Read 00-agent-brief.md in full. These rules are mandatory.
Read the files that fit the task:
- any deck: 01-runtime.md, 03-story.md, 04-slide-design.md, 12-export-qa.md;
- the brief is vague or you are writing a prompt: 02-prompting.md;
- animation and builds: 05-motion.md;
- transitions between slides: 06-transitions.md;
- numbers and charts: 07-charts.md;
- flows, architecture, timelines, matrices: 08-diagrams.md;
- titles, big numbers, text treatment: 09-typography.md;
- a background world that lives behind all slides: 10-stage.md;
- rehearsal, presenter view, the room: 11-presenting.md;
- smoothness, battery, heavy slides: 13-performance.md;
- technical talks, code on slides (magic move, line focus, diffs, terminal, file tree): 14-code-slides.md (optional plugin runtime/code.js);
- hand-drawn SVG (data-sketch) and path morph (data-morph-to, the morph transition with shapes): 15-sketch-and-morph.md (optional plugin runtime/sketch.js);
- a palette from one accent colour: node scripts/palette.mjs --accent "#hex"; a reference deck to learn from: node export/deck.mjs analyze ref.pdf; a talk as narrated video: mp4 --voice --timings (12-export-qa.md).
Start every deck from template/deck.html (node scripts/sync-runtime.mjs --new my-deck.html), or copy the template and paste runtime/deck.css and runtime/deck.js into its two marked slots.
Show the plan as data first: the storyline (one sentence per slide), the style, and which slides carry a chart, a diagram or a transition with a meaning. Then write code. For a talk of 8+ minutes, write SCRIPT.md (template/SCRIPT.md) first, run node scripts/plan.mjs SCRIPT.md --check and --animatic, wait for approval, then --new deck.html (03-story.md).
After every version run node export/deck.mjs check and node export/deck.mjs sheet, look at the sheet yourself and fix by slide and step number (4.1, not "the chart slide"). Before handing over, also run check --timeline, check --no-webfonts and perf. To look at the exact frame a finding names, use still 6.2@0.45; mp4/gif take --draft and --workers N; fonts --write adds metric-matched fallback fonts (12-export-qa.md).

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