Deck Mixer 0.2.0 — Claude designs your plan decks

Claude now designs your plan decks. When you use Deck Mixer inside Claude (the Claude Desktop extension or the skill), Claude acts as the art director for plan and proposal decks: it chooses each slide's layout, writes the headlines and bullets, and describes the images — no planner API key needed for that.

What's new

• Claude designs the slides. create_plan_deck accepts a slide_plan from Claude; the command line has build plan --plan slides.json. The design rules Claude follows are the same ones the built-in AI planner uses.
• Review the outline first. Ask Claude to show you the slide-by-slide plan before it builds anything (plan_only, or build plan --plan-only), and change it together — "make slide 3 a photo slide".
• Safe by design. If a slide in the plan doesn't fit (unknown layout, too much text for a statement slide, a missing heading), only that slide falls back to the built-in layout, and Claude is told what to fix.

Downloads

File	For	How to install
deck-mixer-0.2.0.mcpb	Claude Desktop	Double-click it. Claude Desktop installs everything (including Python) and shows a settings form. Needs a recent Claude Desktop. Replaces 0.1.0.
deck-mixer-skill.zip	Claude in the browser (claude.ai), Claude Desktop chat, Claude Code	claude.ai / Desktop: Settings → Capabilities → Skills → upload the zip (code execution on). Claude Code: unzip into ~/.claude/skills/.

Prefer the command line? See the HOWTO.

Bring your own API key — still recommended

Deck Mixer ships with no API key. You still want your own for images (and for the AI design of tender decks); without one, image slots stay grey placeholders. One free Gemini key covers it — get it at aistudio.google.com/apikey and paste it into the extension's settings form, or run pandoro deck-mixer configure --gemini-api-key YOUR-KEY. See API keys.

Deck Mixer is shared as-is, without support — Growing pAI publishes tools it uses itself to show how it works. Want to explore what AI can do for your team? Get in touch.