What do I need to use Slide Density Rules?

The deck and its delivery mode; The room's physics; What the presenter will say.

Is Slide Density Rules 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.

Slide Density Rules

Q: How do I know the Slide Density Rules output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: The fork was decided before any slide was edited; Every projected slide carries exactly one point; The back-row/thumbnail physics were applied to real fonts; Every strip has a destination — nothing substantive vanished.

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

Fix slides that are documents in landscape mode — the one-point-per-slide rule, the projection-vs-reading fork that decides density, the text diet (headlines and evidence, prose to notes), and the glance test. Use when asked my slides are too busy, how much text per slide, fix this wall-of-bullets deck, or make this readable from the back of the room. Produces the density diagnosis, the per-slide fixes (split, strip, or move-to-notes), the projection/document fork decision, and the glance-test results.

▶ Run it free — no key needed 📝 Grade your existing draft View SKILL.md ↗

What to give it

▸The deck and its delivery mode — presented live, sent cold, or presented-then-circulated (the fork's honest answer is often "two artifacts": the billboard deck and the leave-behind — cheaper than one artifact failing twice)

▸The room's physics — screen size, room depth, video-call thumbnails; the back-row test is literal

▸What the presenter will say — the strip pass moves prose from slides to the spoken track, which requires knowing there is one ([presenter-notes](../presenter-notes/SKILL.md) receives what the slides shed)

✅ 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.

✓The fork was decided before any slide was edited

✓Every projected slide carries exactly one point

✓The back-row/thumbnail physics were applied to real fonts

✓Every strip has a destination — nothing substantive vanished

✓The glance test ran per slide with the noise removed

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not serve two modes with one deck — the hybrid fails as billboard and as document simultaneously

Do not read your slides — if the slide says it fully, the presenter is redundant; if the presenter says it fully, the slide can shrink

Do not delete substance to look clean — demote it; Q&A will come asking

Do not respect the 10-slide superstition over the one-point rule — more glanceable slides beat fewer walls

Do not shrink fonts to fit more — the font floor is the room's physics voting

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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Drop this on your blog, docs, or site — it renders a "Run this skill" card:

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