Present-Paper Skill

Phase 0: Init & Outline

Step 0a — Load design references (read before drafting outline)

Read three files now, in full. Read the rest only when the answer to Q0/Q2 tells you which one you need — a talk has one venue and one style, and reading the others teaches nothing you will use.

Read now (always):

A. references/ai_slide_tells.md — the marks a generated deck leaves. Read all of it, first. Building against it is why the deck does not need catching later; scripts/check_slide_tells.py catches what slips through (Step 3.6). Where another reference conflicts with it, it wins. Eyebrow labels and brand footers on every slide are the single most-cited visual tell.