morph-ppt

name morph-ppt description Use this skill when the user wants a .pptx with smooth cross-slide animation — PowerPoint Morph transitions, Keynote-style continuous motion, shapes that grow / move / rotate as the slide advances. Trigger on: 'morph', 'morph transition', 'smooth transition', 'continuous animation across slides', 'Keynote-style transition', 'animated slide sequence', 'shape continuity across slides'. Output is a single .pptx. This skill is a scene layer on top of officecli-pptx — inherits every pptx v2 rule (visual floor, grid, palettes, connector canon, Delivery Gate 1–5a). DO NOT invoke for a generic deck, pitch deck, or board review without cross-slide motion — route those to officecli-pptx base or officecli-pitch-deck. OfficeCLI Morph-PPT Skill This skill is a scene layer on top of officecli-pptx . Every pptx hard rule — visual delivery floor (title ≥ 36pt / body ≥ 18pt / title ≥ 2× body), 12-column grid on 33.87×19.05cm, canonical palettes, chart-choice decision table, connector canon, shell escape, resident + batch, Delivery Gate 1–5a — is inherited, not re-taught. This file adds only what Morph needs on top: cross-slide shape-name binding, Scene Actors vs content prefixing, ghost discipline, transition=morph CLI quirks, 52-style visual library lookup, and a morph-specific fresh-eyes Gate 5b extension. When the pptx base rules cover it, the text here says → see pptx v2 §X . Read skills/officecli-pptx/SKILL.md first if you have not. Setup If officecli is missing: macOS / Linux : curl -fsSL https://d.officecli.ai/install.sh | bash Windows (PowerShell) : irm https://d.officecli.ai/install.ps1 | iex Verify with officecli --version (open a new terminal if PATH hasn't picked up). If install fails, download a binary from https://github.com/iOfficeAI/OfficeCLI/releases . ⚠️ Help-First Rule This skill teaches the Morph workflow — when shape names must match, when to ghost, when the CLI auto-prefixes — not every command flag. When a prop name, enum, or preset is uncertain, consult help BEFORE guessing. officecli help pptx slide # authoritative for: transition, advanceTime, advanceClick, background officecli help pptx transition # transition / transitionDuration / transitionSpeed (Parent: slide) officecli help pptx shape # name, preset, x/y/width/height, fill, rotation, opacity, animation officecli help pptx animation # preset + trigger + duration values officecli help pptx <element> --json # machine-readable schema Help reflects the installed CLI version. When skill and help disagree, help wins. Every --prop X= in this file is grep-verified against officecli help pptx <element> . Specific confirmations: transition=morph is a listed value on slide ; advanceTime / advanceClick are valid. transition is a real element ( officecli help pptx transition , Parent: slide, set/get) — it exposes transition , transitionDuration , and transitionSpeed . Set the transition with the high-level path set <slide> --prop transition=morph ; tune speed/duration with the combined shorthand transition=morph-slow (or -fast , or transition=morph-<DUR_MS> ). Speed/duration are set only via that shorthand on the transition prop, not as independent sub-props. Both round-trip on readback: transition=morph-slow / -fast reads back as transitionSpeed=slow / fast , and transition=morph-<DUR_MS> (e.g. morph-1500 ) reads back as transitionDuration=1500 . Mental Model & Inheritance Inherits pptx v2. You should have read skills/officecli-pptx/SKILL.md first. This skill assumes you know how to: add slides + shapes + charts + connectors; address by @name= / @id= ; quote paths; use batch heredocs; use tailEnd=triangle on flow connectors; run the Delivery Gate 1–5a; attribute [AGENT-ERROR] vs [RENDERER-BUG] vs [SKILL gap] . If any of those are unfamiliar, read pptx v2 first. Inherited from pptx v2 (do NOT re-teach): Visual delivery floor — title ≥ 36pt / body ≥ 18pt / title ≥ 2× body, cover-richness, contrast floor, no \$\t\n literals, ≤ 1 animation per slide / ≤ 600ms. Grid math — 33.87 × 19.05cm, edge margin ≥ 1.27cm, inter-block gap ≥ 0.76cm, ≥ 20% negative space. For N-card grids: col = (33.87 − 2·margin − (N−1)·gap) / N . Four canonical palettes (Executive navy / Forest & moss / Warm terracotta / Charcoal minimal) — morph decks may pick a different mood from reference/styles/ , but contrast rules still apply. Chart-choice table — column vs bar vs line vs pie vs scatter vs large-text KPI; > 3 series + > 8 categories = split. Connector canon — shape=straight|elbow|curve , @id= for from/to (C-P-6), tailEnd=triangle on every flow. Shell escape 3-layer — $ single-quoted, heredocs for batch, <a:br/> for real newlines. Resident mode + batch ≤ 12 ops, <<'EOF' single-quoted delimiter. Delivery Gate 1-5a (schema, token grep, hyperlink rPr, slide-order, dark-on-dark) — every gate prints OK before declaring done. Known Issues C-P-1..7 (hyperlink rPr, chart spPr warning, animation duration readback, animation remove, connector enum, connector @name= , chart color renderer normalization). Attribution triage — [AGENT-ERROR] vs [RENDERER-BUG] vs [SKILL gap] . Morph identity — what this skill owns (delta on top of pptx v2): Cross-slide shape-name binding. PowerPoint's Morph engine pairs shapes by identical name= across adjacent slides and interpolates their position / size / rotation / fill / opacity. No matching name ⇒ no animation, silent fade. This is a workflow discipline, not a CLI feature. Namespace prefixes: !!scene-* (persistent decoration, never ghosted) / !!actor-* (content that evolves then exits) / #sN-* (per-slide content, ghosted on slide N+1). Plan the names BEFORE you add . Ghost position x=36cm (off the right edge of the 33.87cm canvas). Never delete a !! -prefixed shape — move it off-canvas so the morph exit animation still plays. transition=morph auto-prefix quirk. The CLI auto-prepends !! to every shape on a morph slide ( #s1-title is stored as !!#s1-title ). @name= path selectors still resolve — get .../shape[@name=#s1-title] returns the shape (matching is suffix/prefix-tolerant). The name you read back is the prefixed form. See §Known Issues. Adjacent-slide spatial variety. Displacement ≥ 5cm or rotation ≥ 15° between pairs — otherwise morph interpolates nothing visible. Renderer reality. Morph renders in PowerPoint 365 / Keynote / WPS. LibreOffice and many web viewers render as plain fade (runtime feature). Not a skill defect — [RENDERER-BUG] . Reverse handoff — when to go BACK to pptx base (or sibling skills) Stay in pptx v2 base for any deck without cross-slide motion (board reviews, sales decks, all-hands, training). Stay in officecli-pitch-deck for fundraising narrative arcs without morph. Use this skill only when the user explicitly asks for "morph" / "smooth transitions" / "continuous animation" AND ≥ 2 consecutive slides share a visual element that transforms. "Animated deck" meaning one-off entrance animations → pptx v2 §Animations, not morph. Shell & Execution Discipline Shell quoting, incremental execution, $FILE convention → see pptx v2 §Shell & Execution Discipline. Same rules verbatim. Morph-specific additions: !! in shell values — single-quote. Bash / zsh history expansion eats unquoted !!foo . Always use --prop 'name=!!scene-ring' (single quotes). In Python subprocess.run([...]) lists, no quoting needed — pass "name=!!scene-ring" as a plain string. $ in prop text — single-quote (price tokens). --prop text='$9/mo' and --prop text='$199/yr' — NEVER --prop text="$9/mo" (zsh/bash eat $9 as empty var → text rendered as . / stray period). Same for ${VAR} , $USER , \n , \r , \t inside a double-quoted prop. Gate 2 morph addendum below greps for the leak signature. # in shell values — safe, but quote anyway. # is a comment leader only at the start of a shell word. --prop name=#s1-title works, but --prop 'name=#s1-title' is the habit that stops you guessing. Batch heredoc is the cleanest path for multi-shape slides. <<'EOF' | officecli batch $FILE disables all shell expansion — safe for $ , !! , # , ' inside the JSON body. --json responses wrap the payload in .data.results[] . Both query and get return a .data.results[] array. A single node's format sits at .data.results[0].format.X ; that node's children sit at .data.results[0].children[] (each child's format at .data.results[0].children[].format.X ). Always go through .data.results[0] — bare .data.children[] or .data.format returns null silently. Variable: FILE="deck.pptx" at the top of every build script; every example below uses $FILE . Gate shell pattern — COUNT, then if/else. Never write grep … && echo LEAK || echo OK — when grep exits 1 (0 matches), the || branch fires with empty stdout and prints "OK" confusingly (or prints "LEAK" from prior pipes). Canonical form: COUNT=$(cmd | wc -l); if [ "$COUNT" -gt 0 ]; then echo "LEAK: …"; else echo "OK"; fi . Two primitives this skill owns Scene Actors = persistent !! -named shapes (decoration or content) paired by identical name across adjacent slides so Morph can interpolate them. Every !!scene-* / !!actor-* shape is a scene actor. Choreography = the plan for how actors evolve — who moves where, who enters, who exits, on which slide pair. Written BEFORE code in the §Morph Pair Planning table. Use this skill when the user asks for morph motion AND ≥ 2 consecutive slides share a visual element that transforms. Target-viewer caveat: morph needs PowerPoint 365 / Keynote / WPS — if the user is LibreOffice-only, warn first (see §Renderer honesty). Speaker notes rule. Every content slide (non-cover, non-closing) MUST carry speaker notes via officecli add "$FILE" /slide[N] --type notes --prop text='…' . Missing notes = not shippable — inherits pptx v2 §Hard rules (H7). Morph decks tend to be visually minimal, so notes carry the