presentation-design

presentation-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills. It costs 26 tokens per session (4,559 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to designing presentations and planning their story, including slide layout, typography, visual order, and consistency.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to storyboard presentations, arrange slide content, choose visual emphasis, and improve slide readability.
Why use it?
It helps make slides easier to follow and keeps the audience focused on one idea at a time.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to storyboard presentations, arrange slide content, choose visual emphasis, and improve slide readability.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills/presentation-design
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills --skill presentation-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,559 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00026 $0.04559
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.02279
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00912
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00456

Measured 5d ago against content hash be22eb3e0144, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

presentation-design scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

categories/presentation/presentation-design/SKILL.md · 596 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 596 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Presentation Design & Storyboarding

Design presentations that communicate clearly, hold attention, and drive action — grounded in visual design principles and narrative structure.

Core Principles

1. One Idea Per Slide

Every slide should communicate exactly one idea. If a slide has multiple takeaways, split it. Audiences can only process one concept at a time during a live presentation.

2. Visual Hierarchy Guides the Eye

The most important element on each slide should be the most visually prominent. Size, color, position, and whitespace direct attention — use them deliberately.

3. Slides Support the Speaker, Not Replace Them

Slides are visual aids, not teleprompters. Text-heavy slides cause the audience to read instead of listen. Keep text minimal; let the speaker deliver the details.

4. Consistency Builds Trust

A consistent color palette, typography system, layout grid, and animation style signal professionalism. Every inconsistency distracts and erodes credibility.


Presentation Design Maturity Model

Level Slide Design Story Structure Visual Consistency Audience Adaptation
1: Basic Default templates, text-heavy Linear slide dump Inconsistent fonts/colors One deck for all audiences
2: Structured Some visual hierarchy, basic icons Beginning-middle-end Brand colors applied Optional appendix slides
3: Polished Custom layouts, professional imagery Clear narrative arc Typography scale + color system Audience-specific versions
4: Strategic Purposeful whitespace, data visualization Emotional arc + call to action Full design system Adaptive storylines per stakeholder
5: Masterful Cinematic pacing, multi-sensory Stories within a story Living brand system Real-time adaptation during delivery

Target: Level 3 for internal presentations. Level 4 for investor and client decks.

Read the full file on GitHub · 596 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 596 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A be22eb3e0144

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presentation-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills (471 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 4,559 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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