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deck-outline-first
Outline a deck as headline sentences before opening the slide tool — each slide a claim that reads as an argument top to bottom, the audience-and-ask header, and the skim test that catches broken decks while they're still bullet points. Use when asked start this presentation, structure my deck, why does my deck feel like a data tour, or get sign-off before I build slides. Produces the headline outline, the per-slide evidence notes, the skim test result, and the build rules.
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# Deck Outline First Skill
Decks built slide-first inherit the tool's failure mode: hours of formatting sunk into slides whose *argument* was never designed, discovered broken in rehearsal (or worse, in the room). The outline-first discipline is [outline-before-prose](../outline-before-prose/SKILL.md) for the slide medium: every slide is one **headline sentence** — a claim, not a topic ("Churn concentrates in month two" not "Churn Analysis") — the headlines read in sequence as the complete argument, and the skim test (read only the headlines — does the case hold?) runs before any slideware opens. Slides then become evidence for their headlines, which is all slides were ever supposed to be.
## What This Skill Produces
- **The header** — audience, the decision/ask, the time slot (which caps the slide count)
- **The headline outline** — one claim-sentence per slide, in argument order
- **The evidence notes** — per slide: what will carry the claim (the chart, the number, the quote — noted, not built)
- **The skim test + build rules** — the headlines-only read-through, and the rules that keep the build faithful
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