Generate Beamer presentations for the sewage-house-prices project by dispatching the Storyteller agent (creator) and Discussant agent (critic).

Custom licenceAuto-check: notesDocuments & Office

Install Create Talk

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill create-talk -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills create-talk --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/41-sticerd-eee-sewage-econometrics-check/skills/create-talk .claude/skills/create-talk && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
create-talk
GitHub stars
4.5k
Token cost
~1.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
312 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
383
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Generate Beamer presentations for the sewage-house-prices project by dispatching the Storyteller agent (creator) and Discussant agent (critic).

  • Works in 5 steps: Parse Arguments → Launch Storyteller Agent → Launch Discussant Agent (Talk Critic) → …
  • Tasks that involve LaTeX
  • SKILL.md covers Workflow, Output and Principles
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Create Talk is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. Generate Beamer presentations for the sewage-house-prices project by dispatching the Storyteller agent (creator) and Discussant agent (critic). Supports 4 formats — job market, seminar, short, lightning. Derives all content from the paper.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Documents & Office, covering LaTeX, Building AI agents and Slides and decks. The repository describes itself as: 🔬 A curated collection of 23,000+ agent skills for empirical research across 8 social science disciplines. | 精选 23,000+ AI Agent 技能库,覆盖8大社会科学学科的实证研究。CoPaper.AI…

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve LaTeX
  • Tasks that involve Building AI agents
  • Tasks that involve Slides and decks

Example prompts

  • “/create-talk”

Requirements

  • Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Grep, Glob, Write, Edit, Task, Bash

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Parse Arguments
  2. Launch Storyteller Agent
  3. Launch Discussant Agent (Talk Critic)
  4. Fix Critical Issues
  5. Present Results

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9fa87d8. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

    • Read
    • Grep
    • Glob
    • Write
    • Edit
    • Task
    • Bash

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Create Talk loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 63 tokens; SKILL.md has 312 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~63
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.2k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check: notes

The automated check noted patterns worth knowing about, such as sudo or a known installer.

  • NotePre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: Bash)SKILL.md
    allowed-tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Write, Edit, Task, Bash

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 312 words (~1,181 tokens).

“Generate a Beamer presentation by dispatching the Storyteller (creator) and Discussant (critic).”

— opening of SKILL.md by brycewang-stanford, Custom licence
name
create-talk
allowed-tools
Read, Grep, Glob, Write, Edit, Task, Bash
disable-model-invocation
true
argument-hint
[format: job-market | seminar | short | lightning] [paper path (optional)]

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/41-sticerd-eee-sewage-econometrics-check/skills/create-talk of brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9fa87d8

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Questions about Create Talk

What does Create Talk do?

Generate Beamer presentations for the sewage-house-prices project by dispatching the Storyteller agent (creator) and Discussant agent (critic). Create Talk is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. Generate Beamer presentations for the sewage-house-prices project by dispatching the Storyteller agent (creator) and Discussant agent (critic).

When should I use Create Talk?

Create Talk fits situations like: tasks that involve LaTeX; tasks that involve Building AI agents; tasks that involve Slides and decks.

How do I install Create Talk in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill create-talk -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/41-sticerd-eee-sewage-econometrics-check/skills/create-talk in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .claude/skills/create-talk in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Create Talk in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill create-talk -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/41-sticerd-eee-sewage-econometrics-check/skills/create-talk in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .agents/skills/create-talk in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Create Talk in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill create-talk -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/create-talk, .gemini/skills/create-talk, .github/skills/create-talk and .opencode/skills/create-talk in your project.

What does Create Talk need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Create Talk is instructions for the agent only. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Write, Edit, Task, Bash.

Does Create Talk access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Create Talk safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found notes only (pre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: bash)), nothing it rates as a warning. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Create Talk use?

Create Talk has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Create Talk use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.7k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Create Talk?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Create Talk: Compiledeck (scunning1975/MixtapeTools, 473 stars), Scientific Slides (K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer, 2.4k stars), Beamer (Noi1r/beamer-skill, 364 stars) and Compile Latex (pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow, 1.7k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Create Talk?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, which has 4,542 GitHub stars. The repository holds 383 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 5, 2026.

Source: brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.