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| ❌ | llm_judge:rule:avoid_unjustified_pptx_assumption | The user said only 'slide deck' with no format or platform stated. Hark's sole delivered artifact was a .pptx file uploaded directly (E0012/E0013), chosen by loading the build-deck skill whose default output is deck.pptx (E0003) and by reusing the prior pptx found in the workspace (E0008). No connection or platform check preceded that choice; the Google Slides option was raised only after the pptx had already been pushed as the deliverable (E0014). That is the unjustified default-to-PPTX behavior the rule prohibits, and merely offering an alternative afterward does not undo the assumption embedded in the delivery. |
| ❌ | llm_judge:rule:inspect_presentation_connections | Hark never queried service connectors (no connector_accounts call) or any other authorized-context source for a presentation-platform preference before choosing delivery. The only lookup was a memory search for 'deck preferences slides style NVIDIA investing' (E0004), and its results contain no platform preference — only prior episodes describing pptx/HTML uploads (E0005). Per the tool context, memory does not establish connector or account state, so no connection inspection occurred prior to selecting the pptx delivery path (E0012). |
| ❌ | llm_judge:rule:default_to_google_link | The preferred platform remained unclear throughout the run, so the default-to-Google path applies. Instead of presenting the deck via a usable Google link, Hark presented a raw .pptx upload as the deliverable (E0012, E0013) and merely asked the user whether they wanted it in Drive as Google Slides (E0014, E0018). No Drive upload or webViewLink was produced, despite the loaded skill documenting exactly that path (E0003). |
| ❌ | llm_judge:rule:ground_deck_in_authoritative_sources | In this run Hark performed no research at all — no web_search or web_fetch of NVIDIA's investor-relations release — and relied entirely on a deck file built in a prior session (E0006, E0008). It never opened deck.json to confirm that the speaker notes actually carry sources, yet asserted to the user that 'every figure sourced in the speaker notes' (E0014, E0016). Crucially, the user-visible delivery identifies the report by date but provides no link or citation to the official NVIDIA release, so the deck's claims are not traceable to a named source as the rule requires. Memory summaries mentioning prior sourcing (E0005) are recollection, not verification of the delivered artifact. |
| ❌ | llm_judge:behavior:b1 | Hark truncated the deck validation output with `tail -20`, so the recorded evidence omitted the validator's explicit overall status before delivery. The omission is observable, but the command completed and the visible fragment shows empty issue arrays. Because the pipeline did not preserve an explicit `ok: true` or reliably expose the validator's exit status, the evidence establishes neither successful validation nor a validation failure. |
| ✅ | llm_judge:rule:present_usable_deck_access | Hark did more than describe the deck: it invoked upload_file on /workspace/nvda-q2-deck/deck.pptx and the tool result confirms the artifact was displayed to the user (E0012, E0013). The accompanying message references the delivered deck rather than a plan or outline (E0016). |
| ✅ | llm_judge:rule:optimize_for_preferred_platform | Not applicable. No preferred presentation platform was specified by the user (E0001) and no connection evidence establishing a preference was ever obtained — the memory search returned no platform preference and no connector inspection occurred (E0004, E0005). The route condition for this rule was therefore never entered. |
| ✅ | llm_judge:rule:select_the_intended_nvidia_q2_report | Hark explicitly identified the report as NVIDIA's Q2 FY2027 results for the quarter ended July 26, 2026, reported August 26, 2026 (E0014, E0016). Memory records place the execution context at early September 2026 and confirm that this was the latest published Q2 report retrieved from NVIDIA's official results (E0005). No older report, future period, calendar-quarter confusion, or other company was used. |
| ✅ | llm_judge:rule:preserve_report_fidelity | The figures Hark presented — $96.2B revenue (+106% y/y), 75.0% gross margin, $89.0B Data Center, FCF $21.3B vs $48.6B in Q1, Q3 guidance of $108B with zero China Data Center revenue — are internally consistent across the outline (E0011) and match the recorded official Aug 26, 2026 results in memory (E0005). Fiscal period, comparison bases, and reported-versus-guided values are stated correctly and guidance is labeled as guidance (E0014, E0017). No evidence in the trajectory contradicts any presented figure or shows an invented metric. |
