Slide Deck Builder

A planning guide for building a persuasive presentation whose slides form one argument. It sets a narrative from the current situation to the complication, solution, evidence, and requested decision.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan decision-focused slide decks, define what the audience should believe or do, and write one clear takeaway headline for each slide.
Why use it?
It prevents presentations from becoming disconnected collections of information or hiding the central problem and decision among too many slides.

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/skillmedev/document-studio/slide-deck-builder
Any agent
npx skills add SkillMedev/document-studio --skill slide-deck-builder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SkillMedev/document-studio

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,051 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 $0.00043 $0.01051
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00526
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00210
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00105

Measured yesterday against content hash b9d702a9f70d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Slide Deck 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 yesterday.

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/slide-deck-builder/SKILL.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Slide Deck Builder

A slide deck is an argument, not a filing cabinet. Every structural choice either advances or dilutes the central point. Build the narrative before touching any slide.

Build the spine first

Before writing a single slide, answer three questions in writing:

  1. What does the audience believe now?
  2. What should they believe or do after?
  3. What is the single most important thing standing between those two states?

That gap is the deck's job. Every slide serves the journey across it. A deck that does not answer all three is not ready to build.

Narrative arc

Default structure for a decision-driving deck:

  • Situation - shared context the audience already holds as true
  • Complication - what changed or what is broken; the tension
  • Resolution - the proposed path forward
  • Proof - evidence the resolution works
  • Ask - the specific decision or action requested

Never start with the ask. Never bury the complication in slide 9.

Size the deck to the meeting: budget roughly 2 minutes of talk time per slide, so a 30-minute decision meeting supports 10-15 slides - anything past that is appendix material.

One idea per slide

If a slide requires a sub-bullet to be understood, it has two ideas. Split it. The test: cover the body and read only the headline. If the point still lands, the slide is right. If the body is doing the work, the headline is wrong.

Do not use slides as documents. If content requires more than 40 words to be understood, it belongs in an appendix or a leave-behind - not on a live slide.

Headlines as takeaways

Every headline should be a complete, opinionated sentence - not a topic label - and short enough to read in one glance (about 12 words is the ceiling).

  • Wrong: 'Market Analysis'
  • Right: 'The market is growing 3x faster than our current capacity'

A reader who only reads headlines should get the whole argument. If the headlines form a logical chain, the deck is structurally sound.

Worked example: the headline chain

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 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. yesterday First seen · 94 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A b9d702a9f70d

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Slide Deck Builder is a skill published in the GitHub repository SkillMedev/document-studio (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,051 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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