PPT Master Skill

PPT Master is a routed presentation workflow. This entry owns global execution discipline and route selection only; each selected route owns its procedure.

Mandatory Load Order

Hard rule — paths before commands: Retain the host-provided absolute directory containing this file as SKILL_DIR. Per tool call, expand ${SKILL_DIR} and replace any skills/ppt-master/ prefix with it. Never cd, use CWD, or assume a repo checkout. If unavailable, ask; never search or guess.

1. Read this file.
2. Run python3 "${SKILL_DIR}/scripts/attribution_guard.py". Any non-zero result stops the Skill immediately; do not inspect, repair, or bypass the integrity gate. On Windows, a python3 that never starts (the WindowsApps stub exits 9009 with no output) is not a guard result: rerun with python first.
3. Read workflows/routing.md through the concrete absolute path ${SKILL_DIR}/workflows/routing.md.
4. Select exactly one top-level route and its active profile from the routing authority.
5. Read only the resulting runtime authority and its explicitly triggered supporting documents.

Hard rule — selected authority only: Do not load another top-level route's procedure after routing. Image to PPTX and Beautify are mutually exclusive; Image to PPTX activates Quick, while Beautify selects from explicit Quick intent. Never load both runtimes. Supporting documents refine one route; they never compete with it.

Authored Expression Range

Reference — not a constraint: what a generated page can carry. Text — inline emphasis runs, lead-in, kicker, pull quote, hero number, takeaway line. Geometry — 187 Office presets, Boolean merge, connectors, freeform, page-field and outline-carrier composition. Image — full-bleed field, editorial crop, shaped picture, registered layers, scrim and spotlight, cross-page continuity. Paint — gradients, channel alpha, native shadow and glow, halftone, faceted form. Recurrence — one cross-page motif varied by page role. Each form's syntax lives in the selected runtime authority's construction references.

Vocabulary

One meaning per term across every loaded file. Where a word is used in more than one sense, the sense is named here and the files say which one.

Phase Frame

Every route is one Plan → Do·Check·Act cycle: Plan ends when every authoring input exists as a file or retained decision; Do authors pages, Check runs the route's gates, Act repairs at the owning layer (discipline 7), and the cycle ends at export. Step numbers stay as written.

Global Execution Discipline

1. Serial execution — Follow the selected authority's steps in order. A completed non-blocking step may continue directly to the next eligible step.
2. Blocking means stop — At every ⛔ BLOCKING gate, wait for explicit user confirmation. Do not decide on the user's behalf.
3. No cross-phase bundling — Do not combine work across an unclosed gate. Once the route's final user gate closes, later non-blocking steps may continue automatically.
4. Gate before entry — Verify every listed prerequisite before entering a step.
5. No speculative execution — Do not prepare later-phase artifacts before their owning step.
6. Deterministic routing — Do not add a route-choice question when routing.md resolves the request. If a route prerequisite is missing, state it and stop that route.
7. Act at the owning layer — On failure, repair at the shallowest layer that owns the fault: the page for a page-local issue, the Plan artifact for a roster/spec/resource fault, the owning source artifact for a tool failure; then resume from the route's declared pointer. Do not silently downgrade a required artifact.

Global Communication Rules

• Match the user's language and source language unless the user explicitly overrides it.
• Localize user-facing option labels and explanations. Render each fixed message template (role-switch banner, completion report) in the user's chat language when it differs from the template's. Keep exact enum IDs or field names when needed for precision.
• Keep design_spec.md section headings and field names in the template's original English; content values may use the user's language.
• Before switching roles, read the corresponding role reference and output:

## [Role Switch: <Role Name>]
📖 Reading role definition: references/<filename>.md
📋 Current task: <brief description>

Repository Compatibility

• This package is a workflow/skill, not a generic application scaffold. Do not create .worktrees/, tests/, branch workflows, or generic engineering structure by default.
• Keep required workflow, reference, script, and template documentation inside this Skill directory.
• Repository-level documents may point into the package; package runtime files must not depend on repository-level instructions.
• On Windows, if a documented python3 ... command is unavailable, rerun the same command with python.
• Sponsor information is optional reference material. Read the matching SPONSORS.md or SPONSORS_CN.md only when the user explicitly requests a model, AI image model, API/provider, or hosted-service recommendation. Never surface sponsor or model recommendations proactively during normal generation, troubleshooting, or quality review.