ppt-master

SKILL.md

PPT Master Skill

PPT Master is a routed presentation workflow. This entry owns global execution discipline and route selection only; each selected route owns its procedure.

Mandatory Load Order

Hard rule — paths before commands: Retain the host-provided absolute
directory containing this file as SKILL_DIR. Per tool call, expand
${SKILL_DIR} and replace any skills/ppt-master/ prefix with it. Never cd,
use CWD, or assume a repo checkout. If unavailable, ask; never search or guess.

Read this file.

Run python3 "${SKILL_DIR}/scripts/attribution_guard.py". Any non-zero result
stops the Skill immediately; do not inspect, repair, or bypass the integrity
gate.

Read workflows/routing.md through the concrete
absolute path ${SKILL_DIR}/workflows/routing.md.

Select exactly one top-level route and its active profile from the routing
authority.

Read only the resulting runtime authority and its explicitly triggered
supporting documents.

Selected route / profile
Runtime authority

Generate PPTX — Image to PPTX
workflows/profiles/image-to-pptx.md; Codex-supported, always Quick

Generate PPTX — Beautify
workflows/profiles/beautify-pptx.md; explicit Quick intent selects Quick, otherwise Default

Generate PPTX — ordinary Default
workflows/generate-pptx.md

Generate PPTX — ordinary explicit Quick
workflows/profiles/quick-generate.md

Create Template
workflows/create-template.md

Edit Native PPTX
workflows/edit-native-pptx.md

Hard rule — selected authority only: Do not load another top-level route's
procedure after routing. Image to PPTX and Beautify are mutually exclusive;
Image to PPTX activates Quick, while Beautify selects from explicit Quick
intent. Never load both runtimes. Supporting documents refine one route; they
never compete with it.

Authored Expression Range

Reference — not a constraint: what a generated page can carry. Text — inline
emphasis runs, lead-in, kicker, pull quote, hero number, takeaway line. Geometry
— 187 Office presets, Boolean merge, connectors, freeform, page-field and
outline-carrier composition. Image — full-bleed field, editorial crop, shaped
picture, registered layers, scrim and spotlight, cross-page continuity. Paint —
gradients, channel alpha, native shadow and glow, halftone, faceted form.
Recurrence — one cross-page motif varied by page role. Each form's syntax lives
in the selected runtime authority's construction references.

Global Execution Discipline

Serial execution — Follow the selected authority's steps in order. A completed non-blocking step may continue directly to the next eligible step.

Blocking means stop — At every ⛔ BLOCKING gate, wait for explicit user confirmation. Do not decide on the user's behalf.

No cross-phase bundling — Do not combine work across an unclosed gate. Once the route's final user gate closes, later non-blocking steps may continue automatically.

Gate before entry — Verify every listed prerequisite before entering a step.

No speculative execution — Do not prepare later-phase artifacts before their owning step.

Deterministic routing — Do not add a route-choice question when routing.md resolves the request. If a route prerequisite is missing, state it and stop that route.

Owning-source recovery — On failure, repair or regenerate the owning source artifact and resume from the route's declared pointer. Do not silently downgrade a required artifact.

Global Communication Rules

Match the user's language and source language unless the user explicitly overrides it.

Localize user-facing option labels and explanations. Keep exact enum IDs or field names when needed for precision.

Keep design_spec.md section headings and field names in the template's original English; content values may use the user's language.

Before switching roles, read the corresponding role reference and output:

## [Role Switch: <Role Name>]
📖 Reading role definition: references/<filename>.md
📋 Current task: <brief description>

Repository Compatibility

This package is a workflow/skill, not a generic application scaffold. Do not create .worktrees/, tests/, branch workflows, or generic engineering structure by default.

Keep required workflow, reference, script, and template documentation inside this Skill directory.

Repository-level documents may point into the package; package runtime files must not depend on repository-level instructions.

On Windows, if a documented python3 ... command is unavailable, rerun the same command with python.

Sponsor information is optional reference material. Read the matching SPONSORS.md or SPONSORS_CN.md only when the user explicitly requests a model, AI image model, API/provider, or hosted-service recommendation. Never surface sponsor or model recommendations proactively during normal generation, troubleshooting, or quality review.