Create demo pptx

Create Datadog Demo PPTX

Turn customer meeting notes into a polished, Datadog-branded demo deck built on the bundled template assets/2026_Datadog_Presentation_Template.pptx (~20 pre-designed slides, purple/violet/white palette, Datadog logo). Input: the user's meeting notes. Output: a finished .pptx following the preferred slide flow.

Setup

Set these paths (relative to this skill's directory) before running commands:

SCRIPTS="$(pwd)/scripts"          # or the absolute path to this skill's scripts/
TEMPLATE="$(pwd)/assets/2026_Datadog_Presentation_Template.pptx"

Workflow

Copy this checklist and track progress:

- [ ] Step 1: Ask clarifying questions
- [ ] Step 2: Build the slide plan (markdown table)
- [ ] Step 3: Generate any needed images (mock-ups / diagrams)
- [ ] Step 4: Build the deck (unpack → duplicate → edit → clean → pack)
- [ ] Step 5: Visual Check Loop (mandatory) → fix → re-verify

Step 1 — Ask clarifying questions first

Before creating the pptx, ask the user for anything missing from their notes. Do not fabricate content. At minimum confirm:

• Customer name, presenter name(s), and contact details (slides 1 and 19)
• Presentation date and delivery context
• The top 3 customer challenges (slide 3)
• The 3 Datadog use cases and which maps to each challenge (slides 4, 6-11)
• Current state vs. target state details (slides 5, 13)
• Competitors / incumbents for the capability comparison (slide 14)
• Business value / ROI figures (slide 16)
• A relevant customer story and strategic + technical next steps (slide 18)
• Whether to include the optional reference resources slide (slide 20)
• Which use cases need a screenshot mock-up, architecture, or system diagram
• Output file path/name for the finished deck

Use the AskQuestion tool when available; otherwise ask conversationally. Ask only what is genuinely missing — infer the rest from the notes.

Step 2 — Build the slide plan

Write the plan as a markdown table before touching any files. Map each row of the preferred flow to the template source slide it will be duplicated from. See references/slide-flow.md for the full 20-slide flow and mapping guidance. Analyze the template first:

python3 $SCRIPTS/thumbnail.py "$TEMPLATE"
python -m markitdown "$TEMPLATE"

Step 3 — Generate images

Before editing slides, generate images for any slide that needs a screenshot mock-up, architecture diagram, or system diagram (typically the use-case detail slides 7, 9, 11).

Step 4 — Build the deck

Unpack, duplicate the mapped source slides, reorder in <p:sldIdLst>, edit content, clean, and pack. Complete all structural changes before editing text. Full commands, editing rules, and pitfalls are in references/editing-and-qa.md.

python3 $SCRIPTS/office/unpack.py "$TEMPLATE" unpacked/
python3 $SCRIPTS/add_slide.py unpacked/ slide7.xml   # duplicate a source slide
# edit unpacked/ppt/slides/slide{N}.xml with StrReplace
python3 $SCRIPTS/clean.py unpacked/
python3 $SCRIPTS/office/pack.py unpacked/ output.pptx --original "$TEMPLATE"

Preserve Datadog branding — only replace placeholder text and visuals; never alter the palette, logo, or master styling.

Step 5 — Visual Check Loop (mandatory)

After packing, render every slide to an image and review it. Font size problems, text overflow, and truncation are invisible until rendered — this step is not optional.

1. Render to images (soffice → pdftoppm), then Read every slide image.
2. Build a fix plan table of issues before fixing anything.
3. Fix fonts / content in the slide XML.
4. Re-render and re-verify affected slides. One fix often creates another.
5. Repeat until a full pass reveals no new issues.

Detailed issue checklist, font-size table, and fix snippets are in references/editing-and-qa.md.

Resources

• references/slide-flow.md — the preferred 20-slide flow and template mapping
• references/editing-and-qa.md — build commands, font tables, fix snippets, visual QA loop
• scripts/ — PPTX editing utilities (unpack.py, add_slide.py, clean.py, pack.py, thumbnail.py, office/soffice.py)
• assets/2026_Datadog_Presentation_Template.pptx — the branded source template