Slide Deck Generator

Generate professional slide decks from briefs with optional research, outline approval, and PPTX export.

Prerequisites

The document-skills plugin MUST be installed for PPTX rendering:

/plugin list | grep document-skills

If not installed, tell the user:

The document-skills plugin is required for PPTX generation.
Install it with: /plugin install document-skills@anthropic-agent-skills

Pipeline (4 Steps)

Step 1: Gather Brief

Parse the user's topic and description. Use AskUserQuestion to clarify:

Question 1 - Audience:

• Executives / Board
• Engineers / Technical
• Investors / Fundraising
• General / Mixed

Question 2 - Slide count target:

• Short (5-10 slides)
• Standard (10-20 slides)
• Extended (20+ slides)

Question 3 - Tone:

• Formal / Business
• Technical / Detailed
• Casual / Conversational

If the user already provided clear context (e.g., "10-slide investor pitch deck about our Series A"), skip questions where the answer is obvious.

Step 2: Research (Optional)

If the topic needs external research or context gathering:

• Use the Task tool with Explore or general-purpose subagent to gather relevant information
• For deeper multi-AI research, suggest: "For comprehensive multi-provider research, run /octo:discover [topic] first, then /octo:deck to build slides from the results"
• If the user provides their own content, notes, or a research file, skip this step entirely

This step is OPTIONAL. Many decks are built from the user's own knowledge or existing documents.

Step 3: Generate Outline

Build a slide-by-slide outline in markdown format. Structure:

## Slide 1: [Title Slide]
- Presentation title
- Subtitle / Date / Author

## Slide 2: [Agenda / Overview]
- Key topics to cover

## Slide 3: [First Content Section]
- Bullet point 1
- Bullet point 2
- Bullet point 3

## Slide N: [Summary / Next Steps]
- Key takeaways
- Call to action