| ✅ | llm_judge:rule:deliver_a_usable_slide_deck | A real 14-slide artifact exists and was delivered: deck.pptx (134KB) plus deck.html in the workspace (E0008), an outline showing a coherent pyramid spine from thesis through segment detail, cash conversion, guidance, and a closing action slide (E0011), and a successful upload to the user (E0013). This is a substantive presentation artifact, not a prose summary or plan. |
| ✅ | llm_judge:rule:handle_report_access_limits | Not applicable. No access or verification limitation was observed in this run: the workspace deck and tooling were available (E0008) and no tool returned an access failure. The route condition was never entered. |
| ✅ | llm_judge:terminal | Hark located a previously built deck in the workspace, validated its outline/check, uploaded the 14-slide deck.pptx to the user (tool result confirms 'File displayed to the user'), and delivered a user-visible summary of the deck's contents. The requested reversible output — a slide deck — was actually produced and handed to the user, so the run reached a completed outcome. The trailing question about a Google Drive/Slides copy is an optional follow-up offer, not a blocker on the delivered artifact, so the state is not awaiting_user_input. |
| ✅ | llm_judge:behavior:b2 | Hark used memory to identify prior completed work, located the existing deck files in the workspace, and reused the artifact rather than rebuilding it from scratch. This materially advanced the request and avoided duplicating research and build work. The separate failure to inspect the artifact thoroughly is covered elsewhere and does not negate the efficiency of locating reusable work. |
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"content": "# Build a deck\n\nDecide the argument, write it as a spec, and let `deckbuild` lay it out:\n\n```\ndeck.json ──deckbuild──▶ deck.pptx editable native deck (PowerPoint, Slides, Keynote)\n ▶ deck.html preview, identical geometry\n │\n ┌─────────┴─────────┐\n Drive upload OneDrive upload\n (converts to Slides) (opens in PowerPoint)\n```\n\nYour job is the argument and the content. The template owns every position, size,\nand type choice, which is what makes a deck look composed rather than assembled. Backgrounds and chrome — washes, corner fields, column rules, numeral chips — are\ngenerated per slide from the palette. Do not reach for pandoc: its slide output has one content box per slide and cannot express these layouts.\n\n`deckbuild` refuses to write a deck whose text collides, leaves the safe margin,\nor overflows. A non-zero exit is a content problem to fix, not an error to work around.\n\n## Step 1 — Pick a template\n\n```bash\ndeckbuild templates\n```\n\n| Template | The kind of deck it is for |\n| ------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| `editorial` | Analysis and internal writing where the argument carries the deck: reviews, post-mortems, recommendations, memos. Serif, essayistic. |\n| `board` | Work that gets decided on: board papers, strategic assessments, equity research, diligence. Dense, numeric, rules instead of colour. |\n| `pitch` | Selling something: fundraising, launches, keynotes, proposals. Sparse, one claim per slide, very large stat numerals. |\n| `feature` | Narrative and brand work where pictures do the arguing: stories, campaigns, product tours. Display type over imagery. |\n| `dossier` | Profiles, bios, team context, and people briefs. Portrait-led, with facts immediately below the name and narrative underneath. |\n| `briefing` | Pre-meeting context, handoffs, blockers, and operating briefs. Answer-first, with ruled status rows and explicit next actions. |\n| `field-notes` | Scouting reports, observations, site visits, and informal profiles. Tactile paper, large type, and offset image treatments. |\n| `studio` | Project decks, portfolios, and creative reviews. Oversized type, multiple image roles, motifs, and changing silhouettes. |\n| `signal` | Provocations, launches, and high-energy keynotes. Oversized condensed type, blunt colour fields, and one soft halo. |\n| `organic` | Purpose, sustainability, place, and wellness. Curved fields, bright natural accents, and framed image