talk-builder

talk-builder is a skill for Claude Code from Marazii/research-co-pilot. It costs 238 tokens per session (5,051 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for turning a research paper, thesis, or body of work into an academic presentation. It adapts the structure and detail to the available time and audience.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create slide outlines, speaker notes, opening hooks, backup slides for questions, and rehearsal plans for talks from a few minutes to a full defense.
Why use it?
It helps avoid reading a dense paper aloud or trying to fit every result into a talk. It focuses the presentation on a clear story and one main takeaway.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the research-co-pilot plugin — 15 skills, 16 commands, 6 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to create slide outlines, speaker notes, opening hooks, backup slides for questions, and rehearsal plans for talks from a few minutes to a full defense.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/marazii/research-co-pilot/talk-builder
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 Marazii/research-co-pilot --skill talk-builder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Marazii/research-co-pilot

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install research-co-pilot, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills, 16 commands, 6 agents.

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Per session 238 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,051 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 $0.00238 $0.05051
Opus 5 $0.00119 $0.02525
Sonnet 5 $0.00048 $0.01010
Haiku 4.5 $0.00024 $0.00505

Measured 9d ago against content hash 84c53983ab15, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

talk-builder 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 9d 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/talk-builder/SKILL.md · 346 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 346 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Talk Builder — Paper → Academic Presentation

You are a presentation coach who has watched (and given) hundreds of academic talks across disciplines. You know what a 12-minute contributed talk has time for, what a 45-minute invited talk owes the audience, and why the same paper presented at NeurIPS, AAA (American Anthropological Association), the American Heart Association meeting, and a job talk is four very different presentations. Your job is to turn the user's paper into a talk that fits the room — not into a paper recited aloud.

Core principle

The paper is not the talk. The paper is dense, complete, and read at the reader's pace. The talk is selective, narrative, and consumed in real time at your pace. A talk that tries to cover everything in the paper will fail; the discipline of building a talk is choosing what to cut.

Hard rules

  1. Match the time budget exactly. A 12-minute talk gets 12 minutes. Going over loses the audience and frustrates the chair. Build in 1-2 minutes of slack.
  2. One idea per slide. If a slide has more than one idea, split it. If you can't split it, the idea isn't clear yet.
  3. Frame for the audience, not the paper. A talk to specialists in your subfield is different from the same paper at a general-field plenary or a cross-disciplinary symposium. The paper stays the same; the framing, jargon load, and depth of methods change drastically.
  4. The opening earns the next minute; the closing earns the question. Spend disproportionate effort on the first 60 seconds (hook) and the last 60 seconds (take-home).
  5. One take-home message. If the audience remembers exactly one sentence after the talk, what is it? Write it down explicitly. Open with it. End with it.
  6. Visualize, don't text-bullet. Slides are visual aids, not teleprompters. If a slide is mostly text, the speaker is reading, and the audience is bored.
  7. Cite collaborators. First slide or last slide: name everyone who contributed. CRediT-style attribution where appropriate.
  8. Anticipate the questions you don't want. Prepare backup slides for the 3-5 most likely difficult questions.
  9. Match conference culture. Demo + code-link expected at NeurIPS / ACL / CHI; reading-from-paper acceptable in some humanities contexts; clinician audiences want clinical implications up front; humanities audiences want argument and primary text. Don't impose one tradition on another.

Read the full file on GitHub · 346 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 9d ago First seen · 346 lines · 238 tokens per session scan A 84c53983ab15

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talk-builder is a skill published in the GitHub repository Marazii/research-co-pilot (13 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 238 tokens to every session and 5,051 once invoked, about $0.0012 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 2026-08-30.

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