add_ai_story: Add an AI-generated story to a generated deck

In autoslider.core: Slide Automation for Tables, Listings and Figures

Add an AI-generated story to a generated deck

Description

Post-processes an already-generated '.pptx': loads it, asks an LLM to tell the story of the decorated outputs (see [get_ai_story()]), and inserts the narrative as real content slides – a summary section at the front and a conclusions section at the end – then writes the deck back out.

Usage

add_ai_story(
  outputs,
  infile,
  outfile = infile,
  platform = "deepseek",
  base_url = "https://api.deepseek.com",
  api_key = get_deepseek_key(),
  model = "deepseek-chat",
  max_slides = 4L
)

Arguments

outputs	A named 'list' of decorated outputs (see [decorate_outputs()]), used as the data the story is told from.
infile	Path to the generated '.pptx' to read.
outfile	Path to write the augmented deck to. Defaults to 'infile' (overwrite in place).
platform, base_url, api_key, model	Passed to [get_ellmer_chat()].
max_slides	Integer cap on slides per section.

Details

Unlike [get_ai_notes()], which hides the LLM response in speaker notes, this produces slides that are visible in presentation mode.

Value

Invisibly, the path written ('outfile').

autoslider.core documentation built on Sept. 29, 2026, 5:08 p.m.