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The process has four stages: Brainstorm (Claude interviews you about goals and structure), React (Claude generates a full Marp Markdown draft), Iterate (refine via conversation or VS Code with live preview), and Export (to .md, .html, or .pptx). A reusable Claude Code skill file encodes preferred conventions like CSS palette, breadcrumb navigation, and section dividers, so every deck follows the same polished format automatically. Setup takes about 5 minutes via npm and a skills installer. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [The Claude.md Trick: 5x Faster Development](https://daily.dev/posts/the-claude-md-trick-5x-faster-development-bzmyef5da) · SitePoint · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [I Stopped Hand-Building Slide Decks. 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