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Regenerate the gcx marketing bento-box slide (slide.html) with verified commands from the current codebase. Builds a fresh binary and reflects against the actual command tree. Use when the user says "regenerate slide", "update slide", "generate slide", or "/generate-slide".

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Generate gcx Marketing Slide

Regenerate docs/bento_marketing_slide.html — a 1440x900 "bento box" marketing slide — so that every command shown is verified against the live binary and all stats are accurate.

Prerequisites

  • Go toolchain available
  • docs/bento_marketing_slide.html must exist

Workflow

Stage 1: Build & Reflect

Build a fresh gcx binary and extract the full command catalog and stats.

# 1. Build
go build -buildvcs=false -o bin/gcx ./cmd/gcx/

# 2. Extract the full flat command catalog (commands + resource_types)
./bin/gcx commands --flat -o json > /tmp/gcx-catalog.json

# 3. Extract counts from the catalog
python3 -c "
import json, sys
d = json.load(open('/tmp/gcx-catalog.json'))
cmds = d.get('commands', [])
rt = d.get('resource_types', [])
leaves = [c for c in cmds if c.get('token_cost')]
print(f'Total commands: {len(cmds)}')
print(f'Leaf commands (with token_cost): {len(leaves)}')
print(f'Resource types: {len(rt)}')
"

# 4. Get provider count
./bin/gcx providers list -o json | python3 -c "
import json, sys
d = json.load(sys.stdin)
print(f'Providers: {len(d)}')
for p in d: print(f'  - {p[\"name\"]}')
"

# 5. Get the human-readable command tree (for selecting showcase commands)
./bin/gcx help-tree --depth 3 -o text

Stage 2: Verify Card Commands

For each card topic, extract the relevant subtree from the binary and confirm every command shown on the slide actually exists.

# Per-card verification — run one per card topic:
./bin/gcx help-tree kg --depth 3 -o text           # Card 1: Knowledge Graph
./bin/gcx help-tree assistant --depth 3 -o text     # Card 2: Grafana Assistant
./bin/gcx help-tree fleet --depth 3 -o text         # Card 3: Fleet Management
./bin/gcx help-tree frontend --depth 3 -o text      # Card 4a: App O11y (frontend/faro)
./bin/gcx help-tree appo11y --depth 3 -o text       # Card 4b: App O11y (appo11y)
./bin/gcx help-tree incidents --depth 3 -o text     # Card 5a: Incident Response
./bin/gcx help-tree oncall --depth 3 -o text        # Card 5b: Incident Response (OnCall)
./bin/gcx help-tree synth --depth 3 -o text         # Card 5c: Incident Response (Synth)
./bin/gcx help-tree setup --depth 3 -o text         # Card 6: K8s Observability
./bin/gcx help-tree metrics adaptive --depth 3 -o text  # Card 7a: Adaptive Telemetry
./bin/gcx help-tree logs adaptive --depth 3 -o text     # Card 7b: Adaptive Telemetry
./bin/gcx help-tree traces adaptive --depth 3 -o text   # Card 7c: Adaptive Telemetry
./bin/gcx help-tree slo --depth 3 -o text           # Card 8: Agent-Ready Platform
./bin/gcx help-tree profiles --depth 3 -o text      # Card 8: Agent-Ready Platform

For each card, compare the commands currently in slide.html against the help-tree output. Flag any command that does not appear in the tree — it must be replaced.

Stage 3: Select Showcase Commands

Pick the best commands per card from the help-tree output. Selection criteria:

  • Exists in tree: The command must appear in the help-tree output. No invented commands.
  • Compelling: Prefer the most impressive capability per product (queries, inspections, create/apply operations over plain list commands)
  • Fits width: Narrow 3fr cards allow ~42 monospace characters. Wide 5fr and 1fr cards allow ~80 characters including inline comments.
  • Diverse verbs: Vary the actions across cards (list, get, create, query, inspect, status, apply, show) — avoid walls of list commands.
  • Flag accuracy: Only use flags that appear in the help-tree output for that command.

Stage 4: Update slide.html

Update docs/bento_marketing_slide.html preserving the exact layout and styling. Only modify HTML content inside card elements and the stats bar — never touch CSS or grid structure.

Layout

Header:  [gcx logo]  [tagline]                          [gcx auth login badge]

Row 1:   [ Card 1: Knowledge Graph (1fr)     ] [ Card 2: Grafana Assistant (1fr)   ]

Row 2:   [ Card 3: Fleet Mgmt (5fr)  ] [ Card 4: App O11y (3fr) ] [ Card 5: IRM (3fr) ]

Row 3:   [ Card 6: K8s O11y (5fr)    ] [ Card 7: Adaptive (3fr) ] [ Card 8: Agent (3fr)]

Stats:   [ 1 binary ] [ N+ resource types ] [ N+ commands ] [ N products ]

Card Topic Mapping

CardProvider(s) to queryBadge
1. Knowledge Graphkgbadge-green "Dependencies & Health"
2. Grafana Assistantassistant, authbadge-orange "AI-Powered"
3. Fleet Managementfleetbadge-green "Infrastructure"
4. App O11yfrontend (faro), appo11ybadge-green "End to End Observability"
5. Incident Responseincidents, oncall, synth, k6badge-filled-orange "IRM"
6. K8s Observabilitysetup instrumentation, fleetbadge-green "Kubernetes"
7. Adaptive Telemetrymetrics adaptive, logs adaptive, traces adaptivebadge-orange "Cost Control"
8. Agent-Ready Platformslo, profiles, resources, assistantbadge-filled-orange "A2A"

Styling Reference

  • Body: #0b0c0e, Cards: #14161a bg / #1e2127 border / 10px radius
  • Code blocks: #0e1014 bg / #2a2d33 left-border / JetBrains Mono 12.5px / line-height 1.7
  • Syntax highlighting spans:
    • .c-bin (#6E9FFF): the gcx binary name
    • .c-cmd (#c8ccd0): provider/group name
    • .c-kw (#c8ccd0, weight 500): action/subcommand
    • .c-flag (#6E9FFF): flags like --type
    • .c-val (#ff9830): values and strings
    • .c-cmt (#4a4f57): inline comments
  • Code line format: <div class="line"><span class="c-bin">gcx</span> <span class="c-cmd">provider</span> <span class="c-kw">action</span> ...</div>
  • Bullet lists use <ul class="feature-list"> with gradient > markers

Stats Bar

Update with exact counts from Stage 1:

  • 1 binary (always)
  • Leaf command count rounded down to nearest 50, with + suffix (e.g. 250+)
  • Resource type count rounded down to nearest 5, with + suffix (e.g. 60+)
  • Exact provider count from gcx providers list

Stage 5: Verify

  1. Open in a browser: open docs/bento_marketing_slide.html
  2. Check at 1440x900 viewport — no text overflow, no layout breaks
  3. Confirm narrow cards (3fr) don't have lines wrapping or clipping

Guard Rails

  • Build fresh before every regeneration — never rely on stale data
  • Every command on the slide must appear in gcx help-tree output
  • Every flag on the slide must appear in the help-tree output for that specific command
  • Keep inline comments short in narrow cards — omit if they'd cause overflow
  • Preserve CSS/styling — only modify HTML content
  • Do not change the grid structure, card count, or row ratios