What problem does it solve? Making a slide deck from scattered notes, data, or an old deck normally means re-explaining context at every step and getting generic output that ignores what kind of deck it is. This Skill runs a single intelligent intake, detects the deck's purpose (deep-dive, business review, all-hands, pitch, and more), and drives a staged pipeline that produces a finished .pptx aligned to that purpose. ## Core Features & Use Cases - One-shot intake and purpose detection: Asks for purpose, audience, page budget, must-include material, and mode in a single round, then assembles a SLIDE_PACKET Brief that carries shared context through every stage. - Three-stage relay orchestration: Drives storyline design, page splitting, and visual selection skills in sequence, then hands off to a pptx rendering skill, with express mode (two sign-off gates) or guided mode (per-stage review). - Template-fill branch: When a fixed template is provided (charter, one-page QBR, re-skinning an existing deck), it copies the template, extracts content, fills fixed fields via python-pptx, and optionally recolors to brand colors. - Use Case: You paste messy quarterly notes and say "make a QBR deck." The Skill confirms purpose, audience, and a 12-18 page budget in one intake, then produces a finished .pptx plus the full Brief/Storyline/Pages/Visuals packet in a working folder. ## Quick Start Ask the assistant to turn your raw notes or topic into a slide deck, for example: make a 15-page business review deck from these quarterly metrics and save it to my Drive folder.
