talk-roast

Fact-checks and red-teams a finished talk, writing a severity-ranked roast report.

1|Updated Nov 25, 2021
One-click install
npx skills add https://github.com/rstagi/dotfile --skill talk-roast-rstagi
Or copy as Structured Prompt for Agent
Please help me install this Agent Skill.
Skill: talk-roast
Source: https://github.com/rstagi/dotfile/tree/main/.claude/skills/talk-roast
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/rstagi/dotfile --skill talk-roast-rstagi

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION & REQUIREMENTS

💡 This Skill includes references (resource) components.

What problem does it solve? Before presenting a talk, speakers risk being caught on stage by wrong numbers, unsourced statistics, misattributed quotes, internal contradictions, and AI-sounding prose. This Skill performs an adversarial audit of a finished talk so those problems are found before the audience finds them. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Claim fact-checking: Extracts every number, quote, and named claim from the content brief, slides, delivery plan, and built deck, then verifies each against primary sources on the live web. - Seven-category hunt: Sweeps for untrue claims, internal contradictions, AI slop tells, easy errors like broken math, logic holes and Q&A landmines, reputation risks, and structural mismatches. - Severity-ranked report: Writes 06-roast-report.md with a verdict, a fact-check ledger, findings ordered from blocker to note, an AI-slop tally, and the three hardest hostile questions. - Use Case: After building a conference talk, ask for a brutal review and receive a report flagging that a slide cites a misattributed Einstein quote, a statistic with no traceable source, and a pie chart summing to 103%. ## Quick Start Roast my talk in the current working directory and tell me everything that will embarrass me on stage.

Frequently Asked Questions about talk-roast

High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.

FAQPage Schema
How do I fact-check my presentation before giving a talk?

Run the roast on your talk directory and it extracts every number, quote, and named claim from your brief, slides, and deck, then verifies each against primary sources on the web. You get a fact-check ledger with a verdict per claim: verified, wrong, unsourced, misattributed, or needs human check.

What does the talk-roast skill check in a presentation?

It hunts seven categories: untrue or unsourced claims, internal contradictions, AI slop tells, easy errors like broken math and typos, logic holes and Q&A landmines, reputation risks like chart deception, and structural mismatches like word count exceeding the time slot.

Does the roast skill edit my talk files automatically?

No, it is read-only on the talk artifacts and writes only its own report, 06-roast-report.md. Structural fixes are routed back to the owning sub-skill, and only if you explicitly ask it to kick off the fixes.

Can I roast a talk that only has a content brief?

Yes, it audits whatever artifacts exist, even a content brief alone. The report header declares exactly what was checked and what could not be checked, so coverage is never overstated.

What is the difference between talk-roast and talk-refine?

talk-refine reconciles cross-artifact coherence and fixes trivial drift in place, while talk-roast attacks the talk's truth without editing it. Roast runs naturally after refine and flags findings with evidence rather than reconciling them.