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:
- Split the supplied report, requirements, screenshots, data, and user requests into a content-to-deck analysis.
- Decide what kind of deck it is, who must be convinced, what the story route is, and what must visibly appear on every page.
- Lock the deck style tokens and register each image as style reference, template source, real evidence, replaceable screenshot, or decorative cutout.
- 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.
- 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.
- Turn the approved templates into a layered PPT: background, real images, editable text, and only the overlays that need to remain editable.
- Render, critique composition/hierarchy/density/typography, fix at least one observed defect when needed, and re-inspect the affected pages.