speaking

A workflow for managing professional speaking opportunities such as conference talks, keynotes, panels, workshops, and university events. It uses email, calendars, and a tracking sheet to review and record invitations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding speaking invitations in Gmail, checking calendar availability, reviewing conference details, and maintaining opportunity records and a tracking sheet.
Why use it?
It keeps incoming speaking requests, decisions, schedules, and opportunity notes in one process. Standing choices such as budget and event preferences guide how opportunities are handled.

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/steipete/agent-scripts/speaking
Any agent
npx skills add steipete/agent-scripts --skill speaking
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/steipete/agent-scripts

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,196 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 $0.00018 $0.01196
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00598
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00239
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00120

Measured 2d ago against content hash a50a1ddee0fe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

speaking 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/speaking/SKILL.md · 129 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 129 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Speaking

Use this for Peter's speaking-opportunity workflow.

Sources

  • Strategy (read first, always): /Users/steipete/Projects/manager/CONFERENCES.md — standing decisions (e.g. no TED, no paid talks), 2027 budget, anchor plan, triage tiers.
  • Repo: /Users/steipete/Projects/conferences
  • Sheet: Peter Steinberger Inbounds
  • Sheet URL: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dNt5EjgfgvPoAx5fa-igk681gniCkzL-IZ2FmjFl8fs/edit?gid=0#gid=0
  • Main tab: Invitations
  • Main brief: /Users/steipete/Projects/conferences/conference-opportunities.md
  • One note per opportunity: /Users/steipete/Projects/conferences/opportunities/NNN-slug.md

Use gog first for Google data when available:

gog gmail search 'speaker OR keynote OR panel OR fireside OR conference OR summit after:2026-01-01' --json --no-input
gog gmail read <thread-or-message-id> --json --no-input
gog calendar events primary --time-min 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z --time-max 2026-12-31T23:59:59Z --json --no-input
gog sheets get 1dNt5EjgfgvPoAx5fa-igk681gniCkzL-IZ2FmjFl8fs 'Invitations!A1:Q110' --json --no-input

Scope

Track:

  • conferences, summits, retreats, keynotes, panels, firesides, workshops, university talks, high-signal private rooms
  • calendar holds that look like speaking commitments
  • email invites where Peter expressed interest, declined, or needs to respond

Do not track in the conference list:

  • podcasts
  • press interviews
  • generic networking dinners without a speaking/event ask
  • vague intro calls with no event or audience

Talks and firesides are welcome. Do not delete them just because they are not classic conferences.

Evaluation

Score with these heuristics:

  • Audience leverage: developers, founders, AI researchers, senior enterprise buyers/advisors, policy/media only if strategic.
  • Role quality: keynote/main stage/fireside > panel > passive attendance.
  • Proof: verified email thread, named organizer, calendar invite, public event page, agenda, attendee size.
  • Fit: OpenClaw, agents, developer tools, AI-native software, open source, founder story, OpenAI-aligned narrative.
  • Logistics: date conflicts, visa, travel, time zone, prep burden, travel/hospitality coverage.
  • Risk: platform politics, employer comms approval, geopolitical/compliance concerns, weak organizer quality.

Read the full file on GitHub · 129 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 2d ago First seen · 129 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A a50a1ddee0fe

Subscribe to this mod's changes

speaking is a skill published in the GitHub repository steipete/agent-scripts (6,580 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 1,196 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.

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