Creates a Quarto revealjs slide deck in slides/ with the project style guide. Use when a presentation is needed.
Scanned 9/3/2026
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---
name: new-slide-deck
description: 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`):
```yaml
---
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:
```markdown
## 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:
```bash
quarto render slides/<filename>.qmd
```
6. Report the file path and the command to re-render.
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