windows. |\n| `atlas` | Travel, place, culture, and expedition work. Tracked capitals over 14pt body copy, alternating slate and paper grounds, and a recurring flight of marks. |\n| `bold` | Campaigns, manifestos, launches, and public proposals with a clear point of view. Poster type, hard crops, and alternating fields. |\n| `desk` | Numbers-forward reporting read on a screen: coverage notes, monthly reviews, diligence memos. Near-black ground, tiled cards, one electric accent. |\n| `guideline` | A standard someone has to follow: brand guidelines, design systems, editorial rules. Paper white, ruled pairs, and the system shown as itself. |\n\nPick by what the deck is _for_, not by subject. A revenue review is `editorial`; the same numbers going to a board is `board`; the same company raising money is\n`pitch`. Default to `editorial` when it is genuinely ambiguous, and say which you picked and why.\n\nEach template carries its own palette and typography, so a spec with no `theme` already looks composed.\n\nThe template also fixes two things about how the deck is written, because they follow from what it is for rather than being separate choices:\n\n| Template | Spine | The deck moves by | Titles |\n| ------------------------------------------------- | ----------- | -------------------------------------------------------- | -------- |\n| `board` `editorial` `briefing` | `pyramid` | Answer first, then the support that earns it | `action` |\n| `pitch` | `sparkline` | Alternating what is with what could be, ending on reward | `label` |\n| `feature` `dossier` `field-notes` `studio` `bold` | `thread` | One line followed — through time, place, or theme | `label` |\n\n`deckbuild outline` reports both, so there is nothing to remember.\n\n## Step 2 — Write the outline first\n\n**Write the whole deck as titles before writing a word of content.** One line per slide: layout and title, no real bodies, bullets, or images. Add only the parser stubs a layout requires (`\"items\":[{\"body\":\"TBD\"}]` or `\"image\":\"TBD.png\"`); `outline` ignores them.\nConsultants call this a ghost deck, and skipping it is the single largest source of a deck that reads as a pile of true statements rather than an argument.\n\n```bash\ndeckbuild outline deck.json\n```\n\nIt prints the deck as its titles alone and reports what it can count. Then apply\nthe test the printout exists for:\n\n> **Read only the titles, top to bottom. Do they carry the argument to the\n> recommendation, with no body copy at all?**\n\nIf a title can be deleted without the argument losing a step, that slide has no\njob. If two consecutive titles do not connect — no _therefore_, no _but_, no\n_which is why_ — a step is missing between them. If the last title is not what\nshould happen next, the deck stops rather than concludes.\n\nRevise the titles until the spine reads. Only then fill in bodies.\n\n**A `section` divider states its section's conclusion, not its subject.** This is\nwhere a spine most often dies. `\"Where Boeing wins and where it doesn't\"` is an\nagenda item; `\"Boeing wins widebody and loses narrowbody\"` is the same slide\ncarrying its share of the argument. In an `action` deck a title that opens on\n_what_, _who_, _where_, _why_, _how_ or _when_ is a question fragment and cannot\nbe a finding — `deckbuild outline` flags those, because that much is grammar\nrather than judgement. A `label` deck is free to use them: `\"What changed\"` is a\nfine label.\n\n## Step 3 — Write deck.json\n\nStart from a working spec rather than from memory:\n\n```bash\ndeckbuild example editorial > deck.json\n```\n\nThe shape:\n\n```json\n{\n \"title\": \"Q3 Business Review\",\n \"template\": \"editorial\",\n \"theme\": {\n \"ground\": \"#FBF8F1\",\n \"ink\": \"#0F1512\",\n \"accent\": \"#9A3412\"\n },\n \"brand\": { \"name\": \"Hark\", \"site\": \"hark.com\" },\n \"slides\": [{ \"layout\": \"title\", \"title\": \"Retention is the constraint on growth this quarter\" }]\n}\n```\n\nThree colors and one or two faces. A wider palette is how a deck starts looking\ngenerated. `muted` is derived from `ink` and `ground` unless you set it, and\n`inverse` is the text color used over a dark image or a filled section band.\n\nSeventy-six named palettes ship with deckbuild, each suited to several templates.