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.

How The Pipeline Advances

Start with rhetorical-orchestrator. It is the meta-skill that checks the current state, routes to the earliest missing or stale stage, and prevents premature slide compilation.

Each stage skill has a Next Route contract:

• stay in the current skill while the artifact is unresolved, unapproved, or still being shaped by the user
• load the named next skill only after the current artifact is approved, or after the user supplies an approved equivalent
• route backward to the earliest affected upstream skill when new information changes intent, insight, argument, slide theses, evidence, design assumptions, or delivery constraints
• preserve how the current artifact feeds the whole deck, so later stages do not invent strategy, claims, evidence, visuals, or delivery choices the user has not owned

The normal route is:

rhetorical-orchestrator
  -> intent-framer
  -> insight-externalizer
  -> argument-spine-builder
  -> slide-thesis-mapper
  -> evidence-curator / cognitive-designer / visual-reasoner / content-distiller as needed
  -> deck-compiler
  -> critique-iterator / delivery-coach

The first four artifacts are hard gates before compilation: approved intent, approved insight, approved argument spine, and approved slide thesis map. Phase 2 skills may run in the order the deck needs, but they must preserve those upstream artifacts.

The intent stage is deliberately elicitation-first. Sparse answers should produce an Intent Exploration with activating questions, candidate frames, and a zoom-out option, not a polished brief that asks the user to approve the model's assumptions.

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

For ChatGPT web, ChatGPT Agent Studio, or Claude web, download the latest web skill artifact:

• Download rhetoric-engine.skill for ChatGPT web and ChatGPT Agent Studio.
• Download rhetoric-engine-chatgpt.zip as a ChatGPT zip fallback.
• Download rhetoric-engine-claude.zip for Claude web.

For coding agents, install from the GitHub repo:

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.

Web Install

ChatGPT Web Skills

1. Download rhetoric-engine.skill.
2. Open ChatGPT.
3. Open your profile menu, then Skills.
4. Click New skill.
5. Upload the downloaded .skill file.

ChatGPT Agent Studio

1. Download rhetoric-engine.skill.
2. Open the agent in ChatGPT Agent Studio.
3. Click Add skill.
4. Choose Upload skill.
5. Upload the downloaded .skill file.

Claude Web

1. Download rhetoric-engine-claude.zip.
2. Open Claude.
3. Go to Settings / Customize / Skills.
4. Upload the downloaded zip file.

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. Approval means the user has shaped or accepted the artifact; model-generated assumptions alone are not approved artifacts.