name: slide-deck description: Research a topic then build a self-contained HTML slide deck with sidebar navigation. Use when asked to create a presentation, slide deck, or interactive guide from research. compatibility: Requires Docker

Requirements

• Docker (image pi-slide-deck-validate built on first run)
• No Python, html5lib, or beautifulsoup4 needed on host

Slide Deck Builder

How

1. Research with read, bash, grep. Collect source URLs.
2. Plan categories, slide IDs, order. Each slide gets id="slide-<slug>".
3. Copy templates/sidebar-deck.html as the scaffold. It has every CSS class, layout, and JS hook you need — don't reinvent any of it.
4. Write one <div class="slide"> per topic. Nav items must have a 1:1 mapping to slide IDs.
5. Output to {skill-dir}/tmp/{yyyy-mm-dd}-{topic-slug}.html. Create mkdir -p {skill-dir}/tmp first. Resolve {skill-dir} from this SKILL.md's location.
6. Open in browser: open {output-path}.

Content Rules

• Description first. Every slide opens with <div class="description"> explaining what and why, before anything else.
• Actionable examples. <div class="prompts"> for CLI commands, agent prompts, "try this" steps. Skip if topic has none.
• Real code, no pseudocode. <div class="code-block"> with actual runnable TypeScript/bash/JSON. No ... ellipsis hiding relevant code.
• Key points grid. <div class="key-points"> (2-col) for the 2-4 most important takeaways per slide.
• Feature grids only for overviews. <div class="feature-grid"> on title/intro slides, not per-topic slides.
• Category tag every slide. <span class="ext-tag tag-<category>">. Tags: safety, tool, command, ui, render, prompt, git, session, game, system, provider.
• Strong highlights the noun, not the verb. "a <strong>stateful tool</strong> that demonstrates..." not "a stateful tool that <strong>demonstrates</strong>..."
• Source links on every slide. <div class="sources"> at the bottom with <a href> links to origin files, repos, docs, Wikipedia. No slide without at least one link.

Negative Constraints

• No CDN, no @import, no external deps of any kind (including fonts). The template uses system font stacks — copy them, don't add Google Fonts.
• No light mode, no theme toggle, no responsive breakpoints below 768px.
• Don't invent new CSS custom properties. The template defines them all.
• Don't cram multiple topics into one slide.
• Don't write HTML from scratch. Copy templates/sidebar-deck.html and fill in content — the scaffold's <div class="main"> wrapper, nav structure, and JS hooks must be preserved exactly.
• No misnested elements. Browsers auto-close parents on invalid nesting (e.g. <span> wrapping <div>), silently breaking DOM. Use the template's nesting patterns exactly.

Verification

Before writing, run:

scripts/validate.sh OUTPUT.html

Runs in Docker — no host dependencies. Uses html5lib parser (mirrors browser DOM construction) to catch misnested elements, broken nav links, and external deps. Fix all ✗ before writing.

Editorial rules (description first, sources with links, etc.) are enforced by Content Rules above — the validator only checks structural validity.