slide-content

name	slide-content
description	Guidance for writing and tightening slide copy in this presentation project. Use when creating, rewriting, condensing, or polishing slide text in slides.md, especially when deciding how much text to keep on a slide and what to emphasize.

Slide Content

Use this skill when the task is primarily about slide wording rather than layout, styling, or deployment.

When copy changes materially affect slide density or hierarchy, consult slide-design-system so wording and layout decisions stay aligned.

Goals

• Make slides fast to scan
• Keep the message obvious within a few seconds
• Turn dense ideas into presentation-first copy

Default approach

1. Start with the one point the audience should remember from the slide.
2. Reduce copy until only the essentials remain.
3. Match the amount of copy to the slide pattern; if the slide needs too much explanation, split the idea instead of compressing it.
4. Prefer short sentences, fragments, or noun phrases over full prose.
5. Use blue emphasis for key essentials, but cap it at 2 or 3 items per slide.
6. Keep the slide readable at presentation distance.

Writing guidelines

• Use short sentences or phrases. Complete sentences are optional.
• Keep each slide focused on one idea or one comparison.
• Prefer 3 to 5 concise bullets over dense lists.
• Avoid paragraphs unless the user explicitly wants speaker-note-style copy.
• Lead with the conclusion, not the setup.
• Make titles do real work. Prefer a claim or takeaway over a vague topic label.
• Keep wording concrete. Favor specific nouns, numbers, and outcomes over abstract language.
• If a detail is not needed for the audience to follow the story, cut it.

Emphasis guidelines

• Use blue emphasis only for the key essentials the audience should notice first.
• Limit blue emphasis to at most 2 or 3 items on a slide.
• Emphasize the most important word or short phrase, not whole bullet sentences.
• Do not use emphasis on every bullet; if everything is highlighted, nothing stands out.

Reveal-specific guidance

• Write for slides, not documents.
• Assume the presenter will add detail verbally.
• When a slide starts feeling crowded, split it into two slides instead of shrinking the message into smaller text.
• If a slide mixes strategy, technical detail, and examples, separate those into clearer beats.
• Let adjacent slides carry different rhetorical jobs: claim, proof, example, contrast, or CTA.

Tone

• Direct
• Crisp
• Technical but plain-language
• Confident without hype

Boundaries

• Do not change the visual theme here; use reveal-deck for styling or structural deck work.
• If copy edits require a different visual pattern, hand off to reveal-deck with slide-design-system as the design reference.
• Keep this skill focused on wording, emphasis, and slide-level clarity rather than presentation-specific subject matter.