What do I need to use Deck Narrative Arc?

The deck (or its outline); The audience's starting state; The genuine tension; The exec-timing constraint.

Is Deck Narrative Arc free to use?

Yes — run it free in the browser playground (no API key needed for the sponsored trial, or bring any provider key), or install it into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and more via npx pm-claude-skills. MIT-licensed and open source.

Deck Narrative Arc

Q: How do I know the Deck Narrative Arc output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Situation occupies ≤2 slides for a familiar audience; The tension is one sentence, genuine, and arrives early; The recommendation is phrased as the tension's answer; Every slide-pair has a scripted transition sentence.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-19 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-cowork

Give a deck a spine the room can follow — the situation-complication-resolution arc, the tension that makes the recommendation feel necessary, the transitions that carry the thread between slides, and the arc-check that catches sag. Use when asked make this deck flow, my presentation feels like disconnected slides, structure the story of this pitch/readout, or the room got lost in the middle. Produces the arc mapping, the tension line, the transition script, and the sag diagnosis.

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What to give it

▸The deck (or its outline) — arcs are checked against the actual sequence ([deck-outline-first](../deck-outline-first/SKILL.md) headlines are the ideal input)

▸The audience's starting state — what they already believe and know; the situation section's length is set by *their* familiarity, and re-explaining their own world is the classic opening sag

▸The genuine tension — what's actually at stake (the risk, the closing window, the competitor's move, the cost of drift); decks without real stakes should say so honestly and be informational, not dramatic

▸The exec-timing constraint — answer-first audiences ([exec-vs-working-deck](../exec-vs-working-deck/SKILL.md)) still get an arc — it's compressed: the tension arrives in the first two minutes, not built across ten

✅ The bar it holds itself to

Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.

✓Situation occupies ≤2 slides for a familiar audience

✓The tension is one sentence, genuine, and arrives early

✓The recommendation is phrased as the tension's answer

✓Every slide-pair has a scripted transition sentence

✓Sag points were diagnosed structurally, not blamed on delivery

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not tour the audience's own world — the situation is a handshake, not a chapter

Do not manufacture fake tension — a room that smells drama-cosplay discounts the real stakes too

Do not resolve the tension in the middle and keep presenting — post-resolution slides are encores nobody requested

Do not deliver the recommendation unanchored — the same words, tied to the tension, double their force

Do not fix structural sag with delivery energy — enthusiasm over a missing complication is mime work

Install

npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude   # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcp

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