dsh-slides

Slides for DeepSeek Harness

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Give the agent a make_slides tool and it writes a talk to one self-contained HTML file — opens in any browser, presents fullscreen, keeps your speaker notes off the screen, and prints to PDF with Ctrl+P. Ask for formats: ["html", "pptx"] and it writes an editable PowerPoint file alongside it, speaker notes included.

The file loads nothing at presentation time. No CDN, no webfont, no image host. A deck that needs the network is a deck that can fail in the room you are presenting in.

Install

dsh plugin --profile web add dsh-slides
dsh web

Then just ask: "turn these results into a 10-minute talk".

What the agent gets

One tool, make_slides, taking a deck as structured data rather than markdown the user has to convert:

Layout	Holds
title	Deck title, subtitle, presenter. Generated for you from the deck fields — do not write one
section	A divider between parts of the talk
bullets	A claim as the heading, points beneath it, optionally a figure alongside
image	A figure with a caption, filling the slide
quote	A pulled quote with an attribution

Omit layout and it is inferred from the fields you filled in.

Every slide takes notes — the speaker notes. They never appear on the slide; the presenter reveals them with S during the talk. This is the point of the tool: the claim goes on the slide, the talking goes in the notes, and the agent is told so in its guidance.

Bullets support **bold**, *italic* and `code`. Everything is escaped before formatting is applied, so content can never inject markup into the deck.

Formats

formats defaults to ["html"]. Add "pptx" when the deck has to be edited by a co-author or uploaded to a conference system:

	HTML	PPTX
Presents offline	Yes, nothing is fetched	Yes
Speaker notes	S during the talk	In PowerPoint's notes pane
Prints to PDF	Ctrl+P, one slide per page	Through PowerPoint
Editable by a co-author	Not really	Yes
Images	Embed as data: URIs to stay self-contained	data: URIs are embedded; URLs stay links

Both come from the same deck and the same inline-markup parse, so they cannot drift apart.

Presenting

Key
→ ← Space	Next / previous slide
S	Show and hide speaker notes
F	Fullscreen
Home End	First / last slide
Ctrl+P	Print — one slide per page, chrome hidden, straight to PDF

Clicking works too: the left third goes back, the rest goes forward. The URL carries the slide number, so a link can point at a specific slide.

Themes

Five finished looks rather than a knob per property. Pick one; do not assemble one.

Theme
plain	White ground, sans-serif, thin accent rules. The default; disappears behind the content
ink	Warm paper ground with a serif face. Reads like a printed paper; suits a seminar or a defense
midnight	Deep blue ground, light type. Holds up in a bright room where a white deck washes out
slate	Neutral greys, no colour accent. For decks whose figures carry all the colour
sunrise	Off-white ground with a warm accent. A lighter register for a talk meant to persuade

Font stacks name system faces only, for the same reason the deck loads nothing else.

Configuration

The bundle inserts one row (id: slides). Override it from your profile's cordis.patch.yml (a patch replaces the whole config, so restate every key you keep):

- id: slides
  config:
    outputDir: slides/       # where decks are written, relative to the workspace
    defaultTheme: plain      # plain | ink | midnight | slate | sunrise
    promptGuidance: true     # register the deck-writing guidance
    promptOrder: 150

Notes

• Decks are written through ctx.fs, so a sandboxing filesystem backend fences the write like any other tool. The tool is therefore registered only where a filesystem provider is composed — with none, neither the tool nor its guidance appears, instead of offering a call that always fails.
• ctx.fs exposes text writes only, and a sandboxing backend fences exactly those. So the pptx write asks for the path through the sanctioned writeText first: the backend applies its real policy and refuses with FS_SANDBOX_DENIED before any bytes exist, and only a path it allowed is then filled in. Resolving a path and writing to it directly would go around the fence, because resolve is not one of the fenced operations.
• Images are yours to supply. A data: URI keeps the deck self-contained; an https URL works but makes the deck depend on that host at presentation time.
• This package renders decks and knows nothing about where the content came from. Packages that do — dsh-paper-slides for academic talks — compose beside it and drive make_slides.

Known limitations

• No incremental reveal. A slide appears whole. Builds and transitions are the kind of thing that reads as generated when an agent picks them.
• The pptx is a clean deck, not a designed one. It carries your content, theme colours, fonts, bullets and notes into PowerPoint; it does not reproduce the HTML deck pixel for pixel, and it uses no master slides or animations.

License

MIT