| name | review-slide-wit |
| description | Review humor, satire, irony, metaphor, and rhetorical wit in a Marp presentation for purpose, precision, speaker voice, audience fit, and context-collapse safety. Use when a talk contains jokes or playful phrasing, needs sharper memorable language, risks punching down or being misread in screenshots, or should remain serious without forced humor. |
Review Slide Wit
Treat wit as a delivery mechanism for insight, not a quota. A serious deck can pass with no jokes. Improve only moments where humor or rhetorical compression serves comprehension, tension release, memory, or honest self-critique.
Inputs
Read the full deck and, if present, vendor/3shake-marp-templates/.claude/rules/slide-writing.md. Infer event type, audience, speaker role, employer attribution, recording policy, and whether humor is already part of the speaker’s voice. State uncertain assumptions.
Number slides by rendered order. Review the surrounding setup and payoff, not isolated lines only.
Workflow
- Inventory deliberate and accidental humor: self-deprecation, irony, contrast, understatement, exaggeration, analogy, callback, parody, wordplay, and visual juxtaposition.
- For each moment, name its job: open attention, translate complexity, release tension, expose contradiction, build solidarity, sharpen a claim, or create recall.
- Test precision. The setup must be understandable, the target identifiable, and the insight still valid when the joke is removed.
- Test voice. Compare diction and confidence with the rest of the deck; flag lines that sound imported, performative, or AI-polished.
- Test direction of force:
- safest: speaker’s own verified behavior, shared constraints, systems, incentives, powerful institutions;
- high risk: named individuals, vulnerable groups, protected attributes, trauma, illness, disability, or people with less power.
- Run context-collapse tests: projected live, clipped as one screenshot, quoted without tone, recorded, translated, and associated with the employer.