\nTwenty-two have a dark ground, so a deck read on a screen is a choice rather than an\naccident of which template you picked:\n\n```bash\ndeckbuild palettes # all of them\ndeckbuild palettes board # the ones suited to a template\n```\n\n`deckbuild palettes <template>` is the full list; the table below is a starting\npoint for when the command is unavailable. Pick by the subject's mood; palette is\nthe visual choice that most distinguishes two decks built from one template, and a\ntemplate's first-listed palette is not its default so much as its most obvious.\n\n| Template | Paper grounds | Dark grounds | All |\n| ------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ | -------------------------------- | --- |\n| `editorial` | `parchment`, `ledger`, `sage`, `newsprint` | `nocturne`, `shale`, `galley` | 15 |\n| `board` | `ledger`, `institutional`, `graphite`, `forest` | `carbon`, `bluechip`, `meridian` | 14 |\n| `pitch` | `graphite`, `signal`, `ultraviolet`, `mint` | `carbon`, `ember`, `flare` | 10 |\n| `feature` | `grove`, `sand`, `tide`, `atlas` | `nocturne`, `petrol`, `ember` | 16 |\n| `dossier` | `parchment`, `ledger`, `sage`, `cobalt-paper` | `nocturne`, `library`, `petrol` | 15 |\n| `briefing` | `institutional`, `graphite`, `memo`, `minute` | `carbon`, `library`, `quorum` | 12 |\n| `field-notes` | `sage`, `cobalt-paper`, `grove`, `haar` | `ember`, `dusk`, `peat` | 15 |\n| `studio` | `parchment`, `cyanotype`, `sand`, `paper-ink` | `basalt`, `darkroom` | 11 |\n| `atlas` | `grove`, `sand`, `tide`, `atlas` | `dusk`, `basalt` | 8 |\n| `signal` | `ultraviolet`, `vermilion`, `hi-vis` | `ember`, `flare`, `riptide` | 7 |\n| `organic` | `sage`, `mint`, `canopy`, `quarry` | `peat`, `understory` | 10 |\n| `bold` | `cobalt-cream`, `vermilion-paper`, `acid-ink`, `violet-milk` | `riptide`, `nettle`, `velvet` | 11 |\n| `desk` | `graphite`, `pewter` | `carbon`, `bluechip`, `meridian` | 8 |\n| `guideline` | `ledger`, `newsprint`, `clay`, `bond` | `shale` | 10 |\n\nName one with `\"palette\": \"graphite\"` and leave `theme` out. Pick by the subject's mood, not by habit; palette is one of the visual choices that distinguishes decks built from the same template. Say which you chose.\n\nUse `theme` only to apply a brand colour on top: `\"palette\": \"signal\"` with\n`\"theme\": {\"accent\": \"#D4623A\"}` keeps the palette and replaces one value.\n\nSeventeen palettes declare a fifth `spot` colour: one rare signal for a mark that\nhas to interrupt rather than harmonise, used by the `atlas_field` treatment and\nby directional marks. The other fifty-nine leave it unset and those marks fall\nback to the accent. Do not add a `spot` to a palette that has none, since a spot every\npalette carries is not a spot.\n\n### Choose a treatment when the composition needs a different voice\n\nThe template fixes the content geometry; `treatment` fixes the recurring\nbackground and chrome. Omit it, or set `\"treatment\": \"auto\"`, for a stable\nautomatic choice. Name one when the visual direction matters:\n\n```bash\ndeckbuild treatments dossier\ndeckbuild treatments briefing\n```\n\n```json\n{ \"template\": \"dossier\", \"palette\": \"cobalt-paper\", \"treatment\": \"archive_spine\" }\n```\n\nTreatments are template-specific by design. `dossier` offers `archive_spine`,\n`folio_frame`, and `paper_wash`; `briefing` offers `memo_split`, `status_rail`,\nand `decision_bar`; `bold` offers `edge_band`, `base_bar`, and `corner_rules`.\nA treatment from another template is rejected instead of quietly making two\ntemplates converge.\n\nThe controllable visual axes are: `template` for structure, `typography` for a\ncurated font system, `treatment` for recurring composition, `palette` for color,\n`theme` for exact brand overrides, and image `placement` plus cadence for visual\nemphasis.\n\nFor `bold`, read [`references/bold.md`](references/bold.md) before writing. It\ndefines the pacing, image direction, title register, and cases where bold is the\nwrong choice.\n\n**Typography.** Prefer a named `typography` system over manual font names. Run\n`deckbuild typography`, then read [`references/typography.md`](references/typography.md).\nIt defines the sans/serif/display roles, curated pairings, and misuse warnings.\nEvery named system uses bundled OFL faces that PowerPoint embeds. Exact\n`theme.heading` or `theme.body` values remain available for a real brand font;\nthey override the preset and are checked against the same role rules.\n\n### Layouts — choose by the shape of the content\n\nDecide what a slide has to do, then take the layout that does it. Reaching for\n`bullets` every time is what makes a deck look generated; a deck that varies\nbecause its content varies is the thing to aim for. Every layout works in every\ntemplate.