@schlessera/brain-module-speaking

Requires Bun ≥ 1.3 (via @schlessera/brain's bun:sqlite) — npm/npx will not warn you (npm ignores engines.bun); install from https://bun.sh.

A brain-kit module for the speaking lifecycle: researching conferences, developing talk ideas, submitting to CFPs, tracking outcomes, preparing talks, planning travel, and wrapping up after a conference.

This module is content + skills only — it contributes taxonomy, classifier hints, index-sync rules, and eight skills. It ships no CLI command and no database.

Contributed document types

| Type | Directory | What lives there | |--------------|----------------|---------------------------------------------------------| | talk | talks/ | Talk registry entries + prep materials (talks/{slug}/) | | conference | conferences/ | Per-conference dirs (conferences/{name}-{year}/) | | travel | travel/ | Per-trip dirs (travel/{trip-slug}/) |

The directories above are the module's static defaults. A default-exported manifest cannot read user config, so if you relocate one of these, also override the type in your brain.config taxonomy.types so path inference stays correct.

Classifier hints

Keyword/phrase heuristics used to guess a document's type during capture:

• conference: cfp, call for papers, keynote, conference, submission deadline, speaker slot
• travel: itinerary, flight, hotel booking, accommodation, road trip, check-in, train to

Personal venue vocabulary (a conference series you attend every year, a home airport, etc.) is intentionally not here — put those in your own brain.config taxonomy.classifierHints so they layer on top.

Index-sync rules

Contributes directory anchors so a wiki-link to a conference/talk/trip directory resolves to the right file:

• dirAnchors: status.md, itinerary.md, outline.md (in addition to the core _index.md)

Excluded path segments

Slide-deck working directories are excluded from indexing (drafts and alternate cuts are noise for search):

• exclude.segments: alt-decks, versions, deck

Skills

| Skill | Purpose | |------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | conference-research | Research a conference's CFP, past themes, audience, and differentiation angles. | | talk-ideas | One-shot generation of 3-5 talk concepts mapped to a conference. | | brainstorm-talks | Interactive, iterative development of talk concepts. | | new-submission | Build a CFP submission (bio, abstract, takeaways) and start status tracking. | | submission-outcome | Record an accept/reject/waitlist decision and sync every tracking layer. | | talk-prep | Generate description, outline, audience analysis, and speaking notes. | | plan-travel | Plan a trip with per-traveler requirements, index sync, and conference links. | | conference-aftermath | Write a retrospective, record the delivery, and archive the conference + trip. |

Genericization notes

• plan-travel reads the travel party from the travelParty config below rather than hardcoding names, and builds a per-member requirements checklist from each member's optional requirementsDoc.
• conference-aftermath ends in a pluggable publishing handoff: if you've configured a content/publishing workflow (e.g. a personal overlay skill), it hands the reflection off; otherwise it writes a plain retrospective note in the conference directory. No platform is baked in.

Config schema

// modules["@schlessera/brain-module-speaking"]
{
  travelParty?: Array<{
    name: string;
    role?: string;            // e.g. "partner", "assistance-dog", "child"
    requirementsDoc?: string; // path (relative to brain root) to that member's needs
  }>;                         // default: []
}

Example:

"@schlessera/brain-module-speaking": {
  travelParty: [
    { name: "Alex Example", role: "partner" },
    { name: "Rover", role: "assistance-dog", requirementsDoc: "me/family/rover.md" },
  ],
}

Scope note

Travel lives inside the speaking module for v1. A standalone travel module is a post-v1 open item.