skill-deck

skill-deck is a skill for Claude Code from nyldn/claude-octopus. It costs 23 tokens per session (1,392 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for creating slide-deck presentations from a written brief, with optional research, outline review, and PowerPoint export.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create pitch decks, business presentations, technical slides, and visual summaries.
Why use it?
It turns an initial topic or idea into a structured presentation while collecting key choices such as audience, length, and tone.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the octo plugin — 69 skills, 106 commands, 10 agents, 18 hooks shipped together

About the project

Claude Octopus is an orchestration project that sends research, design, and coding tasks to Claude Code and other AI model providers so their results can be compared. Developers use it for multi-model work, disagreement detection, reviews, persistent context, and an optional workflow that moves from discovery through delivery. The catalogue entries are its commands, skills, agents, instructions, hooks, plugins, and settings.

nyldn/claude-octopus · 4,050 stars · on GitHub · reddit.com

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/nyldn/claude-octopus/skill-deck
Any agent
npx skills add nyldn/claude-octopus --skill skill-deck
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nyldn/claude-octopus

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install octo, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 69 skills, 106 commands, 10 agents, 18 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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.

agentmods badge for skill-deck

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nyldn/claude-octopus/skill-deck.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/nyldn/claude-octopus/skill-deck)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nyldn/claude-octopus/skill-deck"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nyldn/claude-octopus/skill-deck.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,392 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 5.1 $0.00023 $0.01392
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00696
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00278
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00139

Measured 6d ago against content hash cce948de047c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-deck 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 6d 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.

.claude/skills/skill-deck/SKILL.md · 192 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 192 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Slide Deck Generator

Generate professional slide decks from briefs with optional research, outline approval, and PPTX export.

Prerequisites

The document-skills plugin MUST be installed for PPTX rendering:

/plugin list | grep document-skills

If not installed, tell the user:

The document-skills plugin is required for PPTX generation.
Install it with: /plugin install document-skills@anthropic-agent-skills

Pipeline (4 Steps)

Step 1: Gather Brief

Parse the user's topic and description. Use AskUserQuestion to clarify:

Question 1 - Audience:

  • Executives / Board
  • Engineers / Technical
  • Investors / Fundraising
  • General / Mixed

Question 2 - Slide count target:

  • Short (5-10 slides)
  • Standard (10-20 slides)
  • Extended (20+ slides)

Question 3 - Tone:

  • Formal / Business
  • Technical / Detailed
  • Casual / Conversational

If the user already provided clear context (e.g., "10-slide investor pitch deck about our Series A"), skip questions where the answer is obvious.

Step 2: Research (Optional)

If the topic needs external research or context gathering:

  • Use the Task tool with Explore or general-purpose subagent to gather relevant information
  • For deeper multi-AI research, suggest: "For comprehensive multi-provider research, run /octo:discover [topic] first, then /octo:deck to build slides from the results"
  • If the user provides their own content, notes, or a research file, skip this step entirely

This step is OPTIONAL. Many decks are built from the user's own knowledge or existing documents.

Step 3: Generate Outline

Build a slide-by-slide outline in markdown format. Structure:

## Slide 1: [Title Slide]
- Presentation title
- Subtitle / Date / Author

## Slide 2: [Agenda / Overview]
- Key topics to cover

## Slide 3: [First Content Section]
- Bullet point 1
- Bullet point 2
- Bullet point 3

## Slide N: [Summary / Next Steps]
- Key takeaways
- Call to action

IMPORTANT: Present the outline to the user for approval using AskUserQuestion:

Read the full file on GitHub · 192 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. 6d ago First seen · 192 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A cce948de047c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skill-deck is a skill published in the GitHub repository nyldn/claude-octopus (4,050 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 1,392 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

architecture

This skill should be used when managing Architecture Decision Records or C4 diagrams.

jikig-ai/soleur · 17 tokens

rename-files-date-prefix

Renames all files in a SharePoint document library (including subfolders) to prefix them with their created date in yyMMdd format (e.g., 251203-Status Report.pdf). Offers a preview before committing changes. Use when the user asks to prefix filenames with dates or add date prefixes to files.

pnp/sharepoint-skills · 67 tokens

codex-review-doc

Review documents using Codex exec. Supports review loop with context preservation.

sd0xdev/sd0x-harness · 19 tokens

azure-artifacts

UTILITY SKILL — Artifact template structures, H2 compliance rules, and documentation styling for agent outputs (Steps 1-7). WHEN: "generate artifact", "check H2 structure", "artifact template", "step 7 as-built". USE FOR: generating any agent artifact, checking H2 structure compliance. DO NOT USE FOR: Azure resource…

jonathan-vella/apex-accelerator · 103 tokens

opencite

Use this skill for "search for papers", "find citations", "look up a DOI", "get BibTeX", "download PDF", "convert PDF to markdown", "find canonical papers", "convert identifiers", "batch download papers", "configure opencite", "literature review", "find related papers", "what papers cite this", "export references"…

neuromechanist/research-skills · 111 tokens

document-browser

Create or update a professional live-linked document browser dashboard for a SharePoint document library, using real metadata fields, a clean navy-and-yellow design system, visible refresh, reliable SharePoint Open/Download links, and a 3-card desktop layout. Use when the user says: "create a document browser" "make a…

pnp/sharepoint-skills · 110 tokens