\n\n| `layout` | Reach for it when | Needs |\n| ----------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------- |\n| `title` | Opening. The title states the thesis, not the topic. | `title` |\n| `contents` | The deck is long enough that the audience wants a map. Six items at most. | `items` |\n| `section` | The argument turns. One every four to six slides, numbered in `eyebrow`. | `title` |\n| `statement` | One sentence is the whole point of the slide and deserves the room. | `title` |\n| `bullets` | Genuinely a list of peers with nothing to compare across. Rarer than you think. | `title`, `bullets` |\n| `numbered` | Order or sequence matters: steps, ranked options, things tried in turn. | `title`, `items` |\n| `columns` | Two or three things held against each other: before/after, us/them, risk/reward. | `title`, `items` |\n| `metrics` | Two to four numbers carry the point. One number alone is a `statement`. | `items[].value` |\n| `table` | Two dimensions — things down the side, attributes across the top. | `columns`, `rows` |\n| `quote` | Someone else's words are better evidence than your summary. | `quote` |\n| `image` | A picture argues better than a sentence. Never decoration. | `title`, `image` |\n| `triptych` | A full-height image separates observations from a short narrative. | `title`, `image`, `items` |\n| `gallery` | Two to four images are peers, or a stacked pair carries the page. | `items[].image` |\n| `team` | Portraits, names, and roles should read as one visual roster. | `items[].image` |\n| `timeline` | Milestones need a visible temporal line rather than numbered prose. | `items` |\n| `chart` | A rendered chart is evidence beside editable interpretation. | `title`, `image` |\n| `bars` | A set of magnitudes should be compared by length rather than read as numerals. | `title`, `items[].amount` |\n| `closing` | The ask: a decision, an owner, a date. | `title` |\n\nFour further recipes are compositions taken from professionally produced decks.\nRead [`references/compositions.md`](references/compositions.md) before using one.\n\n| `layout` | Reach for it when | Needs |\n| ------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------- |\n| `editorial-collage` | Two or three frames argue with each other rather than illustrating one claim. | `title`, `items[].image` |\n| `portrait-strip` | Two or three tall crops are peers and each needs its own caption. | `title`, `items[].image` |\n| `panorama-sidebar` | One wide frame carries the scale and a rail explains it. | `title`, `image`, `items` |\n| `hero-proof` | One claim over a darkened image, with numbered proof beneath it. | `title`, `image`, `items` |\n\nTwo more document a design system rather than argue a case, and are what\n`guideline` exists for.\n\n| `layout` | Reach for it when | Needs |\n| ---------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------ |\n| `swatches` | The palette is the content: each colour named, described, and printed. | `title`, `items[].value` |\n| `specimen` | The typography is the content, set in the deck's own faces at its own sizes. | `title` |\n\nReading the same content three ways, so the choice is deliberate:\n\n- \"June 61%, July 48%, August 46%\" across three cohorts and three days is a\n `table` — two dimensions.\n- \"Day-7 retention 61% → 48%, alongside NRR and churn\" is `metrics` — several\n numbers, each with its comparison in the item's `body`.\n- \"Retention is the constraint\" is a `statement`, with the evidence on the slide\n after it.\n\nOptional fields: `subtitle` and `eyebrow` on a `title`; `eyebrow` as the section\nnumber; `body` as a lead line under a `section`, `statement`, or `closing`;\n`items` as a fact row on `title` and `closing`; `attribution` on a `quote`;\n`placement` on an `image`. Every slide takes `notes`.\n\n`items` entries are `{heading, body, value, image, image_prompt, amount}`, or a bare string meaning `body`.\n`placement` is `left`, `right` (half-bleed column, text alongside), `full`, or\n`bleed` (behind the text, which is darkened for contrast).\n\nOn a `full` or `bleed` image, `scrim` decides how the copy is made readable.\n`full`, the default, darkens the whole canvas and is right when the claim is the\nsubject. `card` lays a near-solid panel in the ground colour under the copy alone\nand leaves the rest of the photograph untouched, which is what a brand page does.