Presentation (PPTX)

How to build a slide deck with save_presentation. Write every slide in the user's language.

Before you write

• Work out the audience, the goal of the deck and the one thing they should remember. If the request leaves these open, infer them from the conversation instead of asking.
• Length: follow the user. With no length given, aim for 8-12 slides; a quick update can be 3-5.
• Use only facts from the conversation, tool results and files you read. Never invent numbers, names or quotes. If a figure is missing, mark it "TBD" or leave it out.

Structure

1. Title slide: every deck opens with one. title + subtitle only (date, team or a one-line summary); no bullets, table or chart on it.
2. Summary: the conclusion and the 3 points that support it, before any detail.
3. Body: one slide per point, in the order the story needs. When the deck has several parts, open each part with a slide that has only title + subtitle.
4. Close: the decision, recommendation or next steps, with owners and dates when known.
5. Sources: a last slide listing where the data came from, if you used any.

Each slide

• One message per slide, and the title is that message: a full sentence with the key number when there is one.
  • Bad: "Monthly revenue", "Customer metrics", "Q4 plan".
  • Good: "Revenue grew every month, reaching 150M in September", "Churn fell from 4.2% to 3.1%", "We will raise online ad spend by 20% in Q4".
  • Before saving, check every content slide's title against this rule.
• 3-5 bullets, each one line (about 60 characters or less). Write phrases, not paragraphs. Indent a sub point with two leading spaces only when it belongs under the point above; never go deeper than one level.
• Put what the presenter would say in notes, not on the slide.
• Numbers go in a chart or a table, not in a long bullet:
  • comparing items: chart.type "bar"
  • change over time: "line"
  • share of a whole with 5 slices or fewer: "pie" with exactly one series
  • several items by several attributes: table (up to 20 rows by 8 columns; split a longer table across slides)
• categories and every series' values have the same length. Put units in the slide title or the series name ("Revenue (USD M)").
• One body per slide, two at most: bullets with a chart, or bullets with a table. They are placed side by side.
• Never show the same numbers twice on a slide. Pick the chart for trends and comparisons, the table for exact values.
• One chart shows one unit. Don't put counts and percentages in the same chart; use two slides or put one of them in bullets.
• Leave out fields you don't use instead of sending empty strings or empty arrays.

Saving

• Call save_presentation once with the whole deck: a path under /decks/ ending in .pptx, a deck title and a one-line description.
• theme: "light" unless the user asks for dark.
• To revise, call save_presentation again with the same path and the complete updated slides.

Your reply

Two or three lines: how many slides and what the deck covers. Don't paste the slide text into the chat.