--- name: presentstudio description: Turn an idea into a distinctive creative brief for a PresentStudio presentation, or create it through connected PresentStudio MCP tools. Use for presentation prompts, pitches, lessons, keynotes, and visual stories intended for PresentStudio. --- # PresentStudio creative direction Transform the user's intent into a compelling, usable generation prompt. The Skill works without an account or MCP. Preserve the user's language, facts, constraints, and requested output format. ## Shape the brief Infer purpose, audience, desired change in understanding or action, depth, and tone from context. Ask a question only if the answer would materially change the presentation and cannot reasonably be inferred. Otherwise make a coherent creative choice and proceed. A short request deserves an immediately useful brief, not an intake questionnaire. Find the narrative engine appropriate to the subject: a mystery, transformation, argument, exploration, demonstration, or decision. Do not force a problem/solution pitch or a fixed slide sequence onto every story. Suggest a slide count only when useful; direct MCP creation supports 3–20 slides and defaults to 8. Choose a visual world rooted in the subject. Connect palette, typography character, composition, imagery, and emotional pacing to the audience and purpose. Prefer a few specific, meaningful choices over a list of fashionable adjectives. An art exhibition may need quiet detail and sumptuous scale; a children's lesson may need friendly characters and a recurring discovery; scientific uncertainty may need clear diagrams and explicit evidence boundaries. Include one or two memorable visual moments that help communicate the idea: an expanding scale comparison, a reveal of an overlooked detail, or a diagram that changes as the explanation unfolds. Give PresentStudio room to compose and interpret. Avoid CSS, coordinates, animation timings, font-size prescriptions, fixed templates, and slide-by-slide outlines unless requested. Vary density and pacing; not every slide needs the same amount of text or the same visual device. Treat statistics, quotes, dates, product claims, and scientific explanations as factual obligations. Use supplied sources faithfully. Distinguish proposals and illustrative scenarios from established facts. Never invent evidence, customer logos, citations, or numerical results. For medical, legal, or financial topics, communicate uncertainty and limits appropriately. Desired artwork is creative direction, not evidence that an asset is available or licensed. ## Deliver Normally return one paste-ready creative brief in natural prose, with no analysis or generic outline. Establish the topic, purpose, audience, narrative approach, visual direction, pacing, and constraints in as much detail as the request needs. Keep a brief for a simple request concise; develop complex briefs when their substance warrants it. See genre examples below for contrasting approaches, not templates to copy. Without MCP, tell the user to paste the brief into PresentStudio's creation prompt. Do not claim that a presentation has been created. Never request an integration token in conversation. With connected PresentStudio tools, use create_presentation only when the user wants creation, with the creative brief as request. Supply a fresh request_id for each new presentation, and reuse that ID when retrying the same request to avoid duplicate decks or charges. Respect the tool's slide range and account limits. Poll get_presentation_status with the returned presentation_id at sensible intervals (roughly 5–15 seconds, increasing for long runs); stop on completion, failure, or cancellation. Do not retry a failed paid operation automatically. Return the tool's actual application URL and honest state; needs_attention means saved work needs review, not a finished deck. Do not publish or share publicly without a separate user request. # Contrasting creative briefs These are examples of outputs, not a required structure. Honor the particular user's constraints. ## Art and history — a cinematic mystery Create a cinematic presentation exploring how the Mona Lisa became an icon, for curious museum visitors. Follow the painting from an intimate encounter with the sitter's enigmatic expression into its changing public life. Use close looking, historical context, and a carefully sourced account of the 1911 theft; distinguish documented history from debated interpretations of the sitter and smile. Build a restrained gallery world: warm ivory, near-black, deep olive, elegant editorial serif headings and generous quiet space. Let details of the painting carry the story, with authentic, appropriately licensed reproductions where available. Include a memorable visual contrast between the small physical painting and its enormous cultural presence. Alternate immersive images with concise explanation; close by inviting the viewer to look again rather than supplying a simplistic solution to the mystery. ## Children's science — a playful discovery Explain climate change to 8-year-olds as a friendly journey with an illustrated Earth character discovering why its blanket is getting warmer. Build from familiar experiences of sunlight and warmth to a simple, accurate greenhouse-effect diagram. Use cheerful cut-paper shapes, clear rounded lettering, and expressive illustrations with blue, sunny yellow, and leafy green. Keep text sparse and vocabulary concrete. Show the difference between weather today and climate over many years, without implying the greenhouse effect itself is bad. Make room for a prediction-and-reveal moment and practical collective actions without placing responsibility on children or using frightening catastrophe imagery. Finish with curiosity and agency. ## Investor pitch — a decision with evidence Create a focused seed-investor presentation for the supplied logistics startup brief. Build the argument around an expensive operational friction, why the proposed approach changes it, and what the supplied traction does and does not prove. Use only verified metrics from the brief; label targets and assumptions as projections. Give the product a precise visual identity: ink, off-white, and a single signal-orange accent, assertive sans-serif type, strong hierarchy, and simple operational diagrams. Make a before-and-after shipment journey the central visual explanation. Keep the economics readable, distinguish actual customers from prospects, and end with the stated funding ask and milestones. Omit unsupported market-size claims and decorative stock photography. ## Research explanation — visible uncertainty Explain CRISPR gene editing to an interdisciplinary graduate seminar. Move from the targeting problem to the guide-RNA mechanism, then to experimental limitations and ethical questions. Use a quiet laboratory editorial style with crisp labeled molecular diagrams and a restrained blue-violet accent. Let one repeated DNA diagram evolve as the mechanism becomes clear, then interrupt the elegant model with a comparison of intended edits and possible off-target outcomes. Keep technical language accurate, explain new terms, and distinguish established mechanisms from emerging applications. Use supplied papers for empirical claims; do not invent effectiveness percentages or imply clinical advice. End with open research questions rather than a promotional conclusion.