\nThe five templates that compose their own full-bleed image — `bold`, `dossier`,\n`field-notes`, `organic`, `signal` — take `full` only, and asking for a card there\nis refused rather than dropped.\n\n`bars` takes an `amount` on every item: a non-negative number in whatever unit\nthe slide is about, which sets each bar's length against the largest in the set.\nPut the formatted figure in `value` and the label in `heading`, and the numerals\nstay editable text rather than becoming part of a picture.\n\n`swatches` takes a colour in each item's `value`, with `heading` as its name and\n`body` as the rule for using it. The hex is printed inside the chip.\n\nAny slide may also carry `cutout` (a transparent foreground figure, on `studio`,\n`bold`, and `feature`), `motif` (`studio` only), and `directional_mark`. Their\nanchors and knobs are in\n[`references/compositions.md`](references/compositions.md). A knob set without\nthe asset it configures is rejected rather than ignored.\n\nIn `briefing`, `numbered` becomes a ruled status or action sequence: put the\nshort marker, owner, or date in `heading` and the update in `body`. Its `title`\nand `closing` item rows are the place for decision, owner, date, and status.\n\n### Vary the deck\n\nA deck where every slide is the same shape is a worse deck, whatever the content.\nTwo rules that fall out of that:\n\n- **No layout three times in a row.** If three consecutive slides want `columns`,\n one of them is really a `table` or a `statement`.\n- **A `section` earns its place** by changing the subject, not by punctuating a\n list.\n\n### Facts\n\nSearch before writing any number, price, date, or name you would otherwise be\nrecalling. A deck of plausible-looking figures nobody checked is worse than one\nwith fewer figures, because it will be presented as if it were true.\n\nPut the source in the slide's `notes` — where the number came from and as of\nwhen. A board asking \"says who?\" is the normal case, not the awkward one.\n\nWhere a figure cannot be verified, say so on the slide rather than dropping it\nsilently: \"internal estimate\" and \"as reported, Q2\" are both fine; an unsourced\nnumber that looks sourced is not.\n\n## Step 4 — Content discipline\n\nThis is what separates a deck someone presents from a wall of text with a title.\nApply it while writing the spec, not as a cleanup pass.\n\n**Titles come in two registers and a deck commits to one.** The template picks\nit; writing in between is what produces a claim with the substance squeezed out.\n\nAn **action** title _is_ the finding, stated in full — 6 to 16 words, 4 to 10 for\na divider:\n\n> `\"Cash is still burned turning the backlog into deliveries\"`\n> `\"Consensus has already priced in most of the recovery\"`\n\nNot `\"Cash flow\"`, which says nothing, and not `\"The moat is real and\nstructural\"`, which asserts something without saying what it is. Published\nconsulting headlines run this long for a reason: the qualifier is the finding.\n\nA **label** title names the moment and lets the slide argue — 1 to 5 words, 1 to\n4 for a divider:\n\n> `\"The problem\"` `\"What changed\"` `\"Kurama in the rain\"`\n\nHere the picture or the single number carries the weight, and a full sentence\nacross the top fights it.\n\n**No commas in a title.** A comma is where a second thought gets appended to the\nfirst, and it leaves two half-claims where one whole one would land harder:\n`\"Right on Mathilda, no commute at all\"` is really `\"The commute is a five-minute\nwalk\"`. Rewrite until the point survives as one clause — if it will not, the\ntitle is carrying two ideas and the second one belongs on its own slide, or in\nthe body. Only a `quote` keeps its commas, being someone else's words.\n\nThe same goes for a semicolon or a dash joining two independent clauses: a\nsentence wearing a heading's clothes. Headings take no full stop; a `statement`\nslide is the exception, because it _is_ a sentence.\n\nTitle budgets `deckbuild outline` reports:\n\n| Register | Slide title | Section divider |\n| -------- | ----------- | --------------- |\n| `action` | 6–16 words | 4–10 words |\n| `label` | 1–5 words | 1–4 words |\n\nAnd for the copy underneath: a bullet is at most 14 words, an item body or a\nlead line at most 24. Past that it is prose, and prose belongs in `notes`.\n\n**One idea per slide.** Two ideas means two slides. Slides are free.\n\n**Numbers get context.** `NRR fell to 96%` invites \"from what, against what\nplan?\". Give the comparison in the same line: `NRR 112% → 96%, plan 105%`. A\ncount without a denominator is not evidence.