generate-presentation_skill

Overview

This skill generates professional, web-ready HTML presentations and a matching PDF from markdown, URLs, plain text, or a topic. It produces visually consistent slides with AI-generated illustrations, keyboard navigation, and an automatic PDF export. The output is self-contained and targets 1920x1080 slides ready for presentation or sharing.

How this skill works

It ingests content from a markdown file, fetched URL, or user-provided text and drafts concise slide content in presentation/content.md for review. It analyzes reference images to extract color, typography, and layout cues, then builds a single inline-CSS HTML slideshow (presentation/slides.html) with keyboard navigation and per-slide images. The skill generates custom illustrations for slides, validates screenshots when tools are available, and combines slide images into presentation/presentation.pdf.

When to use it

• You need a polished presentation quickly from a topic or plain text.
• You have markdown or a URL and want a visual slide deck without manual layout work.
• You want consistent styling that matches a set of reference images.
• You require both an interactive HTML deck and a print-ready PDF export.
• You want AI-assisted illustrations tailored to each slide.

Best practices

• Provide an explicit source: .md file, URL, or a clear topic description to speed content drafting.
• If input is not a .md file, review and approve presentation/content.md before design begins.
• Supply reference images or brand colors to ensure the visual style matches your expectations.
• Specify slide count or audience if you have constraints (default is 5–15 slides).
• Accept or decline generated images; by default the skill creates at least 2–3 illustrations per deck.

Example use cases

• Turn a project README or a blog post URL into a concise slide deck for stakeholder meetings.
• Generate a pitch deck from a short topic prompt and get both HTML and PDF outputs.
• Convert course notes in markdown into lecture slides with illustrations and a downloadable PDF.
• Produce a product demo walkthrough with diagrams and branded visual style matched to references.
• Quickly mock up investor slides from bullet points and export screenshots for review.