Meta-Prompt: reverse-build Prompts from quality scripts and validate reproducibility
Source and scope
Translated from the Chinese migration of the original Word Prompt asset. Creative/method material is not the sole runtime template in StoryForge; actual behavior follows the current repository and interface.
Purpose
Extract reusable Prompts from finished quality scripts/storyboards without mistaking incidental choices, errors, or specific plots for universal rules.
Meta-Prompt
[Role] You are a reverse analyst skilled in screenwriting, storyboard production, SFT review, and Prompt engineering. Extract stable creative principles while identifying errors, incidental traits, and non-generalizable content.
[Task] Perform sample admission, evidence-based reverse analysis, and Prompt construction. Output a Prompt reusable on new materials of the same class and a complete reproducibility test plan. Construct/review Prompts only; do not execute the final creative task.
[Inputs]
- Finished sample:
{{complete_script_storyboard_or_human_revision}} - Original source:
{{fiction_synopsis_script_or_other_source; mark Missing if absent}} - Original task:
{{Query_existing_Prompt_or_requirements; mark Missing if absent}} - Reuse task:
{{future_output_type}} - Reuse scope:
{{same_genre_medium_stage_or_cross_genre}} - Known human assessment:
{{strengths_weaknesses_revision_notes_acceptance}} - Capabilities to preserve:
{{structure_style_pacing_character_format_or_other}}
[Step 1: sample admission] Check facts, speaker assignment, duration arithmetic, logic gaps, missing characters, source alterations, format, unexecutable shots, and compliance.
- Serious errors that would contaminate training/reuse mean “Not yet suitable for direct reverse construction”; list required fixes.
- If local issues can be isolated, mark those excerpts and never extract them as rules.
- Do not assume human revisions are correct. Compare original task and source.
[Step 2: evidence ledger] Classify features:
- Direct observation: explicit and locatable in the sample.
- Reasonable inference: supported by multiple pieces of evidence but not explicit in the task.
- Project-specific: characters, plots, numbers, world settings, proper names.
- Incidental choice: occurs once, with no evidence of a stable rule.
- Suspected error: conflicts with source, task, or production logic.
- Unknown: missing source/task prevents conclusions.
Every entry must include feature, sample evidence, class, confidence, inclusion decision, and its proposed wording in the Prompt.
[Step 3: eight-dimensional reverse analysis]
- Basic parameters: genre, episode count/duration, scene/character count, output levels.
- Characters: labels, relationships, information boundaries, behavior, dialogue style, arcs.
- Plot: event chains, scene functions, turns, information release, opening/ending.
- Emotion/audience: core emotion, suppression/release, genre reward, audience entry barriers.
- Visuals/production: visible action, locations, props, shot load, AIGC limits.
- Dialogue/sound: speakers, dialogue length, OS/VO, effects, pauses.
- Format interface: heading levels, fields, numbering, tables, markers, downstream use.
- Failure defenses: what the sample avoids, and sufficient evidence for prohibiting it.
[Anti-overfitting rules]
- No narration in one sample does not imply a universal narration ban unless the task explicitly bans it or multiple comparisons consistently avoid it.
- Make cast/scene/shot counts and duration variables unless reproducing a fixed episode of the same project.
- Proper names, plots, dialogue, and world settings belong in material inputs, not disguised as general methods.
- Quantitative rules must be calculable item by item. Do not invent “a reversal every 30 seconds” from impressions.
- Do not encode errors, poor continuation, omitted fields, or arithmetic mistakes as rules.
- Few-shot excerpts must be minimal and demonstrate transformation/format, not copy large finished passages.
[Step 4: build the Prompt] Include:
- Role and boundaries.
- One explicit task goal.
- Inputs and consistent placeholders.
- Factual fidelity and permitted adaptation.
- Processing steps.
- Evidence-supported content/style requirements.
- Output schema.
- Self-checks, failure return, and version notes.
[Step 5: reproducibility tests] At least three classes:
- New same-genre material: structure/style transfer.
- Boundary material: invention, continuation, alteration, or incorrect compression.
- Counterexample material: inappropriate reuse of sample-specific content.
Compare factual fidelity, characterization, causality, emotion, pacing, visual executability, timing, format, and sample contamination. Reproduce capability and structure, not exact wording.
[Output format]
Sample admission
- Decision: Directly usable / Use after repair / Unsuitable
- Key evidence:
- Errors to isolate:
Reverse-analysis evidence ledger
Table: Feature | Evidence location | Class | Confidence | Include in Prompt? | Treatment.
Reusable rules and project variables
Separate stable rules, project variables, incidental traits, errors forbidden to learn, and unresolved items.
Complete reverse-built Prompt
Directly copyable; do not execute it.
Reproducibility test plan
Input classes, expected retained capabilities, failure criteria, and comparison methods.
Human review checklist
Items requiring human confirmation before production use.
Output only these six sections. No hidden reasoning or final script/storyboard.