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Keynote Create — Design skill for Claude Code

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Claude Code skill: turn source material into a styled presentation deck — image-led Keynote or Minto/McKinsey Boardroom, rendered to HTML + PDF via swappable style packs.

How to install Keynote Create

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open nraford7/keynote-create and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Keynote Create does

Claude Code skill: turn source material into a styled presentation deck — image-led Keynote or Minto/McKinsey Boardroom, rendered to HTML + PDF via swappable style packs.

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README

keynote-create

A Claude Code skill that turns raw source material — research notes, a brain-dump, an essay, a strategy memo — into a presentation deck, then renders it to an HTML deck and a PDF.

Two modes

Keynote — image-led. ~80% full-bleed photography with a hard-edged caption box (top-left) plus a one-line subcaption; titles are fragments, one-word beats, questions, or coined terms. For talks, pitches, TED-style. Hands each slide to the art-direct skill for image briefs. Derived from a slide-by-slide study of real image-led keynote decks.
Boardroom — text-led. Every title a complete Minto/McKinsey action-title sentence, rendered in the default house style (a serif + grotesk pairing, a restrained accent). The skill's original behaviour.

**Mode and spine are independent.** The *spine* (narrative structure) is picked separately from a menu of seven: Minto/pyramid plus six keynote-native shapes (emotional arc, reveal/misdirection, framework-build, forecast-cascade, teaching/method, scenario-parallel). Minto is the Boardroom default and stays on the menu in either mode.

Markdown is the structural deliverable; HTML + PDF are the presentation deliverables. The skill does **not** generate `.pptx`.

Repository layout

Path	Purpose
`SKILL.md`	The skill definition (frontmatter + workflow).
`references/title-craft.md`	Title-craft rules, failure modes, and the Keynote fragment register.
`references/keynote-devices.md`	The 16-device Keynote palette (affordance triggers + anti-pastiche rules) and the six spines.
`references/layout-catalog.md`	The generic Boardroom layouts plus the Keynote layout family.
`scripts/keynote-render.mjs`	Node renderer: markdown → self-contained HTML → 1920×1080 PDF via headless Chrome, fonts base64-embedded. Handles both modes; consumes a style pack.
`scripts/house-style.mjs`	House-style registry (register/resolve a saved house pack). Imported by the renderer.
`packs/neu