How to use the 8-Bit Orbit Story Deck agent skill

What the 8-Bit Orbit skill makes the agent do

The skill gives an AI agent a ready-made HTML slide-deck template with a dark, pixel-art neon arcade look on a deep navy background. When you ask for a presentation, the agent copies the template, replaces the sample text with your own headlines, numbers and story, and keeps the retro design intact.

The output is designed to be a single self-contained web page that you can open in a browser. If your story needs more slides than the demo has, the agent duplicates an existing layout. If it needs fewer, it drops slides from the bottom and updates the page-number labels.

• Starts from the template in example.html and works in a copy of it
• Swaps placeholder text, numbers and names for your own content
• Adds slides by copying existing layouts rather than inventing new styles
• Leaves fonts, colours, decorative elements and the navigation code as shipped

Install the skill from the ZIP

Download the ZIP for this skill from this page and unzip it. You can install it for yourself or for a single project.

For all your projects, unzip the skill folder into ~/.claude/skills/. For one project only, unzip it into the project's .claude/skills/ folder. You can also upload the skill in the Claude apps under Settings → Capabilities → Skills.

After installing, check that the skill folder contains SKILL.md, example.html and template.json. The skill's own text says the upstream MIT licence file ships alongside these files as LICENSE, so look for it in the ZIP as well.

• Personal install: ~/.claude/skills/
• Project install: the project's .claude/skills/ folder
• App install: Settings → Capabilities → Skills

How to trigger the skill with a natural request

You do not need special commands. Describe the deck you want in ordinary words that mention a slide deck or HTML slides and the kind of story you are telling. The skill's trigger keywords include phrases such as html deck, html slides, story, personal, photo-essay and life, so requests along those lines are the most likely to load it.

Give the agent the material it needs. The skill's own example prompt asks for missing essentials first: the audience, the decision the deck should drive, source material, a deadline and any numbers that must stay exact. Answering these up front produces a more usable first draft.

• Make an HTML slide deck about my retro arcade collection for my hobby group, in the 8-bit style.
• Turn my story about restoring old arcade machines into a personal HTML slides deck.
• Build a 10-slide html deck about my passion project for friends, using the dark pixel-art template.

Example: from notes to a finished deck

Suppose you have a few pages of notes on how you started collecting arcade cabinets, the trips you made to find them and what the machines mean to you. Give the agent those notes, your audience (friends or a hobby community) and the main point you want people to take away.

The agent will draft headlines and body text from your notes, duplicate or remove slides to fit your material, and write the result as one HTML file. Open that file in a browser to review it. Check every number and name yourself, since the agent is working from what you supplied.

What you need and the safety notes

The skill lists no requirements. It does not run scripts and does not use the network, according to its listing. Its files are a Markdown instruction file, an HTML example and a JSON metadata file.

Because the skill is only instructions and template files, the risk is mostly in what the agent writes. Read the final HTML before sharing it, especially any text or links you did not write yourself.

• Requires: nothing listed
• Runs scripts: no
• Uses network: no
• Keep the design unchanged: the skill tells the agent not to swap fonts, recolour the palette or remove decorative elements

Tips for a better deck

The skill is built around one visual system, so ask for changes to content and structure rather than to fonts or colours. If you want a different look, use a different skill instead of asking this one to deviate.

The skill suggests the dark neon palette suits tech talks, gaming, hackathon demos and creative reviews. It is a poor fit for formal or sensitive material.

• Give the agent exact numbers and names in your first message
• Ask for a slide count if you have a fixed time slot
• Use the navigation as shipped; it is designed to work in the browser without changes
• Check the deck on the screen you will present from, since the dark background is high contrast