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/neuroflow:slideshow

Build a presentation from selected areas of the project.

/slideshow assembles a structured slide deck outline from your .neuroflow/ project memory. Pick which phases, analyses, figures, and findings to include; specify your audience and talk length; get a ready-to-export slide deck in Markdown/reveal.js or a structured text outline for PowerPoint or Keynote.

When to use it

  • Before a conference talk or poster session
  • For a lab meeting or group presentation
  • For a thesis defense or progress review
  • For a funder update or internal stakeholder presentation

What it does

Claude asks:

  1. What is this presentation for? (conference, lab meeting, defense, funder update, other)
  2. Who is the audience? (specialists, general neuroscience, mixed, non-scientists)
  3. How long is the talk? (determines slide count)
  4. Which phases or topics to include? (picks from what exists in .neuroflow/)
  5. Output format? (Markdown/reveal.js or structured text for PowerPoint/Keynote)

Then Claude loads the relevant phase content, synthesises key findings and figures, and produces a complete slide deck outline.

Slide structure

Every deck follows a fixed spine regardless of length:

Slide Content
Title Project name, presenter, affiliation, date, venue
Agenda Section list — one line per topic
Per-phase sections Section title slide + content slides (background, methods, results, limitations)
Summary 3–5 take-home bullet points
Future directions Next steps (talks > 10 min)
Acknowledgements Funding and collaborators
References Papers cited in analyses or preregistration

Slide count heuristic

Talk length Target slides
5–10 min 8–12
15–20 min 15–22
30 min 25–30
45 min 32–40

Output formats

Markdown / reveal.js

---
title: "OddballStudy2026"
author: "J. Smith"
date: "2026-03-09"
theme: white
---

# OddballStudy2026

J. Smith · Institute of Neuroscience · 2026-03-09

---

## Agenda

- Background
- Methods
- Results
- Summary

---

## Methods

---

### Participants

- N = 24 adults (12 F), mean age 26.3 ± 4.1 years
- Exclusions: 1 (excessive artefacts)

--

### EEG Acquisition

- 64-channel BrainProducts LiveAmp
- 1000 Hz sampling rate
- Online reference: FCz

Open with reveal.js or Slidev.

Structured text outline (PowerPoint / Keynote)

[SLIDE] Title
[TITLE] OddballStudy2026
[BULLET] J. Smith — Institute of Neuroscience
[BULLET] Date: 2026-03-09
[SPEAKER NOTE] Greet the audience and introduce the study briefly.

[SLIDE] Agenda
[TITLE] Overview
[BULLET] Background
[BULLET] Methods
[BULLET] Results
[BULLET] Summary

[SLIDE] Results — P300 Effect
[TITLE] Noise reduces P300 amplitude
[BULLET] Cluster at 350–520ms (p = 0.012)
[BULLET] Amplitude reduction: 2.3 µV (Cohen's d = 0.71)
[IMAGE: figures/erp_comparison.png]
[SPEAKER NOTE] Point to the shaded cluster region on the figure.

Copy each [SLIDE] block into a new slide in PowerPoint or Keynote.

Output

The slide deck is saved as slideshow-YYYY-MM-DD.md in .neuroflow/slideshow/. If a file with the same date already exists, a version suffix is added (-v2, -v3, etc.).

Files read and written

Direction Files
Reads .neuroflow/project_config.md, .neuroflow/flow.md, .neuroflow/{phase}/flow.md (for each selected phase), .neuroflow/fails/
Writes .neuroflow/slideshow/slideshow-YYYY-MM-DD.md, .neuroflow/slideshow/flow.md, .neuroflow/sessions/YYYY-MM-DD.md
  • /write-report — generate a prose report rather than a slide deck
  • /notes — capture rough notes that can seed a future slideshow
  • /output — package the slideshow file along with figures for sharing
  • /sentinel — audit project consistency before presenting