preparing-orals

preparing-orals is a skill for Claude Code from danielkinneyspears/federal-proposal-skills. It costs 83 tokens per session (1,499 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A preparation package for a scored presentation, demonstration, or interview in a US federal procurement. It turns the proposal's case into spoken material, assigns presenters, and prepares the team for evaluator questions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build slides or presentation content, assign speaking roles, follow time and format rules, and rehearse questions and answers.
Why use it?
An oral presentation is part of the evaluation, not merely a meeting, and may replace or outweigh written material. Preparation helps the team address the scoring requirements consistently.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the federal-proposal-skills plugin — 22 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to build slides or presentation content, assign speaking roles, follow time and format rules, and rehearse questions and answers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/danielkinneyspears/federal-proposal-skills/preparing-orals
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 danielkinneyspears/federal-proposal-skills --skill preparing-orals
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danielkinneyspears/federal-proposal-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install federal-proposal-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills.

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Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,499 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.
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 $0.00083 $0.01499
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00749
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00300
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00150

Measured 12d ago against content hash 1eff0d9bed5c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

preparing-orals 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 12d 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.

skills/preparing-orals/SKILL.md · 134 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 134 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Preparing Orals

Prepare for an oral presentation the way it deserves to be prepared: as an evaluated event, not a meeting. When a solicitation requires orals, the presentation is scored — sometimes it carries more weight than any written volume, and sometimes it replaces a written volume entirely. A team that treats orals as a briefing and not as a proposal volume gives away points. This skill builds the presentation, assigns presenters, and rehearses the questions.

When to use this skill

Use this skill when the solicitation requires an oral presentation, demonstration, or interview as part of the evaluation — common on task orders under FAR 16.505 and increasingly on larger procurements. Prepare orals after the written proposal content and win strategy are set.

It does not write the written proposal — that is the drafting skills. It converts the proposal's case into a scored spoken presentation.

Inputs

Required:

  • The solicitation's oral presentation instructions — Section L or a separate orals instruction: format, time limit, slide rules, who may present, what is evaluated, the Q&A format, and any restriction on materials.
  • Section M — what the orals are scored against.

Preferred upstream artifacts:

  • 05-win-strategy.md: the themes and discriminators the presentation carries.
  • 12-sections/ and the volume artifacts — the technical and management substance.
  • 03-competitive-assessment.md: to anticipate where evaluators will probe.

Read ../../shared/glossary.md and ../../shared/pursuit-workspace.md if not already read this session.

Intake

Ask these as a numbered list. Most answers come from the orals instructions.

  1. The format. What kind of orals — a presentation, a technical demonstration, a key-personnel interview, a scenario exercise? What is the total time, and how is it split between presentation and Q&A?
  2. The rules. How many slides or what materials are allowed? Are slides submitted in advance and locked? Who may present (often key personnel only, sometimes no outside consultants)? May the team confer during Q&A? Is the session recorded?
  3. What is evaluated. Which Section M factors do the orals cover? Do the orals replace a written volume or supplement it?
  4. Presenters. Who is available to present, and what is each person's role and strength? Are presenters required to be proposed key personnel?
  5. The substance. Is the win strategy and the technical/management content settled, so the presentation can be built from it?

Read the full file on GitHub · 134 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 12d ago First seen · 134 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A 1eff0d9bed5c

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preparing-orals is a skill published in the GitHub repository danielkinneyspears/federal-proposal-skills (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 1,499 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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