Slide Deck Outline Builder skill for Claude and Codex

Slide Deck Outline Builder as an AI skill. It asks for Topic and goal, Audience, Talk length and 3 more, then does the rest. Free to install in Claude or Codex.

Install it once and Claude or Codex runs it for you. When your request matches, your AI loads the skill, asks for anything it is missing, and works through the template itself. Prefer to fill it in by hand? See the full prompt template.

Download the skill (.zip) · View SKILL.md

When it is used

Use when a presentation needs an outline with one message per slide, speaker notes, and the data each slide requires before anyone builds it. Do not use for designing slide visuals or writing a script for a video. Related topics: business, communication.

What it will ask you for

• Topic and goal (longer free text)
• Audience (free text, e.g. "Who they are and what they already know")
• Talk length (number from 5 to 90)
• Tone (choose one: Formal, Conversational, Persuasive, Teaching)
• Material available (longer free text)
• Include speaker notes (choose one: Yes, No)

How it works

1. State the single main message in one sentence and the action the audience should take.
2. Arrange the story from current situation through problem, evidence, and proposal to the ask, fitting about one slide per two minutes.
3. Write each slide title as a full-sentence message and name the one thing the slide proves.
4. Specify the visual and the data source for each slide and flag every slide still missing its data.
5. Write speaker notes if selected and list the gaps to fill before building.

What you get

A table of slide number, message title, visual, data needed, and optional speaker notes, followed by a list of gaps to fill.

What it watches out for

• Titling slides with topics like Market Overview, so the deck does not make an argument on its own.
• Packing three messages into one slide, which splits the audience's attention.
• Planning slides with no data source, so the deck stalls when it is time to build.

How to install

Claude.ai and the Claude desktop app

1. Download the skill .zip.
2. Open Settings, then Capabilities, and find Skills.
3. Choose Upload skill and select the .zip.
4. Ask Claude for help with the task. It loads the skill when your request matches.

Claude Code

1. Download the skill .zip.
2. Unzip it into ~/.claude/skills/ (or .claude/skills/ inside a project).
3. Start a new session. Claude Code loads the skill when your request matches.

Codex

1. Download the skill .zip.
2. Unzip it into ~/.agents/skills/ (or .agents/skills/ inside a project).
3. Codex picks it up on its own. Type $ and the skill name to use it, or just ask for the task.

Cursor

1. Download the Cursor rule (.mdc).
2. Save it in .cursor/rules/ inside your project.
3. Cursor's agent applies the rule when your request matches its description.

AGENTS.md (Codex, Cursor, and other coding agents)

1. Copy the AGENTS.md section.
2. Paste it into AGENTS.md at the root of your repository, creating the file if needed.
3. Coding agents that read AGENTS.md follow it when your request fits.