Slideshow Producer

Slideshow Producer

Use When

• The user wants TikTok slideshow or Instagram carousel production from vibe, local images, slide prompts, reviewable manifest JSON, generated images, and final text overlays.
• Use after script/hook strategy is clear enough to plan slides. This skill owns slide manifest, preview/review, generation orchestration, and compositing.

Do Not Use When

• The task belongs to ideation, QA, or another released skill listed in the handoff section.
• Required inputs are missing and guessing would change the result.

Execution Boundary

• Do not write hook variants from scratch, bypass the shared image command, create persona packs, or replace final creative QA.
• Route slides by reference state: image-gpt-image-2-text for slides without references, image-gpt-image-2-edit for slides with references.
• Slideshow aspect is a creative choice passed as --aspect-ratio (TikTok 9:16; Instagram carousel 4:5 unless the user asks otherwise). The other image defaults (quality, resolution, output format) are owned by the image create verb — discover them via postplus media schema --json; do not restate hosted enums here.

Manifest And Routing

• The slide manifest is the routing source of truth.
• imageSource: "local" uses localImagePath as the final image and must not call generation.
• imageSource: "generate" with no reference paths/URLs must use image-gpt-image-2-text.
• imageSource: "generate" with any reference path/URL must use image-gpt-image-2-edit.
• Never send reference-backed slides through text-to-image. Fix the manifest before generation if routing is inconsistent.

Source And Prompt

• Ask for platform, slideshow count, vibe, source basis, output folder, and any local images. Classify local images as final slide images or generation references.
• Prompts should be core scene plus vibe in two or three sentences. Add concrete product, environment, emotion, and prop details when they matter; avoid long negative-constraint walls.
• Save a local manifest before generation. For three or more slideshows, split manifest drafting across parallel sub-agents, then the main agent reviews the collected manifests.

Review And Handoff

• Before generation, ask for explicit approval: number of slides, model, quality, resolution, and counts of text-to-image versus reference edits.
• After compositing, hand off final image paths, updated manifest, and any creative-qa or publishing.

Stop Conditions

• Stop when required user intent, source evidence, or owned input artifacts are missing and guessing would change the result.
• If an owned CLI or script command fails, report the exact error and stop. Do not bypass the failure with metadata-only answers, readiness probing, local payload rewrites, alternate execution paths, or unpublished tools.

Public Command Boundary

• Choose the smallest matching command or workflow from the user input and run it directly.
• Readiness diagnostics: postplus doctor --skill slideshow-producer.
• If an owned CLI or script command fails, report the exact error and stop. Do not bypass the failure with metadata-only answers, readiness probing, local payload rewrites, alternate execution paths, or unpublished tools.
• Use postplus media schema --json only when constructing or repairing an unknown request shape.
• Generate each slide through the shared image create verb (owned by image-batch-runner), attributing the run to this skill: postplus media create image-gpt-image-2-text --skill slideshow-producer --prompt '<scene + vibe>' --aspect-ratio <ratio> --output <result.json>. For reference-backed slides use image-gpt-image-2-edit with one or more --reference-image <url>. Do not use another execution interface.
• If the CLI returns a quote-confirmation challenge, run postplus quote confirm --json --challenge-file <challenge.json> and retry with the returned token.