$npx -y skills add JimLiu/baoyu-skills --skill baoyu-slide-deckGenerates professional slide deck images from content. Creates outlines with style instructions, then generates individual slide images. Use when user asks to "create slides", "make a presentation", "generate deck", "slide deck", or "PPT".
| 1 | # Slide Deck Generator |
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| 3 | Transform content into professional slide deck images. The deck is designed for **reading and sharing** (self-explanatory slides, logical scroll flow, social-media-friendly) rather than live presentation — that assumption drives every layout and density decision below. |
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| 5 | ## User Input Tools |
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| 7 | When this skill prompts the user, follow this tool-selection rule (priority order): |
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| 9 | 1. **Prefer built-in user-input tools** exposed by the current agent runtime — e.g., `AskUserQuestion`, `request_user_input`, `clarify`, `ask_user`, or any equivalent. |
| 10 | 2. **Fallback**: if no such tool exists, emit a numbered plain-text message and ask the user to reply with the chosen number/answer for each question. |
| 11 | 3. **Batching**: if the tool supports multiple questions per call, combine all applicable questions into a single call; if only single-question, ask them one at a time in priority order. |
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| 13 | Concrete `AskUserQuestion` references below are examples — substitute the local equivalent in other runtimes. |
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| 15 | ## Image Generation Tools |
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| 17 | When this skill needs to render an image, resolve the backend in this order: |
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| 19 | 1. **Current-request override** — if the user names a specific backend in the current message, use it. |
| 20 | 2. **Saved preference** — if `EXTEND.md` sets `preferred_image_backend` to a backend available right now, use it. |
| 21 | 3. **Auto-select** (when the preference is `auto`, unset, or the pinned backend isn't available): |
| 22 | - **Codex (`imagegen`)** — first, inspect your available-skills / tool inventory. If a skill named `imagegen` is listed, you are running inside Codex and MUST use it: invoke via the `Skill` tool with `skill: "imagegen"`, passing the saved prompt file's content (plus output path and aspect ratio per Codex `imagegen`'s own args). Codex `imagegen` is the official raster backend in that runtime and outranks any non-native skill (e.g., `baoyu-image-gen`) unless the user has explicitly pinned a different `preferred_image_backend`. |
| 23 | - **Codex via `codex exec` (`codex-imagegen`)** — if the current runtime exposes no native `imagegen` skill but the `codex` CLI is on `PATH` with an active `codex login`, route through `baoyu-image-gen --provider codex-cli` (preferred), or — if baoyu-image-gen is unavailable — invoke the bundled wrapper directly. Details, parameters, and the runtime-discovery procedure live in [references/codex-imagegen.md](references/codex-imagegen.md) — load that file only when this branch is selected. |
| 24 | - **Cursor (`GenerateImage`)** — if the runtime exposes a native `GenerateImage` tool, you are running inside Cursor and it outranks any non-native skill the same way Codex `imagegen` does. Two hard caveats: (a) it has no aspect-ratio parameter — state the target aspect ratio / dimensions explicitly in the prompt text passed as `description`; (b) it does not accept an output directory — it saves to a tool-managed location, so after generation copy/move the file to the skill's expected output path (e.g., `outputs/.../NN-xxx.png`). Reference images go in `reference_image_paths`. |
| 25 | - **Other runtime-native tools** — if the runtime exposes a different native image tool (e.g., Hermes `image_generate`), use it the same way. |
| 26 | - Otherwise, if exactly one non-native backend is installed (e.g., `baoyu-image-gen`), use it. |
| 27 | - Otherwise (multiple non-native backends with no runtime-native tool), ask the user once — batch with any other initial questions. |
| 28 | 4. **If none are available**, tell the user and ask how to proceed. |
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| 30 | **⛔ Never substitute SVG, HTML, canvas, or other code-based rendering for raster image generation.** Codex `imagegen`'s own description says it should be used "when the output should be a bitmap asset rather than repo-native code or vector." If you cannot resolve a raster backend via step 3, fall through to step 4 and ask the user — do **not** silently emit SVG, write inline `<svg>` markup, or produce HTML/CSS art as a substitute. This applies even if the article/section seems "diagram-like": the consumer skill calling this rule has already decided that a raster image is what it needs. |
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| 32 | **⛔ Never repair rendered text by painting over a generated bitmap.** Do not use ImageMagick, Pillow, Canvas, SVG, HTML/CSS, OCR scripts, or any other programmatic overlay to cover, rewrite, erase, stroke, or replace slide titles, bullets, or any other text inside an already generated slide image. If text is wrong or unclear, regenerate from a corrected prompt, simplify the slide's on-image text, or ask the user which imperfect candidate to keep. |