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Generate slide deck presentations from briefs — use when you need slides, pitch decks, or visual summaries

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Quality

71%

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

73%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

A well-structured, actionable pipeline with strong workflow clarity and an explicit approval gate, weakened mainly by padded best-practice/audience advice that assumes too little of Claude's existing knowledge.

Suggestions

Trim the 'Slide Structure Best Practices' and 'By Audience Type' sections to the non-obvious essentials, or move them to a referenced reference file.

Add a short validation/verification step in Step 4 (e.g. confirm the PPTX opened and slide count matches the approved outline) to close the loop after rendering.

Consider extracting the audience-specific framing into a one-level-deep reference so SKILL.md stays a lean overview.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The pipeline and outline example are efficient, but the 'Slide Structure Best Practices' and 'By Audience Type' sections restate general presentation advice (e.g. 'One idea per slide', '5-7 bullets max') that Claude already knows and could be trimmed.

3 / 5

Actionability

Concrete pipeline steps, specific tool calls (AskUserQuestion, Task, document-skills:pptx), an executable markdown outline template, and example filenames give mostly ready-to-run guidance, though PPTX rendering detail is delegated to another skill.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

A clearly sequenced 4-step pipeline with an explicit 'wireframe gate' approval checkpoint in Step 3 and named recovery branches ('Add more slides', 'Change focus', 'Start over'), plus clarification questions in Step 1.

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Well-organized into clearly headed sections with no nested references, but the ~170-line body inlines audience-specific and best-practice guidance that could live in a one-level-deep reference file; no bundle files are present.

4 / 5

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20

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Description

70%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A concise, third-person description that answers both what and when with reasonable natural triggers, but it undersells the pipeline (research, outline approval, PPTX export) and uses a slightly generic 'when' clause.

Suggestions

Expand the 'what' to mention the optional research, outline approval, and PPTX export steps so the description reflects the full pipeline.

Add concrete trigger phrases ('create a deck', 'build slides', 'investor pitch deck', 'board presentation') to the 'when' clause for stronger trigger term coverage.

Replace or qualify 'visual summaries' with deck-specific language to reduce overlap with general summarization skills.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Names the domain ('slide deck presentations from briefs') with one concrete action ('Generate'), but lists no secondary actions like research, outlining, or PPTX export that the body actually supports.

3 / 5

Completeness

Has a clear 'what' ('Generate slide deck presentations from briefs') and a 'when' clause ('use when you need slides, pitch decks, or visual summaries'), but the trigger is somewhat generic rather than listing concrete request phrases.

4 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Includes natural phrases users say ('slides', 'pitch decks', 'visual summaries') but misses common synonyms like 'deck', 'PowerPoint', 'PPTX', and 'board/investor presentation'.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The slide-deck niche is mostly distinct, though 'visual summaries' introduces minor overlap with general summarization skills and the description does not surface the documented conflict with /octo:docs.

4 / 5

Total

15

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20

Passed

Validation

93%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

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Total

15

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16

Passed

Repository
nyldn/claude-octopus
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