\n\n**Use `metrics` for headline numbers and `table` for two dimensions.** A bulleted\nlist of \"June: 61%, July: 48%\" is a table someone forgot to draw.\n\n**Prose belongs in `notes`.** If a slide needs a paragraph to make sense, the\nparagraph is a speaker note and the slide keeps the assertion. Write notes for\nevery slide that makes a claim — they cost the reader nothing and let someone\nelse present the deck.\n\n**A `section` every four to six content slides.** It gives the audience a place\nto breathe and the presenter a place to check the room. A deck under eight\nslides may skip dividers when its arc is already obvious; do not spend one-sixth\nof a six-slide briefing announcing that it has reached the middle.\n\n**End on the ask.** The `closing` slide is what should happen next: a decision,\nan owner, a date. Not \"Thank you\", not \"Questions?\".\n\nWhen the user hands over source material, read it first, decide the argument,\nthen write slides that make that argument. Do not walk the source top to bottom\nturning each section into a slide.\n\n## Step 5 — Images\n\n`generate_image` writes a `.png` into the working directory and returns its path.\nReference it by filename in the spec:\n\n```json\n{\n \"layout\": \"image\",\n \"title\": \"Sign-in is where automation dies\",\n \"body\": \"Every useful task sits behind a login.\",\n \"image\": \"hero.png\",\n \"placement\": \"right\"\n}\n```\n\n**Ask the deck what shape each region is; do not guess.** Write the spec with\nevery `image` and `image_prompt` filled in first, then:\n\n```bash\ndeckbuild images deck.json # add --json for the same plan machine-readable\n```\n\nIt lists every picture the layouts place, the orientation and pixel size of the\nregion each one fills, and the prompt already recorded for it:\n\n```\nMAKE hero.png landscape 1920x1080 slide 2\n A harbour at first light, documentary photograph, muted\nMAKE frame-1.png portrait 904x1920 slide 6\n A weathered lighthouse tower against low cloud\n```\n\nGenerate exactly that list at those sizes, then build. deckbuild crops to fill\nwithout distorting, so an image the wrong shape loses the difference off its\nsides, taken from the centre where the subject usually is. 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Never reuse the same\nimage on two slides.\n\n| Template | Imagery |\n| --------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |\n| `feature`, `atlas`, `studio` | Image-led. Most slides carry one; a run of three type-only slides means the deck is under-illustrated. |\n| `bold`, `field-notes`, `organic` | One decisive anchor about every third slide, alternating with type-led pages. |\n| `pitch`, `signal`, `desk`, `dossier` | One or two anchors in the whole deck. The numerals and fields carry the rest. |\n| `editorial`, `board`, `briefing`, `guideline` | Only where the picture is evidence. These decks are complete with none. |\n\nReach that count by using the layouts that place several frames at once —\n`gallery`, `triptych`, `portrait-strip`, `editorial-collage` — rather than by\nrepeating single `image` slides.\n\n- `dossier`: prefer one verified portrait or supplied photo. Never generate a\n likeness of a real colleague; use a generated portrait only for a fictional\n example, and use an object, place, or abstract cutout when no real photo exists.\n- `briefing`: add an image only when it is evidence or meeting context. Its rules,\n owner fields, dates, and status rows already do the visual work.\n- `field-notes`: bias toward one or two isolated objects, cutouts, or candid\n photographs with deliberate negative space. A transparent or paper-coloured\n background makes the offset frame feel intentional.\n- `feature`: images carry the thread; vary portraits, wide scenes, and details.\n- `bold`: use one decisive documentary or rendered anchor about every three\n slides; alternate it with quiet type-led pages instead of decorating every page.\n\nGenerated visuals can also be diagrammatic or rendered as SVG when a real image\nwould imply false evidence. Do not generate fake screenshots, logos, documents,\nor photographs of real events. Prompt the subject's side and crop explicitly,\nand keep `image_prompt` on every slide that names an image.\n\nA missing file is a warning, not a failure: the deck still builds with the\nregion reserved, so a generation that fails does not block delivery. 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