deck-narrative-arc
Give a deck a spine the room can follow — the situation-complication-resolution arc, the tension that makes the recommendation feel necessary, the transitions that carry the thread between slides, and the arc-check that catches sag. Use when asked make this deck flow, my presentation feels like disconnected slides, structure the story of this pitch/readout, or the room got lost in the middle. Produces the arc mapping, the tension line, the transition script, and the sag diagnosis.
npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill deck-narrative-arc --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Deck Narrative Arc Skill A deck can pass every slide-level test — clean headlines, honest charts — and still lose the room, because rooms follow *stories*, not sequences. The oldest working arc: **situation** (the world as the audience knows it — brief, they live there) → **complication** (the tension: what changed, what threatens, what's newly possible — this is where attention gets recruited) → **resolution** (the recommendation, arriving as the *answer to the tension* rather than as an announcement). Decks that sag in the middle usually have no complication — nothing at stake — so the resolution lands as opinion instead of necessity. ## What This Skill Produces - **The arc mapping** — the deck's slides assigned to situation / complication / resolution, with the imbalances flagged - **The tension line** — the complication stated in one sentence; the thing the whole deck resolves - **The transition script** — the spoken sentence between each slide that carries the thread ("so if that's the leak — what's causing it?") - **The sag diagnosis** — where the room will drift, and the fix (usually: tension arrived too late or dissolved too early) ## Required Inputs Ask for these if not
- What This Skill Produces
- Required Inputs
- Framework: The Arc Rules
- Output Format
- The Arc Mapping
- The Tension Line
- Transition Script
- Sag Diagnosis
- Quality Checks
- Anti-Patterns
What does the deck-narrative-arc skill do?
Give a deck a spine the room can follow — the situation-complication-resolution arc, the tension that makes the recommendation feel necessary, the transitions that carry the thread between slides, and the arc-check that catches sag. Use when asked make this deck flow, my presentation feels like disconnected slides, structure the story of this pitch/readout, or the room got lost in the middle. Produces the arc mapping, the tension line, the transition script, and the sag diagnosis.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill deck-narrative-arc --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, a repository with 1,255 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.