make-ppt

Make PPT

When to Use

Use when the user wants to create or substantially improve a presentation from a topic, brief, source material, existing outline, or partial draft.

Use especially for management reports, customer decks, sales decks, board-style updates, technical explainers, and research-backed presentations where one-shot slide generation would be risky.

Do not use for small edits to an existing .pptx; use a PPT inspection/editing tool for that.

Do not assume a specific renderer, browser, research tool, or export path. This skill controls the workflow, not the implementation.

Supported Inputs

• Topic only.
• Topic plus brief.
• Source-driven request with reports, URLs, PDFs, notes, transcripts, or existing materials.
• Existing outline, draft deck, or page ideas.

If the brief is too thin, ask only for the minimum missing fields: audience, purpose, page-count range, tone/style, must-have content, must-avoid claims, and whether the user wants review gates.

Output Layers

Stop at the layer the user needs:

1. research-brief: facts, evidence, caveats, source notes, open questions.
2. outline: section logic, page titles, page goals.
3. planning-draft: page-by-page planning cards with message, evidence, hierarchy, and layout direction.
4. sample-artifact: one or more reviewable sample pages or intermediate artifacts, if the environment can produce them.
5. full-deck-plan: approved structure and page guidance ready for production.
6. review-notes: logic, evidence, density, consistency, and delivery risks.

Default Workflow

1. Clarify the brief just enough to prevent avoidable misfires.
2. Decide whether research or source organization is needed before outlining.
3. Build a compact research brief when facts matter.
4. Produce an outline before design.
5. Produce a planning draft for non-trivial decks.
6. Pause for review on complex, external-facing, management, customer, or high-stakes decks.
7. Expand only after the direction is accepted.
8. Final-review logic, factual confidence, evidence coverage, information density, emphasis, hierarchy, and consistency.
9. State any capability limitation plainly, such as missing external research, missing source files, or inability to render/export slides.

References

• references/method.md: staged PPT method.
• references/agent-integration.md: capability-aware coordination rules.
• references/prompts.md: reusable prompts for research, outlining, planning, review, and optional format-specific generation.

Return Format

For early stages, return the requested layer with explicit open questions and recommended next step.

For review gates, return a concise artifact the user can approve, reject, or redirect.

For final delivery, return produced file/artifact paths when available, plus a QA summary and remaining manual checks.

Limits and Known Issues

• This skill does not itself create editable PPTX files; it guides the staged work. Use a PPT file tool or renderer when an actual deck file is required.
• Do not invent current facts, market numbers, citations, or source-backed claims.
• If external research is unavailable, mark the result as source-limited.