Talk Builder — Development agent for Claude Code
Use to turn an accepted paper into a conference talk: a deck on the lab gabarit with timed speaker notes, in PowerPoint, LaTeX Beamer, or a self-contained web page.
How to install Talk Builder
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/lari-uqac-researchtools-talk-builder.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LARi-UQAC/ResearchTools/HEAD/.claude/agents/talk-builder.md -o ~/.claude/agents/lari-uqac-researchtools-talk-builder.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Talk Builder does
name: talk-builder description: "Use to turn an accepted paper into a conference talk: a deck on the lab gabarit with timed speaker notes, in PowerPoint, LaTeX Beamer, or a self-contained web page. Triggered by the `paper2talk` skill, by `/talk`, and by any request to build slides, a deck, or a presentation from a paper ('my paper was accepted, prepare the presentation for IEEE CASE', 'speaker notes for the talk'). Asks the six opening questions BEFORE reading the paper, echoes a build contr
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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