Biolytics Rhetoric Engine

Biolytics Rhetoric Engine is an installable agent skill package for creating better presentations through a staged cognition pipeline.

It helps an agent work with the presenter before, during, and after deck assembly: clarifying intent, surfacing insight, building an argument spine, mapping slide theses, reasoning about audience cognition, curating evidence, distilling content, compiling an editable deck, iterating critique, and preparing delivery.

Not a One-Shot Deck Generator

Rhetoric Engine is not a prompt-to-deck shortcut. It is designed for user-led presentation creation where the important work is thinking, framing, selecting, sequencing, and revising.

One-shot generators tend to produce plausible generic decks from a topic. Rhetoric Engine instead treats a deck as the result of a staged rhetorical process: the user owns the point of view, the agent helps externalize and pressure-test it, and the final artifact emerges from explicit choices.

Install Shape

Install one plugin, get many stage skills.

The package includes install metadata for:

• OpenAI Codex plugin consumers: .codex-plugin/plugin.json and .agents/plugins/marketplace.json
• Anthropic Claude Code plugin consumers: .claude-plugin/plugin.json and .claude-plugin/marketplace.json
• Google Gemini CLI extension consumers: gemini-extension.json and GEMINI.md
• Generic agent consumers: AGENTS.md and the skills/ directory

For step-by-step setup, see INSTALL.md.

Skills

Bootstrap

• rhetorical-orchestrator

Phase 1: Intent, Insight, Argument

• intent-framer
• insight-externalizer
• argument-spine-builder
• slide-thesis-mapper

Phase 2: Cognition, Visuals, Evidence

• cognitive-designer
• visual-reasoner
• evidence-curator

Phase 3: Distillation and Compilation

• content-distiller
• deck-compiler

Phase 4: Critique and Delivery

• critique-iterator
• delivery-coach

Quick Start

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/Biolytics-AI/rhetoric-engine.git

Then install it for your agent platform using INSTALL.md. When in doubt, start by invoking rhetorical-orchestrator; it coordinates the gated workflow and routes to the right stage skill.

Core Rule

Do not compile slides before the user has approved:

• intent
• insight
• argument spine
• slide thesis map

Rhetoric Engine exists to help the user communicate their view, not the model's generic version of it.