Insights Deck

Insights Deck Skill

Archive a Codex /insights HTML report and generate a Beamer presentation summarising the findings. All outputs go to log/insights/ with date stamps.

When to Use

• After running /insights to review your Codex usage patterns
• When you want a shareable deck summarising how you use Codex
• For periodic self-reflection on AI-assisted workflow

Scope

This skill produces two outputs only: an archived HTML report and a Beamer deck. Do NOT use insights suggestions to create plans, rules, AGENTS.md edits, or other follow-up actions during this skill's execution. If the user wants to act on suggestions, that happens after the deck is delivered — as a separate conversation.

Phase 1 — Generate & Archive Insights

Step 1: Prompt the user to run /insights

/insights is a built-in Codex command that cannot be invoked programmatically. Tell the user:

Please run /insights now. Once the HTML report opens in your browser, let me know and I'll continue.

Step 2: Locate the generated HTML

After /insights completes, find the most recent insights HTML file:

ls -t /tmp/Codex-insights-*.html 2>/dev/null | head -1

If not found in /tmp/, check the user's home directory and common download locations. Ask the user for the path if it can't be located automatically.

Step 3: Archive the HTML

Each insights run gets its own date folder:

mkdir -p log/insights/YYYY-MM-DD
cp <source-html> log/insights/YYYY-MM-DD/insights-YYYY-MM-DD-log.html

Use today's date for the timestamp.

Phase 2 — Build Beamer Deck

Step 1: Read and extract findings

Read the archived HTML file (log/insights/YYYY-MM-DD/insights-YYYY-MM-DD-log.html). Extract:

1. Usage patterns — most-used tools, session frequency, typical session length
2. Strengths — what's working well in the workflow
3. Friction points — repeated failures, slow patterns, underused features
4. Recommendations — suggested improvements

Step 2: Design the deck structure

Apply rhetoric principles from the beamer-deck skill (condensed — no sub-agent reviews needed for an internal deck):

• Assertion titles — every frame title states a claim, not a label
• One idea per slide — split if a slide has two ideas
• Three-act arc:
  • Act I (Tension): Current usage snapshot — what does the data show?
  • Act II (Development): Patterns, strengths, friction points
  • Act III (Resolution): Recommendations and next steps
• MB/MC balance — vary dense and light slides deliberately
• Pyramid principle — lead with conclusions, then support

Step 3: Generate the .tex file

Write to log/insights/YYYY-MM-DD/insights-YYYY-MM-DD-deck.tex with:

• \documentclass[aspectratio=169,11pt]{beamer}
• Original inline theme (no default Beamer themes)
• Professional colour palette:

  \definecolor{Midnight}{HTML}{1A1A2E}
  \definecolor{DeepBlue}{HTML}{16213E}
  \definecolor{RoyalBlue}{HTML}{0F3460}
  \definecolor{Coral}{HTML}{E94560}
  \definecolor{SoftGray}{HTML}{BDC3C7}
  \definecolor{CloudWhite}{HTML}{FAFBFC}
  

• Suggested structure (adapt based on findings):
  1. Title slide — "Codex Usage: [Month Year]"
  2. Opening claim — lead with the most striking finding
  3. Usage overview — session count, tool distribution, time patterns
  4. Top strengths (1–2 slides)
  5. Key friction points (1–2 slides)
  6. Recommendations (1–2 slides)
  7. Closing — single actionable takeaway

Step 4: Compile

Create a .latexmkrc in the date folder if not present:

$out_dir = 'out';
# Copy PDF back to source directory after build
END { system("cp $out_dir/*.pdf . 2>/dev/null") if defined $out_dir; }

Then compile:

cd log/insights/YYYY-MM-DD && latexmk -pdf insights-YYYY-MM-DD-deck.tex

Step 5: Fix all warnings

Parse out/*.log for overfull/underfull hbox/vbox warnings. Fix every one. Recompile until clean.

The .latexmkrc copies the PDF from out/ back to the date folder automatically.

Output

When complete, the date folder should contain:

log/insights/YYYY-MM-DD/
├── insights-YYYY-MM-DD-log.html     # Archived /insights HTML
├── insights-YYYY-MM-DD-deck.tex     # Beamer source
├── insights-YYYY-MM-DD-deck.pdf     # Compiled PDF
├── .latexmkrc                       # Build config
└── out/                             # Build artifacts

Each /insights-deck run creates a new date folder, keeping the parent log/insights/ clean.

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