slides-grab Plan Skill

Use this when the user asks to start a new presentation from scratch.

Goal

Produce an approved slide-outline.md before any slide HTML generation.

Inputs

• Topic and intent
• Audience
• Tone and constraints
• Optional research findings

Output

• slide-outline.md (must include style: <id>, style: template-pack, or an approved custom style direction in meta section)
• For chart-heavy decks, explicit chart slide notes: chart type, data source, key comparison, and whether the design stage should use the default Chart.js canvas template.

Workflow

1. Analyze user goal and audience.
2. Style selection (mandatory, before outline): Four paths are accepted, in priority order:

a. Imported template pack — when the user provides a corporate deck, reference slides, HTML examples, or brand images, run slides-grab import-template --input <path> --slides-dir <slides-dir> (repeat --input for multiple examples). Prefer filled representative decks/examples over empty master templates: filled examples reveal density, schema field limits, font resolution, and layout stress cases; an empty master alone is insufficient. Confirm the generated <slides-dir>/.slides-grab/template-pack.json is the intended reference source. Record as style: template-pack. b. Bundled style — run slides-grab list-styles, shortlist 2–3 styles, and get explicit user approval. Optionally offer slides-grab preview-styles for visual preview. Record as style: <id>. c. Custom DESIGN.md path — if a local DESIGN.md exists (e.g. provided directly or fetched via slides-grab import-design <https-url>), inspect it with slides-grab show-design ./DESIGN.md and confirm with the user. d. Free-form custom direction — if neither imported template pack, bundled style, nor DESIGN.md fits, propose a written custom direction and get approval.

1. DESIGN.md → DESIGN.slides.md conversion (mandatory when path 2c was chosen):

- A DESIGN.md imported from voltagent/awesome-design-md or similar sources describes a marketing website (top-nav, hero-band, CTA buttons, pricing cards, footer-band). Slides are single 720pt × 405pt frames with no scroll, no nav, no clicks — copying web components into slides produces deck pages that look like landing pages. - Read references/design-md-to-slides-conversion.md for the canonical conversion guide. - Translate the imported ./DESIGN.md into a sibling ./DESIGN.slides.md next to it. Leave the original DESIGN.md untouched. The DESIGN.slides.md MUST follow the Output Contract in the reference and apply every row of the web → slide mapping table (top-nav → eyebrow strip, hero-band → cover layout, CTA buttons → kicker text, footer-band → thin footer strip, pricing grids → dropped, etc.). - Present a 5–10 line summary of the conversion to the user (kept tokens + dropped web sections + new slide layouts inferred) and wait for explicit approval before continuing. - After approval, run slides-grab show-design ./DESIGN.slides.md to confirm the parser reads it cleanly.

1. Create or revise slide-outline.md with ordered slides and key messages. Record the approved style reference in the meta section:

- bundled style → style: <id> - converted DESIGN.slides.md → style: ./DESIGN.slides.md - imported template pack → style: template-pack and keep <slides-dir>/.slides-grab/template-pack.json with its .slides-grab/template-previews/ assets - free-form custom direction → leave a one-paragraph style: block describing it - for chart slides, name the intended chart type and data payload in the slide notes so Stage 2 can build a real Chart.js canvas instead of placeholder bars or decorative pseudo-charts - delivery mode → mode: html for semantic slide HTML, or mode: image-native for raster wrapper slides generated from the approved template/style; prefer image-native for existing corporate templates/forms when the user asks for visual matching rather than editable HTML 4b. Image-native outline density (mandatory when mode: image-native and a template is provided): When the user provides a reference template (PDF/PPTX) for image-native generation, do NOT write a thin HTML-style outline. Instead: - Render the template pages to PNG and open them in order (page-01, page-02, ...). - For each template page, identify its layout type (cover, section divider, content grid, stat tiles, table, timeline, closing) and measure its information density — how many distinct text blocks, data points, bullets, captions, and visual elements it carries. - Write one outline slide per template page (or per logical template section), matching that page's layout type and information volume. If template page 3 has a 2×3 stat grid with 6 data points and 3 captions, the corresponding outline slide must also list 6 data points and 3 captions — not just a one-line summary. - Image-native slides are single raster images with no HTML structure constraints, so they can hold more text and data per slide than semantic HTML. Pack the outline with the full content the user wants on each slide — titles, subtitles, body paragraphs, bullet lists, data tables, stat values, captions, and image placement notes — at the density the template page demonstrates. - Tag each outline slide with its matching template page number (e.g. template-page: 03) so Stage 2 knows which --reference image to pass. - The result should be a noticeably denser outline than HTML mode: more bullets, more data, more text per slide, matching what the template's filled pages actually carry.

1. Present a concise summary to user.
2. Repeat revisions until explicit approval.

Rules

• Do not write the outline before the user approves a style. Style selection comes first.
• Do not generate slide HTML (<slides-dir>/slide-*.html) in this stage.
• Keep scope to structure, narrative, and style selection.
• For quantitative stories, plan charts as evidence: identify the source values, comparison axis, baseline, and intended takeaway. Do not invent filler metrics just to fill a chart.
• Ask for approval before moving to design.
• Assume later stages run through the packaged slides-grab CLI.
• Use the packaged CLI and bundled references only; do not depend on unpublished agent-specific files.

Reference

If needed, use the bundled outline reference:

• references/outline-format.md
• references/plan-workflow-reference.md — archived detailed planning workflow and runtime-neutral outline-worker guidance
• references/design-md-to-slides-conversion.md — DESIGN.md (web) → DESIGN.slides.md (slide) translation guide, including the structured output template and the web → slide mapping table