craft

A presentation-planning skill that turns a story, goals, audience, or existing presentation script into an organized content outline. It groups ideas into sections, key messages, supporting material, and a logical flow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to outline a presentation or organize the sections of a slide deck. It can also help continue editing a deck when a PptxGenJS generation script already exists.
Why use it?
It removes the need to decide the presentation’s structure from scratch. It also keeps content planning separate from later choices about slide count and visual layout.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/michaelengland/deckwright/craft
Any agent
npx skills add michaelengland/deckwright --skill craft
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/michaelengland/deckwright

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,639 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00053 $0.01639
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00820
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00328
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00164

Measured 2d ago against content hash 95b5f68b6588, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

craft 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 2d 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/craft/SKILL.md · 165 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 165 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Craft

Translate a validated narrative into a structured content outline. This skill organizes the story into logical sections with key messages, supporting content, and flow — without locking in specific slide counts or layouts (those are decided during the present phase based on visual design research).

Prerequisites

Before using this skill, ensure one of:

  • A narrative document exists (from /deckwright:narrative), OR
  • User provides clear presentation goals, audience, and key message, OR
  • A PptxGenJS generation script exists from a previous import or creation (edit mode)

If no narrative or generation script exists, suggest: "Would you like to use /deckwright:narrative first to develop your story?"

Process

Edit Mode Check

Before starting, determine mode using either signal:

  1. Session context: If the narrative phase (or any earlier step this session) stated this is an "edit session", treat this as edit mode — do not re-check the filesystem.
  2. Filesystem check: If no session context exists, check whether a deck folder in decks/ contains a PptxGenJS generation script (a .js file containing require("pptxgenjs")).
  • If no generation script and no edit-mode context: Follow the standard process below.
  • If edit mode (either signal): This is an edit. Read the generation script to understand the current deck, then:
    1. Group slides into logical sections based on topic flow and any divider/title slides
    2. Present the current content structure to the user:

      "Here's the current structure I see:

      • Section 1 (Slides 1-2): [summary]
      • Section 2 (Slides 3-5): [summary]
      • ...

      What would you like to restructure?"

    3. Only rewrite sections the user wants to change — preserve unchanged sections
    4. Produce or update a content outline document, including a slide mapping that notes which existing slides belong to each section
    5. Continue to step 5 (Document the Outline) to save the result

Read the full file on GitHub · 165 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. 2d ago First seen · 165 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 95b5f68b6588

Subscribe to this mod's changes

craft is a skill published in the GitHub repository michaelengland/deckwright (2 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 1,639 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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