narration. What is Morph? (core mechanics) PowerPoint's Morph transition creates smooth motion by interpolating shape properties between adjacent slides, matched by identical shape names . Slide 1: shape name="!!scene-ring" x=5cm width=8cm fill=E94560 opacity=0.3 Slide 2: shape name="!!scene-ring" x=20cm width=12cm fill=E94560 opacity=0.6 ↓ transition=morph on slide 2 Result: Ring smoothly moves, grows, and fades darker over ~1 second Morph only runs if slide N+1 carries transition=morph . Apply it via officecli add / --type slide --prop transition=morph on creation, or officecli set "/slide[N]" --prop transition=morph after the fact. Slides 2+ that omit this prop fall back to whatever the master defines (usually no transition) — motion dies silently. Three-prefix naming system (non-negotiable): Prefix Role Lifecycle Example !!scene-* Background / decoration — persists across the entire deck Set once, adjust position/size to create motion; rarely ghosted !!scene-ring , !!scene-bg-band , !!scene-grid !!actor-* Content / foreground — evolves across a section Introduced on slide N, modified on slide N+1, N+2…, ghosted to x=36cm on its exit slide !!actor-feature-box , !!actor-metric , !!actor-headline #sN-* Per-slide content (titles, bullets, captions) Added fresh on slide N, ghosted to x=36cm on slide N+1 #s1-title , #s2-kpi , #s3-caption Hard rule: !!scene-* and !!actor-* names must NEVER collide (e.g., !!scene-card + !!actor-card in the same deck — morph engine confuses them). Disambiguate: !!scene-card-bg vs !!actor-card-content . Charts can be morph-paired. officecli add … --type chart accepts --prop name=!!… (the name reads back), so a chart with an identical !! -name on adjacent slides participates in shape-name morph pairing — the chart frame interpolates position / size. Note morph cannot interpolate the plotted data inside the chart frame. For bar-grow / line-grow narratives where the bars themselves must animate: (a) accept plain fade-in of the chart as-is, OR (b) build N !!actor-bar-K rectangles manually sized to the values and morph those — each rect carries the same !!actor-bar-K name across adjacent slides while width / height / fill evolves. Ghost accumulation is silent. Once a !! -prefixed shape appears on any slide, it stays visible on every subsequent morph slide unless explicitly moved to x=36cm . final-check helper does NOT detect !! shapes lingering in the visible area — only Gate 5b screenshot audit does. Plan every actor's exit slide in the pair table BEFORE coding. Spatial variety rule. Adjacent slides must have noticeably different compositions — displacement ≥ 5cm OR rotation ≥ 15° OR size delta ≥ 30% on at least 3 morph-paired shapes. Without this, morph interpolates nothing visible and the transition collapses to a fade (silent-fail). Simultaneous-timing constraint. All !! shapes in one morph pair animate simultaneously. To stagger shape A before shape B, insert an intermediate keyframe slide — there is no per-shape delay knob. Paired vs enter vs exit — three behaviors, one rule. Same mechanism (shape-name match) produces three outcomes: Behavior Source slide A Target slide B Who carries !! ? Paired morph (interpolate) has !!foo has !!foo both slides, identical name Enter (fade / morph-in) — (no counterpart) has !!foo target only — new shape Exit via ghost (slide off) has !!foo at visible x has !!foo at x=36cm both — same name, B is off-canvas Outgoing content (not incoming) is what gets !! -prefixed + ghosted. !!actor-* shapes silently "disappear" when you forget them — their name going missing on slide B reads as an unpaired exit (plain fade). Always explicit-ghost to x=36cm so the exit animation slides off the right edge visibly. One runnable example: # Slide 2: actor is visible at x=5cm — Slide 3: same name, ghosted off-canvas → visible slide-off motion officecli add " $FILE " "/slide[3]" -- type shape --prop 'name=!!actor-metric' \ --prop text= "42%" --prop x=36cm --prop y=8cm --prop width=6cm --prop height=3cm Content ( #sN-* ) is added fresh per slide. Because text changes every slide, Morph has no meaningful pairing to do on titles / body — it cross-fades them. This is why #sN-* get different names per slide (they are intentionally unpaired) and must be ghosted on slide N+1. Scene actors ( !! ) carry the continuity; content ( # ) carries the message. Morph Pair Planning (pre-code, REQUIRED) Before planning morph pairs, if the deck's audience / purpose / narrative is underspecified, run the planning prompt in reference/decision-rules.md to emit a brief.md first — a morph arc without a narrative spine collapses into "slide with motion", not "story with motion". Plan every transition in a table inside brief.md before writing any officecli add . Renaming shapes mid-build is the #1 cause of ghost accumulation bugs. Pair Slide A (start) Slide B (end) Actors in play Ghost on Slide B