conference-talk-builder

conference-talk-builder is a skill for Claude Code from nicknisi/claude-plugins. It costs 58 tokens per session (2,388 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for turning ideas, notes, or transcripts into a structured technical conference talk. It produces a talk script with a slide-by-slide content plan, speaker notes, and timing guidance.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan talks from scratch, shape a brain dump, adapt a transcript, or revise an existing talk using narrative structures.
Why use it?
It helps organize technical material into a clear story before choosing presentation software or designing slides.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the content plugin — 3 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan talks from scratch, shape a brain dump, adapt a transcript, or revise an existing talk using narrative structures.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nicknisi/claude-plugins/conference-talk-builder
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add nicknisi/claude-plugins --skill conference-talk-builder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nicknisi/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install content, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills.

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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,388 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 $0.00058 $0.02388
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.01194
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00478
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00239

Measured 10d ago against content hash 8e775dd6dc81, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

conference-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 10d 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.

plugins/content/skills/conference-talk-builder/SKILL.md · 226 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 226 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Conference Talk Builder

Transform brain dumps, transcripts, or raw ideas into structured conference talk scripts using narrative frameworks and Nick Nisi's voice.

The output is a talk script — a narrative outline with slide-by-slide content plan, speaker notes, and timing guidance. It is deliberately tool-agnostic: feed the script into Slidev, Gamma, iA Presenter, Keynote, or whatever you use to build the actual slides.

Process

Stage 0: Entry Path

Determine how the user is starting:

From scratch — They have a topic but no material yet. Go to Stage 1.

From a brain dump — They have scattered notes, bullet points, ideas. Go to Stage 1 and use their material as the starting input.

From a transcript — They have a recording transcript, prior talk, or existing outline. Go to Stage 1-T.

From feedback — They have an existing talk script from a prior session and want to revise. Skip to Stage 4.

Stage 1: Information Gathering

Ask the user for (skip what they've already provided):

  • Talk title (working title is fine)
  • Topic — what's the talk about?
  • Target audience — conference attendees, meetup crowd, internal team, workshop participants?
  • Audience knowledge level — beginner, intermediate, expert, mixed?
  • Duration — lightning (5 min), standard (20-30 min), extended (45+ min)?
  • Main points they want to cover
  • The story — what problem are they solving, what journey did they take, what do they want the audience to walk away with?
  • Code density — is this code-heavy, concept-heavy, or balanced?
  • Constraints — specific technologies, company context, anything off-limits?
  • Brain dump — everything they know about the topic, unorganized is fine

Don't require all of this upfront. Ask for what's missing after the first pass.

Stage 1-T: Transcript Analysis

When working from existing material:

  1. Read the provided transcript or outline
  2. Extract: key themes, narrative arc (if any), main arguments, examples, audience assumptions
  3. Identify gaps — what's missing for a complete talk?
  4. Summarize what you found and ask the user to fill gaps
  5. Proceed to Stage 2 with the extracted material

Read the full file on GitHub · 226 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. 10d ago First seen · 226 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 8e775dd6dc81

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conference-talk-builder is a skill published in the GitHub repository nicknisi/claude-plugins (114 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 2,388 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 2026-08-30.

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