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new-slide-deck

Creates a Quarto revealjs slide deck in slides/ with the project style guide. Use when a presentation is needed.

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Use new-slide-deck to create and render a project-styled Quarto revealjs slide deck titled [title], with optional subtitle [subtitle].

Required inputs

  • [title]
  • [subtitle]

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name: new-slide-deckdescription: Creates a Quarto revealjs slide deck in slides/ with the project style guide. Use when a presentation is needed.argument-hint: <title>allowed-tools: Bash, Read, Write, Edit, Glob, Grep

Create Presentation

Create a new Quarto revealjs slide deck in slides/ with the project's style guide applied.

Arguments

  • $ARGUMENTS — the presentation title and optional subtitle (e.g., "Regional Disparities in GDP" or "Job Market Talk: Regional Disparities")

Steps

  1. Parse the title (and subtitle, if separated by a colon) from the arguments.

  2. Check slides/ for existing files to avoid name collisions. Generate a filename using the naming convention from slides/README.md (e.g., analysis-results.qmd or 01-seminar-talk.qmd).

  3. Create the .qmd file in slides/ with this YAML front matter (from the style guide in slides/README.md):

    ---
    title: "<title>"
    subtitle: "<subtitle if provided>"
    author: "<from index.qmd author field, or [FILL: Author name]>"
    date: today
    format:
      revealjs:
        theme: simple
        slide-number: true
        css: |
          .reveal h1, .reveal h2, .reveal h3 {
            color: #2874A6;
          }
          .reveal strong {
            color: #229954;
          }
    ---
    
  4. Pre-populate the body with a standard academic talk structure:

    ## Motivation
    
    - [Key question or puzzle]
    - [Why it matters]
    - [What we do about it]
    
    ## Related Literature
    
    - [Strand 1: ...]
    - [Strand 2: ...]
    - **This paper:** [Contribution]
    
    ## Data
    
    - [Source and sample]
    - [Key variables]
    - [Summary statistics]
    
    ## Empirical Strategy
    
    - [Identification approach]
    - [Model specification]
    
    ## Main Results
    
    - [Finding 1]
    - [Finding 2]
    
    ## Robustness
    
    - [Alternative specifications]
    - [Placebo tests or falsification]
    
    ## Conclusion
    
    - [Summary of findings]
    - [Policy implications]
    - [Future work]
    
    ## Thank You {.center}
    
    Contact: [email]
    
  5. Render the slide deck to verify it compiles:

    quarto render slides/<filename>.qmd
    
  6. Report the file path and the command to re-render.