Business Presentations

Use this skill for decision-oriented decks. File creation, object editing, export, and rendering should be handled by the official Presentation/Slides capability when available.

Boundary

• Use for executive summaries, company updates, product proposals, strategy, operations, market, client, and pitch decks.
• Do not use for technical research talks unless the user explicitly frames the audience as business or executive.
• Do not trigger for small edits to an existing PPTX/Google Slides file.
• Use business presentation themes/templates for deck-wide color. Do not use journal-inspired scientific palettes from palette/ as business deck themes.
• Use ../../shared/deck-plan.schema.json as the default intermediate representation.
• For Chinese business, executive, product, strategy, or decision slide text, route the final wording pass through writing-fidelity plus chinese-prose when those writing skills are installed. Keep factual numbers, claims, and source labels stable while making the Chinese read naturally.

Narrative

Business decks should answer:

answer/request -> problem or opportunity -> evidence and impact -> plan -> resources and risks -> decision and next step

Workflow

0. Before any non-trivial presentation work, read ../../shared/presentation-end-to-end-pre-execution-runbook.md in full, then read ../../shared/pre-execution-cumulative-acceptance-contract.md and derive task classification, Critic requirement, history scope, freeze state, locks, and round allowlist.
1. Read and apply ../../shared/authoring-production-workflow.md for every non-trivial deck. ChatGPT/Planner owns audience, narrative, page jobs, visible copy, layout semantics and locks; Codex owns production and autonomous Producer/Reviewer repair loops.
2. Clarify the decision, audience, time limit, and required output format.
3. Produce deck-plan.yaml for non-trivial decks and keep each slide tied to one decision-relevant message.
4. For materially new visual systems, prove shared components and a small representative golden-page pack before building the complete deck. The user must not receive the first visual prototype as a full deck.
5. Use the CUHK default visual system only when no company, client, course, or event template is specified.
6. Apply the shared writing handoff before final deck creation: Chinese slide text gets writing-fidelity plus chinese-prose; English scientific slide prose can use scientific-prose when the deck includes research evidence.
7. For non-trivial production or revision, freeze an authority bundle and explicit round allowlist, then apply ../../shared/anti-shortcut-production-contract.md. The executor must produce a proof-carrying patch manifest and may not turn a local repair into a full-deck rewrite, add unapproved visible prose, delete required content to solve layout pressure, or alter validation rules.
8. Route editable deck creation to official Presentation/Slides and keep visual QA evidence. Apply ../../shared/independent-review-contract.md: the Codex Parent Controller must coordinate fresh Producer and fresh read-only Reviewer contexts inside one Goal; the user must not relay intermediate completion blocks or act as first QA.
9. Existing-deck revisions must converge monotonically: open issues shrink, accepted/locked slides and components grow, and unrelated changes remain zero. A recurrence of an accepted issue triggers root-cause repair of the shared primitive, authority, or detector rather than another broad candidate.
10. Final delivery still requires one complete whole-deck regression even when intermediate user review is delta-only.

References

• ../../shared/presentation-end-to-end-pre-execution-runbook.md
• ../../shared/pre-execution-cumulative-acceptance-contract.md
• ../../shared/authoring-production-workflow.md
• ../../shared/deck-plan.schema.json
• ../../shared/template-routing.md
• ../../shared/ppt-skill-routing.md
• ../../shared/source-fidelity.md
• ../../shared/visual-qa.md
• ../../shared/anti-shortcut-production-contract.md
• ../../shared/independent-review-contract.md