Use this when
- A protagonist who feels passive even though many events happen around them
- A rewrite where major turns need to grow from character choices
- Writers comparing agency patterns across important draft changes
See who drives the story
Character Agency Report
Turn a vague note about a passive protagonist into a visual map of choices, reactions, turning points and consequences.
ScriptForge / Character Agency
Choices create the shape
01Active beats
02Reactive beats
03Turning-point ownership
04Longest passive stretch
The direct answer
What does this ScriptForge feature do?
The Character Agency report maps where a character drives events and where events drive the character. It uses beat-level observations and visual scoring to show patterns across the script, then gives the writer places to investigate rather than treating passivity as a single number.
Choose another route when
- The issue is the character's voice, relationships or continuity rather than agency
- The entire plot and structure need a broader diagnosis first
- You only need a craft explanation of what agency means
Inside the result
What you can actually use
Active and reactive beats
The report separates moments where the character initiates meaningful action from moments where they mainly receive, observe or respond to events.
Agency across the story
A visual timeline makes long passive stretches, decisive turning points and changes between acts easier to see than a single overall comment.
Rewrite targets
The analysis highlights where a clearer choice, tactic, consequence or refusal could return story ownership to the character without making them invincible.
A useful workflow
From the current draft to the next decision
- 1
Choose the character whose agency matters
Start with the person whose choices should create the film's main chain of consequences. Agency is not the same as screen time or likeability.
- 2
Read the pattern, not one beat
Every protagonist reacts sometimes. The useful question is whether reaction becomes a new choice and whether the major turns belong to the character.
- 3
Trace choice into consequence
For each weak stretch, ask what the character attempts and what that attempt changes. A failed choice can carry more agency than an easy success.
- 4
Rewrite the longest passive run first
Strengthening one central decision can reshape several later scenes more effectively than adding activity everywhere.
Real report examples / Logan
Compare broader development feedback
The Logan collection includes Coverage, Full Evaluation and a Rewrite Action Plan. It shows broader development feedback, not a public Character Agency report.
Explore the report setCraft before software
What Is Character Agency?
Learn why choice matters more than competence and how reaction can become action before interpreting the report.
Read the guideWhat this cannot decide
Keep the result in its proper place
- Agency is not a moral score, a measure of heroism or a demand that every character control every event.
- A low or missing observation needs scene-level review and should not be treated as proof that the writing is wrong.
- The visual report supports a rewrite decision, but the writer still decides which constraints and reactions are essential to the film.
Choose the next useful report
ScriptForge feature
Full Screenplay Evaluation
Get detailed screenplay analysis across structure, character, pacing, stakes, theme, genre and the rewrite work needed for the next draft.
ScriptForge feature
Screenplay Rewrite Action Plan
Turn screenplay feedback into an ordered rewrite plan that prioritises the biggest causes, protects strengths and gives the next draft a clear sequence.
ScriptForge feature
First 10 Pages Screenplay Feedback
Pressure-test the first ten pages of a screenplay for hook, clarity, setup, character introductions, tone, pace and early promise.
Use the report on the draft in front of you
Clarity first. Then the next pass.
Start free, keep each report with the draft that produced it and choose deeper analysis only when the work needs it.