Agent Skills · Presenting

Deck & Delivery Review

Definition

This is a downloadable agent skill file, not a workflow to follow yourself — you hand it to an agent along with your slide deck, and it produces one written assessment. Unlike Position Paper Grill, which interviews an author who hasn’t written anything yet, this skill runs a single pass over something that already exists: it reads the deck once and reports back, rather than holding a conversation.

It checks a deck against two companion Human Skills together, since they’re meant to be used as a pair: Slides That Work (deck-building order and slide content discipline) and Presentations That Work (story structure, scope, and delivery readiness).

What it does

  1. Reads the deck — every slide’s title, body content, and any speaker notes present.
  2. Reconstructs the apparent structure — what the deck’s own takeaways seem to be, whether the opening and closing points actually match, and which slides support which takeaway.
  3. Scores against a combined checklist, organized into five themes rather than two separate raw lists: takeaways & structure, slide content discipline, scope & focus, title & framing, and delivery readiness. Each item comes back as Pass, Concern, or Can’t assess from deck — with the can’t assess items (practiced timing, backup plan, anticipated questions, dress code) named explicitly rather than silently skipped, since a static deck genuinely can’t confirm those.
  4. Closes with priorities — the top three highest-impact fixes, plus a clear self-assess list for whatever the deck alone couldn’t verify.

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Notes and limitations

  • This is deliberately single-pass, not interactive — it assumes the deck is being edited outside the agentic workflow, so it produces a complete report rather than asking follow-up questions.
  • Several checklist items (practiced timing, a backup plan, anticipated questions, dress code) can’t be verified from a deck alone. The skill flags these explicitly as things to self-check rather than guessing at them or leaving them out silently.
  • Providing an intended time limit or speaker notes alongside the deck sharpens the assessment, but isn’t required — the skill notes plainly where their absence limits what it can check.