presentation-talk-track-builder

presentation-talk-track-builder is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from microsoft/cat-agent-skills. It costs 165 tokens per session (2,716 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A talk-track writer that turns PowerPoint slides, slide images, or pasted slide text into spoken presenter scripts.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for writing first-person scripts, adding delivery cues, handing off to another speaker, and checking whether a presentation fits its target duration.
Why use it?
Slides usually contain prompts rather than the exact words a presenter should say. This creates narration for each slide and can account for speaker notes and the available speaking time.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex ✓ vendor

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

Good fit It is for writing first-person scripts, adding delivery cues, handing off to another speaker, and checking whether a presentation fits its target duration.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/microsoft/cat-agent-skills/presentation-talk-track-builder
About the project

microsoft/cat-agent-skills is a static website that catalogs reusable instruction sets and related packages for AI agents. People use it to search, filter, rate, and download skills for Cowork, Copilot Studio, and Scout, along with Copilot plugins and Scout automations. The catalogue entries are the skills, instructions, plugins, and settings displayed by the site.

microsoft/cat-agent-skills · 64 stars · on GitHub

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 microsoft/cat-agent-skills --skill presentation-talk-track-builder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/cat-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/cat-agent-skills/presentation-talk-track-builder"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/cat-agent-skills/presentation-talk-track-builder.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 165 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,716 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 $0.00165 $0.02716
Opus 5 $0.00082 $0.01358
Sonnet 5 $0.00033 $0.00543
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00272

Measured 4d ago against content hash 9b389cb865e5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

presentation-talk-track-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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/pptx_talk_track.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

submissions/presentation-talk-track-builder/SKILL.md · 240 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 240 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Overview

This skill turns slides into a spoken talk track. For each requested slide it writes a first-person script the presenter can read aloud, grounded in the slide's content and — above all — its speaker notes. It calibrates the script length to a target time and speaking pace and returns a timing table so the presenter knows whether they will land on time.

Core rule: the speaker notes are the source of truth. When notes and slide text disagree, the script follows the notes and silently drops the contradicted slide text. This is what the author intended to say.

Works across Scout, Copilot Studio, and Cowork. The user can attach a .pptx, provide slide images, paste slide text, or provide an outline.

When to Use

  • "I'm presenting slides 8-11, write a script for each so I can present them."
  • "Turn my speaker notes into what I should actually say."
  • "Make a ~6-minute talk track for these four slides; I speak fast."
  • "Write presenter narration for this deck / these slide images."
  • "Give me a word-for-word script with pauses and a handoff to the next speaker."

When NOT to Use

  • Creating, designing, or editing the visible content of the slides themselves.
  • Summarizing a recorded meeting, call, or transcript.
  • Writing a standalone document, memo, or article.
  • A quick one-line answer that isn't a spoken script — answer inline.

Quick Start

User: "I'm presenting slides 8-11, write a script for each. If the notes
       contradict the slides, follow the notes. Target ~6 minutes, business
       audience."
1. Capture inputs — audience & goals, slide content, optional supporting
   context.
2. Extract BOTH slide text AND speaker notes for the requested slides.
3. Reconcile: where notes contradict slides, follow the notes.
4. Calibrate: target minutes × pace (words/min) = word budget; split by
   slide.
5. Write a first-person script per slide with delivery cues + a handoff line.
6. Return the scripts + a per-slide timing table (words → spoken minutes).
7. Offer to save as speaker notes back into a copy of the deck, or as a doc.

Read the full file on GitHub · 240 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 4d ago First seen · 240 lines · 165 tokens per session scan A 9b389cb865e5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

presentation-talk-track-builder is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/cat-agent-skills (64 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 165 tokens to every session and 2,716 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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