🎤 presentation-prep — Claude Skill

A Claude skill that turns your raw slide code and rough speaking notes into a natural, speakable presentation script — slide by slide.

No padding. No AI tone. Strictly based on what you actually wrote.

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What it does

You give it:

• Your slide source code (Markdown, HTML, Rmd, Qmd, LaTeX/Beamer — any format)
• Your draft notes per slide (bullet points, rough sentences, keywords — anything)

It gives you back a spoken script for each slide, covering every bullet, plot, table, and term — with natural transitions in and out of each slide.

What makes it different from just asking Claude to "write a script":

• It never invents content outside your draft — if you didn't write it, it won't say it
• It asks first: academic conference or industry? If industry, it looks up the company's communication style and adapts
• When your draft is thin for a slide, it outputs the short version and offers concrete expansion options — you decide whether to elaborate
• It tells you how to pronounce and speak equations, acronyms, and technical terms out loud
• Audience assumed: mixed expert + lay, all university level — it glosses jargon on first use without talking down

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Output format

One block per slide:

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Slide [N]: [Title]

[transition/connection]: "..."

[term: XYZ]: "..."
[bullet: bullet text]: "..."
[plot: figure label]: "..."
[table: table label]: "..."

[transition to next slide]: "..."
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Everything in quotes is exactly what you say out loud.

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Example

Input — slide code:

## RMST vs Median Survival
- RMST: area under survival curve up to time τ
- More robust when proportional hazards violated
- [plot: km_curves.png]

Input — your draft notes:

- explain what RMST stands for and the tau thing
- PH assumption fails → RMST still works
- the plot shows two KM curves, shaded area is the RMST difference
- next slide is about trial design

Output:

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Slide 3: RMST vs Median Survival

[transition/connection]: "Now let's look at the estimand itself — what RMST actually is."

[term: RMST]: "RMST stands for Restricted Mean Survival Time. It's the area under the survival curve up to a fixed time horizon, which we call tau."

[bullet: More robust when proportional hazards violated]: "And the reason we care about it here is that when the proportional hazards assumption fails, RMST still works."

[plot: km_curves.png]: "This plot shows two KM curves. The shaded area between them — that's the RMST difference."

[transition to next slide]: "So with RMST as our estimand, let's see how we build a trial design around it."
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Notice: no content was added beyond the draft. No Cox model, no immunotherapy — because the draft didn't mention them.

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Thin draft? It asks, not assumes

When your notes are sparse for a slide, it outputs the short version and offers options:

⚠️ Slide 2 draft is thin. Short version above. Possible expansions:
   A) Walk through 1–2 key rows in the table — e.g. sample size, age range
   B) Add one sentence on what the table shows about balance between groups
   C) Keep short — move on
Expand any of these?

You pick what to expand. It only adds what you choose.

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Supported slide formats

Format	How slides are detected
Markdown	--- or ## headings
HTML / reveal.js	<section> tags
Rmd / Qmd	--- breaks + chunk delimiters
LaTeX / Beamer	\begin{frame} blocks

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Installation

1. Download presentation-prep.skill
2. In Claude, go to Settings → Custom Skills → Install from file
3. Select the .skill file

Once installed, trigger it by saying things like:

• "help me present these slides"
• "what should I say for this slide"
• "prepare a script for my talk"
• "presentation notes" / "speaking notes"
• "how do I explain this slide"
• pasting slide code + asking for speaking guidance

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Made with

Skill designed by @Lillyakasiken with Claude by Anthropic. Skill format by Anthropic.

Contributions and issues welcome.