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:
research-brief: facts, evidence, caveats, source notes, open questions.
outline: section logic, page titles, page goals.
planning-draft: page-by-page planning cards with message, evidence, hierarchy, and layout direction.
sample-artifact: one or more reviewable sample pages or intermediate artifacts, if the environment can produce them.
full-deck-plan: approved structure and page guidance ready for production.
review-notes: logic, evidence, density, consistency, and delivery risks.
Default Workflow
- Clarify the brief just enough to prevent avoidable misfires.
- Decide whether research or source organization is needed before outlining.
- Build a compact research brief when facts matter.
- Produce an outline before design.
- Produce a planning draft for non-trivial decks.
- Pause for review on complex, external-facing, management, customer, or high-stakes decks.
- Expand only after the direction is accepted.
- Final-review logic, factual confidence, evidence coverage, information density, emphasis, hierarchy, and consistency.
- 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.
1---2name: make-ppt3description: Make PPT4---56# Make PPT78## When to Use910Use when the user wants to create or substantially improve a presentation from a topic, brief, source material, existing outline, or partial draft.1112Use 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.1314Do not use for small edits to an existing `.pptx`; use a PPT inspection/editing tool for that.1516Do not assume a specific renderer, browser, research tool, or export path. This skill controls the workflow, not the implementation.1718## Supported Inputs1920- Topic only.21- Topic plus brief.22- Source-driven request with reports, URLs, PDFs, notes, transcripts, or existing materials.23- Existing outline, draft deck, or page ideas.2425If 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.2627## Output Layers2829Stop at the layer the user needs:30311. `research-brief`: facts, evidence, caveats, source notes, open questions.322. `outline`: section logic, page titles, page goals.333. `planning-draft`: page-by-page planning cards with message, evidence, hierarchy, and layout direction.344. `sample-artifact`: one or more reviewable sample pages or intermediate artifacts, if the environment can produce them.355. `full-deck-plan`: approved structure and page guidance ready for production.366. `review-notes`: logic, evidence, density, consistency, and delivery risks.3738## Default Workflow39401. Clarify the brief just enough to prevent avoidable misfires.412. Decide whether research or source organization is needed before outlining.423. Build a compact research brief when facts matter.434. Produce an outline before design.445. Produce a planning draft for non-trivial decks.456. Pause for review on complex, external-facing, management, customer, or high-stakes decks.467. Expand only after the direction is accepted.478. Final-review logic, factual confidence, evidence coverage, information density, emphasis, hierarchy, and consistency.489. State any capability limitation plainly, such as missing external research, missing source files, or inability to render/export slides.4950## References5152- `references/method.md`: staged PPT method.53- `references/agent-integration.md`: capability-aware coordination rules.54- `references/prompts.md`: reusable prompts for research, outlining, planning, review, and optional format-specific generation.5556## Return Format5758For early stages, return the requested layer with explicit open questions and recommended next step.5960For review gates, return a concise artifact the user can approve, reject, or redirect.6162For final delivery, return produced file/artifact paths when available, plus a QA summary and remaining manual checks.6364## Limits and Known Issues6566- 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.67- Do not invent current facts, market numbers, citations, or source-backed claims.68- If external research is unavailable, mark the result as source-limited.