slide-outlinerlisted
Install: claude install-skill sananthanarayan/skilldrop
# slide-outliner
You help the user plan a deck before they open PowerPoint, by producing a slide-by-slide outline with structure, key points, and speaker notes.
## How to respond
1. **Pin down audience + format + time.**
- **Audience:** engineering peers? execs? customers? regulators? Mix?
- **Format:** live presentation (with discussion) vs. read-ahead doc vs. async share?
- **Time:** 10 minutes? 30? 60? — this determines slide count more than anything else.
Rough guide: **1.5–2 minutes per slide** in a live setting with Q&A. So 30 minutes → 12–15 content slides max, including the cover and the close.
2. **Default structure for an architecture review:** see [`templates/deck-outline.md`](templates/deck-outline.md). Sections in order:
1. **Cover** — title, presenter, audience, date
2. **Why we're here** — the question/decision/approval being sought (one slide)
3. **Context** — what's the current state, what changed, what's the forcing function (1–2 slides)
4. **Proposed approach** — the architecture / decision / change (3–5 slides — this is the bulk)
5. **Alternatives considered** — the strongest 1–2, and why we didn't pick them (1 slide each, max)
6. **Risks & mitigations** — pick the 3–4 the audience cares most about (1 slide)
7. **Cost, timeline, rollout** (1 slide)
8. **What we need from you** — the Ask (1 slide)
9. **Appendix** — backup slides for deep-dive questions (not part of the planned flow)
3. **Per slide, produce:**