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template-deck-builder
Builds and edits PowerPoint decks bound to a company's own .pptx or .potx template, with a consulting-grade storyline and a rendered visual QA pass. Maps the template's masters, layouts, placeholders, theme colors and fonts; drafts a storyboard of action titles (pyramid principle, SCR) for approval; fills the template's own placeholders instead of drawing text boxes; adds native charts in theme colors, tables sized to placeholders, speaker notes and source lines; then renders every slide to PNG and checks text overflow, off-slide and overlapping shapes, off-theme fonts and colors, empty placeholders and weak titles. Use whenever the user says use our template, company deck, brand or corporate template, make slides, build a deck, pptx, potx, consulting-style deck, board or client presentation, action titles, or fix my deck formatting, and whenever an existing deck must be edited without breaking its masters. Complements the generic pptx skill.
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# Template Deck Builder
Build decks INTO the company template and make them argue something. The three ways decks go wrong are: rebuilding the template from scratch (floating text boxes, hard-coded colors, ignored layouts), having no storyline (topic-label titles, one slide per data dump), and shipping without looking (overflowing text, boxes over charts). This skill has one step for each.
Scripts need `python-pptx` (`pip install python-pptx`), plus LibreOffice (`soffice`) and poppler (`pdftoppm`) for the render. Anthropic's generic `pptx` skill covers raw pptx manipulation from scratch. Use this skill when a template exists or the deck has to read like consulting work.
## Files
- `scripts/inspect_template.py`: template to `layout_map.json` (layouts, placeholders, geometry, theme, recommended layout per slide type).
- `scripts/build_deck.py`: storyboard JSON to deck, filling placeholders. Also edits an existing deck in place (`--edit`).
- `scripts/qa_deck.py`: checks, render, contact sheet, report. Exits 1 on any ERROR.
- `references/storyboard-schema.md`: every storyboard field, with examples.
- `references/storyline.md`: action titles, pyramid, SCR, ghost deck, chart choice.
- `references/python-pptx-notes.md`: placeholder mechanics, autofit limits, EMU, charts, breakages.