present day: Nigar alone in her father's office
+- She turns. He is sitting at his desk
+- She doesn't react with fear. With acceptance.
+- They have a conversation
+- He asks her how the company is going
+- She says it's hard
+- He says: "It was always hard."
+
+ACT 2 (15-40 min):
+- Flashback: Nigar age 12, with her father at the warehouse
+- He teaches her about coffee
+- Their relationship as a child
+- She loved him
+- Cut to her early 20s: their fight that estranged them for ten years
+- Cut to present: she has not processed his death
+
+ACT 3 (40-55 min):
+- She tells her brothers about seeing him
+- Her brother Ramin: "Nigar, that's not possible."
+- She: "I know."
+- Ramin (quietly): "I see him too."
+- They look at each other
+- They do not tell their brother Eldar yet
+- They are scared
+
+TAG (55-60 min):
+- Nigar in her father's office at night
+- He is there again
+- ARIF (her father)
+- Don't be scared. The thing about death is...
+- (cuts before he finishes)
+- Black screen
+- Sound: a coffee cup being placed on a desk
+
+(Music: Max Richter "On the Nature of Daylight" or similar emotional
+piece.)
+```
+
+## Avoid
+
+- Easy explanations (Lindelof leaves mystery)
+- Simple morality
+- Clean conclusions
+- Generic protagonist
+- Single POV
+- Procedural format
+- Quick episodic resolution
+
+## Best for
+
+- Streaming prestige (HBO, Netflix premium)
+- Multi-season ambition
+- Mystery / sci-fi / supernatural
+- Auteur showcase
+- Adult patient audience
+- Awards consideration
+- Limited series too
+
+## Avoid pairing with
+
+- Network broadcast
+- Procedural
+- Family content
+- Comedy
+- TikTok format
+- Quick resolution required

package/templates/skills/screenwriter/knowledge/categories/series/personas/mike-white.md

@@ -0,0 +1,172 @@
+# Mike White — Persona
+
+> The White Lotus. Class satire. Wealth observation. Slow-build tension. Multiple character POVs.
+
+## Style Signatures
+
+- Class satire
+- Wealth/privilege examined
+- Slow-build tension
+- Multiple character POVs interweaving
+- Resort/hotel/destination settings (White Lotus)
+- Death as inciting + final reveal
+- Subversive comedy
+- Discomfort humor
+
+## Common Devices
+
+- Death framing device (we know someone dies, who?)
+- Multiple guest POVs at a luxury location
+- Workers vs wealthy dynamics
+- Awkward dinner scenes
+- Class blindness moments
+- Generational tension
+- Hidden character darkness reveals
+- Themed seasons (Hawaii, Sicily, Thailand)
+
+## Dialogue Style
+
+Naturalistic, often improvised feel. Wealthy characters self-justify. Workers reveal truth. Awkward silences.
+
+```
+TANYA (White Lotus)
+I'm sorry, but I think you should go.
+
+ARMOND
+The guests should be allowed their fantasies.
+
+PORTIA
+I think I'm dating a guy who wants to kill me.
+```
+
+## When Writing as Mike White
+
+- Class as central theme
+- Multiple character POVs at one location
+- Resort / hotel / wealthy destination
+- Slow-build tension
+- Death framing (often) or major reveal
+- Wealthy + workers contrast
+- Subtle satire (not heavy-handed)
+- Long takes acceptable
+- Discomfort humor
+
+## Sample Approach
+
+```
+TITLE: "Karavan" (Mike White-style limited series)
+
+Premise: An exclusive Karavan Coffee retreat in the mountains of
+Azerbaijan. Six wealthy guests, the Aliyev family hosts (siblings
+running the company), and the staff serving them.
+
+Over one week, hidden tensions surface.
+
+OPENING: One of the guests is being put into a body bag. We don't
+know who. Cut to one week earlier.
+
+CHARACTERS:
+
+GUESTS:
+- A WEALTHY RUSSIAN MARRIED COUPLE (oligarch and trophy wife) — their
+marriage falling apart
+- AN AMERICAN HEIRESS — using the trip as a "spiritual journey" while
+also flirting with the wrong people
+- HER YOUNGER GIRLFRIEND — questioning everything
+- A GERMAN FOOD CRITIC — there to judge but also lonely
+- A YOUNG TURKISH ENTREPRENEUR — trying to network with anyone wealthy
+
+HOSTS:
+- ELDAR (40), trying to make this retreat work for the business
+- NIGAR (38), tired of pretending to like rich people
+- RAMIN (32), having an affair with one of the staff
+
+STAFF:
+- MURAT (45), retreat manager, secretly hates everyone
+- LEYLA (28), waitress, having affair with Ramin
+- ASIF (60), chef, the only one with dignity
+- ZULEYHA (24), housekeeper, knows everything
+
+Sample scene — Day 3:
+
+EXT. RETREAT TERRACE - DUSK
+
+All guests at long table. Mountain view. Wine flowing.
+
+THE RUSSIAN OLIGARCH
+This view is incredible.
+
+THE AMERICAN HEIRESS
+It's so peaceful here. I needed this.
+
+THE GERMAN CRITIC
+The food is excellent.
+
+ELDAR (from the head of the table)
+Asif is one of the best chefs in Azerbaijan.
+
+THE RUSSIAN'S WIFE (slurred from wine)
+Why do all your staff look so unhappy?
+
+Long awkward silence.
+
+ELDAR
+... they aren't unhappy. They're focused.
+
+THE TURKISH ENTREPRENEUR
+The staff is excellent.
+
+THE HEIRESS'S GIRLFRIEND (quietly to her partner)
+Did you tip the housekeeper?
+
+THE HEIRESS
+We're paying $30,000 for the week. They get tips out of that.
+
+THE GIRLFRIEND
+Babe, we should tip her.
+
+THE HEIRESS (sharp)
+The package includes service.
+
+NIGAR (from the other end of the table, watching)
+They live in dormitories on the property. The "service" included
+in your package is their whole life.
+
+Awkward silence. The Russian wife laughs uncomfortably.
+
+THE RUSSIAN'S WIFE
+This is a lovely retreat.
+
+The camera pans slowly over each face. Tensions revealed but unspoken.
+
+CUT TO: ZULEYHA the housekeeper in the kitchen, listening through
+the window. Her face: blank. Then a small, small smile.
+```
+
+## Avoid
+
+- Heavy-handed satire
+- Quick pacing
+- Resolution
+- Sentimentality
+- Single POV
+- Black-and-white morality
+
+## Best for
+
+- Limited series (6-8 episodes per season)
+- HBO / streaming prestige
+- Class commentary
+- Multi-POV ensemble
+- Themed seasons (each new location/situation)
+- Awards consideration
+- Adult audience
+
+## Avoid pairing with
+
+- Action thriller
+- Family content
+- Comedy-comedy
+- Hopeful tone
+- TikTok format
+- Procedural