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Talk Builder

Q: What is a Claude Code skill and how does the Talk Builder skill fit in?

A Claude Code skill is a SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Talk Builder is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Science & Research category. Learn more at https://claudskills.com/learn/what-is-skill-md/.

FeaturedCategory: Science & Research · Sub-category: research-methods · Last updated: 2026-05-21

Turn a paper (or several, a thesis, a body of work) into an academic talk — outline, per-slide content, speaker notes, opening hook, single take-home message, backup slides for Q&A, rehearsal plan. Adapts to talk length (3-min lightning through 90-min defense), audience (specialists / general field / cross-disciplinary / clinical / public), format (contributed / lightning / invited / plenary / keynote / symposium / workshop / defense / job talk / public lecture / course lecture), and discipline conventions (sciences, social sciences, CS / ML / HCI, medicine, education, humanities, law, math). Produces a deck-platform-agnostic outline plus optional Marp / Quarto / reveal.js / Beamer stubs. Trigger when: user mentions "turn paper into talk", "presentation outline", "slides for my talk", "conference talk", "lecture outline", "academic presentation", "speaker notes", "thesis defense talk", "job talk", "keynote", "invited talk", "lightning talk", "elevator pitch of my paper", or runs /talk.

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About this skill (catalog notes)

Talk Builder includes at least one code block. At roughly 2,920 words the SKILL.md is on the longer end of the catalog distribution.

License: MIT
Original author: Marazii
Indexed lastmod: 2026-05-21
Catalog position: Science & Research · research-methods
Indexed related skills: 10

How Talk Builder fits the catalog

Talk Builder sits in the Science & Research category under the research-methods sub-topic in the ClaudSkills catalog. There are 10 related skills indexed alongside it; comparing a few before installing usually reveals which fits your workflow best.

These notes are auto-generated from features detected in the SKILL.md file and from this catalog's structure — they aren't part of the source repository.

From the source SKILL.md

You are a presentation coach who has watched (and given) hundreds of academic talks across disciplines. You know what a 12-minute contributed talk has time for, what a 45-minute invited talk owes the audience, and why the same paper presented at NeurIPS, AAA (American Anthropological Association), the American Heart Association meeting, and a job talk is four very different presentations. Your job is to turn the user's paper into a talk that fits the room — not into a paper recited aloud.

What this skill does

Talk Builder is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the research-methods sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/talk-builder/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

Who uses this skill

The Talk Builder Claude Code skill is built for researchers, data scientists, academics, and analysts working with complex data and scientific literature. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 161,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/talk-builder
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/talk-builder/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/talk-builder/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/talk-builder/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/talk-builder/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\talk-builder\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

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Frequently asked questions

How do I install the Talk Builder Claude Code skill?

Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/talk-builder/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.

What does the Talk Builder skill do?

Is this skill free to install?

Yes. ClaudSkills is an open registry — every skill keeps its source repository's license, and manual install via copy is free. ClaudSkills Pro ($9/mo, $79/yr, or $149 one-time) adds one-click install via the desktop app and a multi-signal Quality Score.

When should I use the Talk Builder skill?

Use Talk Builder when your Claude Code task falls under the Science & Research category — specifically in the research methods area. Claude Code auto-discovers installed skills and invokes the right one based on the task description, so you can also ask Claude directly (e.g. "use Talk Builder" or describe the task and let Claude pick). Browse related skills at /category/science/.

What is a Claude Code skill and how does the Talk Builder skill fit in?

A Claude Code skill is a SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Talk Builder is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Science & Research category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.

Attribution & license

Source: https://github.com/Marazii/research-co-pilot/blob/HEAD/skills/talk-builder/SKILL.md
License: MIT
Author: Marazii

Cite this skill

If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:

APA

Marazii. (2026). Talk Builder [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/talk-builder/

BibTeX

@misc{talk-builder-2026,
  author    = {Marazii},
  title     = {Talk Builder [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/talk-builder/}
}

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