competition-ppt-template-first

Competition PPT: Template-First Workflow

Use this skill when a user wants an attractive competition, defense, product-showcase, technical-review, research, or course-presentation deck. The goal is not merely to fill a PPT with text. The goal is a coherent visual narrative in which every page has a purpose-built composition, the important text and evidence remain editable, and the visual system belongs to the actual subject rather than a default AI style.

Read the references needed for the selected mode before creating slides. For any supplied document or project package, read references/content-to-template-analysis.md, references/source-ingestion.md, references/workflow.md, references/project-conventions.md, and references/quality-gates.md; use references/layout-archetypes.md, references/prompt-library.md, references/deck-token-system.md, references/image-asset-roles.md, and references/rendered-visual-critique.md when planning layouts and visual templates.

The Core Principle

Do not start by assembling generic rectangles, UI lines, and text boxes directly in PowerPoint. That approach usually produces a flat, repetitive, low-end deck.

Instead:

1. Split the supplied report, requirements, screenshots, data, and user requests into a content-to-deck analysis.
2. Decide what kind of deck it is, who must be convinced, what the story route is, and what must visibly appear on every page.
3. Lock the deck style tokens and register each image as style reference, template source, real evidence, replaceable screenshot, or decorative cutout.
4. Build a slide map, speaker map, layout registry with page rhythm, and template contract for every page before drawing anything. Create a data-evidence plan for every quantitative or comparison claim.
5. After that page's contract is complete, generate or art-direct one whole-slide visual template image for every page. The template must include the required visual anchor, real-asset zones, text zones, and subject-specific visual ingredients.
6. Turn the approved templates into a layered PPT: background, real images, editable text, and only the overlays that need to remain editable.
7. Render, critique composition/hierarchy/density/typography, fix at least one observed defect when needed, and re-inspect the affected pages.