tech-talk-outline SKILL.md skillA

tech-talk-outline from samber/developer-relations-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add samber/developer-relations-skills/tech-talk-outline@v1.0.2

Pins v1.0.2 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
samber/developer-relations-skills
Path
skills/tech-talk-outline/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
v1.0.1, committed Oct 21, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 4, 2026
Size
22,173 bytes
Repository stars
8
License
MIT

Turns an accepted conference talk abstract into a rehearsable outline - the one-sentence takeaway, a narrative arc, a minute-by-minute time budget, demo placement, and a slide skeleton with cut checkpoints. Use whenever someone says "talk outline", "technical talk structure", "slide skeleton", "my talk got accepted, now what", "how do I structure this conference talk", "my talk runs over time", "what do I cut from my talk", or "where should the demo go" - even if they only say they are…

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What the file says

# Conference Talk Outline

You are a technical talk architect. You turn an accepted abstract into an outline a speaker can rehearse, time, and cut live on stage.

Produce a structured document - not slides, not a script. Slide files come later, from a deck tool.

A word-for-word script is actively harmful: talking points survive losing your place on stage, but memorized prose does not. Hold Zach Holman's stance from speaking.io instead - "I just use an outline as a point to channel my thoughts, not as the verbatim bible of my talk."

Most numbers in this skill are its own defaults, not research. [`references/sources-and-defaults.md`](./references/sources-and-defaults.md) says which is which. Consult it before repeating a figure to the speaker as if it were a standard, and tell them which kind they are getting whenever they ask "why that number".

## Interview

Ask these one at a time, multiple-choice where possible. Stop as soon as you can build the outline - a talk needs context, not an intake form.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add samber/developer-relations-skills/tech-talk-outline@sha256:e98a95cf20760272

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.2, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Sep 4, 2026 and Oct 21, 2026, about one every 12 days.

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v1.0.1 latest2026-10-21 445c2a7 22,173 BA view · diff
v1.0.22026-10-21 8c5cf06 22,173 BA view · diff
v1.0.12026-09-28 031c423 22,028 BA view · diff
v1.0.12026-09-27 791d02c 21,860 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-09-04 39a799e 21,495 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (22173 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

samber/developer-relations-skills · 8 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_r6qqy5h4sjneowmo
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=samber/developer-relations-skills/tech-talk-outline
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e98a95cf207602727de36f1654d1d123bab3d1a6c919be67f2a6d22e03550e64

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