curate-slide-layouts

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curate-slide-layouts

description

Label and prune the PRESENTATION / SLIDE-DECK master's slide layouts in assets/slides/assets.manifest.json. Slides-only. Use when the slide master ships more layouts than are catalogued (today 65 layouts, only 4 labelled) — enumerate them, label each by purpose, mark which create-presentation may use, and prune unused layouts to shrink the master. Contributor-only; repo-local. NOT for building a deck (that's create-presentation), and NOT for web/marketing/imagery.

Curate the slide-deck master layout map

Slides only. "Layouts" here = the slide layouts inside the kuat-studio presentation master (assets/slides/ee-master-2026.pptx). This is not about web page layouts.

The studio master ships 65 layouts; only four are labelled in assets.manifest.json (title, section, content, blank). create-presentation can only pick from labelled layouts, so the rest are invisible — and unused layouts bloat the master. This skill turns the raw layout set into a curated, labelled map.

Note on this environment: there is no slide renderer here (4S confirmed no LibreOffice/soffice), so the visual judgement (what a layout looks like, whether it's redundant) is a contributor step done with a real PowerPoint/Slides client. The mechanical half — enumerate layouts + their placeholder structure — is scripted below.

Step 1 — Enumerate the layouts (mechanical)

python3 skills/scripts/inspect-layouts.py            # human table: index, name, placeholders
python3 skills/scripts/inspect-layouts.py --json     # JSON seed for the manifest

Each row gives the index (the python-pptx slide_layouts index — the exact value the manifest records), the layout name, and its placeholders (idx:name(type)). The placeholder type (TITLE / BODY / SLIDE_NUMBER / PICTURE …) and the indices are what you need to wire a layout into the manifest. (Needs python-pptx: pip install python-pptx.)

Step 2 — Label each layout by purpose (visual)

Open the master in PowerPoint/Slides and, for each layout, record in the manifest's layouts map:

• a key (title, section, content, two-column, quote, stat, image-full, closing, …),
• the index + name from Step 1,
• the placeholder indices create-presentation fills (title, subtitle, body, …),
• a one-line purpose so the build skill picks the right one.

Keep the existing verified four (title:0, section:4, content:39, blank:40) unless prep changed indices. Label the page-number badge behaviour where relevant (badge present on body layouts, absent on title/section/full-bleed).

Step 3 — Prune the unused (visual + mechanical)

• Decide which layouts are genuinely used by the EE deck patterns (slides/patterns). Redundant/never-used layouts are pruning candidates.
• Pruning shrinks the master toward the verifier's ≤ 30 MB guard. If you remove layouts, re-run prep-slides-master (its orphan-media prune drops media only the removed layouts referenced) and re-enumerate to confirm indices.
• Don't prune a layout create-presentation references without updating the manifest + the skill.

Step 4 — Update the manifest + verify

• Replace the layouts._note placeholder with the curated map; bump assets.manifest.json notes.
• Confirm every labelled index still resolves (re-run Step 1).
• Rebuild + verify:

  npm run build:plugins && npm run verify:plugins   # asset manifest resolves; master ≤ 30 MB
  

Related

• Part of the contribution model — this is the Light · slide-asset path (proposing a slide asset).
• Master prep: prep-slides-master · brand assets: add-brand-asset
• Consumer: create-presentation
• Helper: skills/scripts/inspect-layouts.py · manifest: assets/slides/assets.manifest.json