# Create Deck > Create Deck is an Agent Skill for documents published in the BuilderIO/agent-native repository on GitHub: a SKILL.md instruction file an AI agent can load to do this task. How to create a new deck with slides from scratch. Read this before creating any deck. Contains exact HTML templates for every slide layout — no codebase exploration needed. - Skill name: `create-deck` - Category: [Documents](https://www.openparable.com/skill/documents/1) - Source: https://github.com/BuilderIO/agent-native/blob/HEAD/templates/slides/.agents/skills/create-deck/SKILL.md - Repository: BuilderIO/agent-native (3,704 GitHub stars when collected) ## SKILL.md # Creating a Deck **Do not explore the codebase.** Everything you need is here. ## Workflow 1. Read the `creative-context` skill and retrieve factual evidence separately from presentation structure. Respect `contextMode: "off"`. 2. Plan the slides (title, section dividers, content slides). 3. Call `create-deck --title "..." --slides '[]'` to create an empty deck. 4. Navigate to the new deck. 5. Call `add-slide` once per slide in slide order, waiting for each result. Follow the creative-context reuse ladder before inventing a slide language: reuse an approved native template unchanged, compose approved pieces, lightly adapt a real approved example, generate from narrowly retrieved references, then go net-new only when the relevant corpus is empty. Retrieval is a separate step from generation. Persist the immutable `contextPackId` and concise reuse labels with the deck's generation provenance; never infer provenance later from rendered slide HTML. When creative context is available, pass the pre-generation search result's `contextPackId` to `create-deck`, pass deck-wide `reuseLabels`, and add `creativeContextReuseLabels` to each slide that reused a specific item/version. Do not omit these fields and let the final write action search after the HTML has already been authored; that would fabricate influence. With an empty library, omit them. With Library mode Off, omit them and create normally. before adding the next slide Do not create multiple slides in parallel for the same deck. Do not spawn sub-agents to write into the same deck at the same time. Sub-agents may research or draft slide copy, but one writer should call `add-slide` sequentially so the editor stays stable and the user can watch progress. If the user provides a Google Docs URL as source material, call `import-google-doc --url ` first and build from the returned text. If the action cannot read a private document, the user can connect Google Docs and choose the file through the picker, or share the Doc with the configured service account. Relay the action's exact access instructions instead of generating from the URL alone. ```bash pnpm action create-deck --title "My Deck" --slides '[]' ``` Then navigate: ```bash pnpm action navigate --deckId= ``` Then add slides one by one: ```bash pnpm action add-slide --deckId= --layout title --content "..." pnpm action add-slide --deckId= --layout content --content "..." ``` ## Slide Wrapper Every slide's `content` must use this exact outer div: ```html

``` Background is pure black (`bg-[#000000]`) — set by the renderer, not the slide HTML. ## Ready-to-Use Templates Copy and fill in the bracketed values. Use `\` to escape quotes inside the JSON string. --- ### Title Slide ```html

[LABEL OR DATE]

[TITLE]

[SUBTITLE OR PRESENTER]

``` --- ### Section Divider ```html

[SECTION NUMBER, e.g. 01]

[SECTION TITLE]

``` --- ### Content Slide (bullets) ```html

[SECTION LABEL]

[SLIDE HEADING]

● [BULLET TEXT]

``` --- ### Two-Column Slide (text left, image/visual right) ```html

[SECTION LABEL]

[HEADING]

● [BULLET]

[IMAGE DESCRIPTION]

``` --- ### Statement / Quote Slide ```html

“[STATEMENT OR QUOTE]”

[SOURCE OR ATTRIBUTION]

``` --- ### Metrics / Stats Slide ```html

[SECTION LABEL]

[HEADING]

[METRIC]

[LABEL]

[METRIC]

[LABEL]

[METRIC]

[LABEL]

``` --- ### Closing / CTA Slide ```html

[LABEL, e.g. GET STARTED]

[CLOSING STATEMENT]

[CONTACT OR NEXT STEP]

``` ## Image Placeholders When a slide needs a visual, use this div — it renders as a styled placeholder and can later be replaced with a generated image: ```html

[Description of what image should show]

``` ## Bold Terms with Description For definition-style bullets: ```html

● [Term] — [description]

``` ## Bulk Replacement Only Use a non-empty `create-deck --slides '[...]'` payload only for imports or an intentional atomic bulk replacement. For normal AI-generated decks, use the empty-deck plus sequential `add-slide` workflow above. A bulk payload looks like this: ```bash pnpm action create-deck --title "Product Vision 2025" --slides '[ { "id": "slide-1", "layout": "title", "content": "

ANNUAL STRATEGY

Product Vision 2025

Engineering Leadership — Q1 2025

" }, { "id": "slide-2", "layout": "content", "content": "

OVERVIEW

Three Core Priorities

●Ship the agent platform by March

●Grow to 10k active teams

●Reduce time-to-value to under 5 minutes

" } ]' ``` After creating, navigate to the deck: ```bash pnpm action navigate --deckId= ``` --- Source: https://www.openparable.com/skill/documents/create-deck (OpenParable). Cite the canonical URL above.