pitch-deck

Populates investment banking pitch deck templates with data from source files. Use when: user provides a PowerPoint template to fill in, user has source data (Excel/CSV) to populate into slides, user mentions populating or filling a pitch deck template, or user needs to transfer data into existing slide layouts. Not for creating presentations from scratch.

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Quality

Content

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The skill has an excellent, well-validated workflow and strong actionable guidance, but it is over-long with repeated content and its progressive-disclosure structure is undermined by missing reference files and inlined detail that should live in those references.

Suggestions

Actually include the four referenced files (formatting-standards.md, slide-templates.md, xml-reference.md, calculation-standards.md) in a reference/ directory so the navigation links resolve.

Move the inlined Quick Reference detail (slide hierarchy levels, rounding rules, alignment principles, font-consistency tables) into the corresponding reference files and keep SKILL.md as a concise overview.

Deduplicate the placeholder-vs-production guidance so it appears once (e.g., in Anti-Patterns) and is merely cross-referenced from MUST Requirements, Common Failures, and the Final Checklist.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is mostly efficient reference tables and checklists, but ~400 lines with notable repetition: the placeholder-vs-production messaging recurs across MUST Requirements, Anti-Patterns, Common Failures, and the Final Checklist, and several Quick Reference tables overlap content delegated to reference files. It could be tightened, fitting the 'mostly efficient but includes some unnecessary explanation' anchor.	3 / 5
Actionability	Provides concrete commands (soffice/pdftoppm), specific measurements (32.5cm/24cm widths, hex colors), recognition tests, and detailed checklists; the gap keeping it from 5 is that the bulk of executable table/shape XML implementation lives in referenced files rather than inline covering common cases.	4 / 5
Workflow Clarity	A five-phase workflow with an explicit validate-fix-repeat feedback loop, a 3-cycle cap with escalation, a per-slide validation checklist, and dedicated error handling matches the anchor for clear sequencing with explicit validation steps and feedback loops for error recovery.	5 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	References are clearly signaled in a purpose table with one-level-deep anchor links, but the referenced files (reference/formatting-standards.md, slide-templates.md, xml-reference.md, calculation-standards.md) do not exist in the bundle, so navigation is broken, and substantial reference-worthy content (hierarchy, rounding, alignment tables, anti-patterns) is inlined in SKILL.md rather than split out.	3 / 5
	Total	15 / 20 Passed

Description

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Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong, well-targeted description that explicitly covers both capability and trigger conditions with a clear negative boundary. The only weakness is specificity, where the action list is narrow rather than comprehensive.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Names the domain and a couple concrete actions ("Populates investment banking pitch deck templates with data from source files", "transfer data into existing slide layouts") but does not enumerate a comprehensive list of distinct operations, matching the anchor for 1-2 concrete actions.	3 / 5
Completeness	Clearly states what the skill does and provides an explicit "Use when" clause with multiple concrete trigger phrases plus a "Not for creating presentations from scratch" boundary, fully answering both what and when.	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Includes natural phrases users would say ("pitch deck", "PowerPoint template to fill in", "Excel/CSV", "populating or filling a pitch deck template") with good coverage; falls short of 5 because explicit synonyms like ".pptx" and "slides"/"slide deck" are absent.	4 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	"Investment banking pitch deck templates" is a clear niche and the "Not for creating presentations from scratch" negative boundary minimizes overlap with general presentation skills.	5 / 5
	Total	17 / 20 Passed

Validation

93%

Warnings & errors only

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
relative_links	Relative link issues: 22 missing	Warning

	Total	15 / 16 Passed

Repository: anthropics/financial-services
Path: plugins/agent-plugins/pitch-agent/skills/pitch-deck/SKILL.md
Commit: 574ed36

Reviewed: 16 days ago

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