Wowerpoint

One doc in, one deck out. Slide-deck only, videos and podcasts from the same engine are noticeably worse and out of scope; refer the user to the notebooklm CLI directly if they want those.

Triggers

• "Wowerpoint <file>"
• "Make a slide deck about <file>"
• "Turn this report into slides"
• "Kawaii-deck this"

Setup (one-time per machine)

If notebooklm auth check returns 0 and command -v jq resolves, skip.

uv tool install --with playwright --force notebooklm-py
$(uv tool dir)/notebooklm-py/bin/playwright install chromium

jq is required by the workflow's JSON parsing; install if missing (brew install jq on macOS, or your distro's package manager).

Then the user authenticates interactively, do not script. Tell them to type ! notebooklm login so the OAuth ENTER lands in their terminal.

Workflow

1. The source doc

You need exactly one source doc. If it doesn't exist or is too thin to carry a deck, write it first, use mem-search and sequential thinking to make it comprehensive (long-form, narrative, several thousand words is normal). Do not paper over a weak source by adding more sources.

2. Auth pre-flight

notebooklm auth check 2>&1 | tail -5

Exit 1 with Run 'notebooklm login' to authenticate. = halt and tell the user.

3. Create notebook, add the source

NOTEBOOK_ID=$(notebooklm create "<title>" --json | jq -r .notebook.id)
notebooklm source add "<doc-path>" --notebook "$NOTEBOOK_ID" --json

Title: H1 of the source doc, or its filename stem; append a date for dated work.

create returns the id at .notebook.id; a wrong key gives an empty string and a silent downstream failure.

4. Generate the deck

notebooklm generate slide-deck "<PROMPT>" --format detailed --length default --notebook "$NOTEBOOK_ID" --json --retry 2

5. End your turn

Print the notebook URL:

https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/<NOTEBOOK_ID>