HTML PPT — Tactical Telemetry / CRT Terminal

A 16:9 deck for project debriefs, security reviews, infra incident write-ups, ops walkthroughs, and any "we are not selling, we are reporting" presentation. Reads like a declassified mission packet, not a pitch deck.

This skill commits to ONE substrate (dark CRT) — never mix with the light Swiss-print mode in the same artifact.

Source

Distilled from Leonxlnx/taste-skill — skills/brutalist-skill/SKILL.md §2.2 (Tactical Telemetry & CRT Terminal). Deck system follows the project's existing html-ppt convention (16:9 slides, vertical-stack fallback when opened directly).

Hard rules

• Substrate: deactivated-CRT charcoal #0A0A0A / #121212. Never pure black.
• Foreground: white phosphor #EAEAEA. Secondary #9A9A98.
• Accent: ONE color — hazard red #E61919. Used on alerts, classifications, the latest data point. Never as a slide background fill.
• Optional: terminal green #4AF626 for ONE specific UI element across the entire deck (e.g. a single status indicator). Omit if it doesn't earn its place.
• Type: monospace dominates. JetBrains Mono / IBM Plex Mono for body and meta. Heavy condensed grotesque (Archivo Black / Inter Black) only for slide titles.
• Title scale: clamp(56px, 7vw, 96px), uppercase, tracking -0.04em, leading 0.9.
• Geometry: border-radius: 0. Visible 1px hairlines (#2A2A28 on charcoal). Use display: grid; gap: 1px over a hairline-colored background to render perfect cells.
• Scanline overlay: subtle repeating-linear-gradient at 2px / 4px cycle, opacity ≤ 0.08, applied as a fixed pointer-events-none layer.
• Phosphor noise: optional SVG-grain pseudo-element, opacity ≤ 0.06.
• Slide chrome: every slide carries top register strip — classification, slide ID, timestamp, coordinates — and a bottom bar with serial number + page.

Banned

• border-radius above 0.
• Drop shadows, gradients, glassmorphism, glow.
• Color other than charcoal, phosphor, hazard red, and at most one terminal-green element.
• Sans-serif body fonts. Monospace is the body.
• Pitch-deck "delight" — emoji, illustration, stock photography, friendly icons.
• Light-mode slides anywhere in the same deck.
• Slide transitions other than instant cuts.

Required slide archetypes (10–14 total)

1. Classification cover — giant numeral or call-sign on the left, redaction bar above the title, mono meta column on the right.
2. Briefing strip — eight-cell mono register with mission ID, dates, principals, classification.
3. Numbered objectives — three to five hairline-separated theses, each with >>> marker.
4. Telemetry grid — display: grid; gap: 1px of mono key-value cells; red highlight on the variant that breaks the trend.
5. Threat / risk register — hairline table with severity column in red.
6. Sequence / timeline — vertical mono list, 2-px vertical rule on the left, hazard markers on critical events.
7. Diagram / wiring — pure-CSS box-and-line schematic; rectangles with hairlines, ASCII arrows.
8. Specimen — single mono character or word at viewport-bleeding scale, used as a visual fulcrum.
9. Alert — diagonal hazard-stripe block (repeating-linear-gradient(135deg, ...)) with the most important sentence in the deck.
10. Audit log — append-only mono entries with timestamp + actor + event.
11. Closing colophon — operator, system, build, classification, sign-off line.

Motion

This aesthetic is mechanical and instant.

• Cuts between slides — no fades. Optionally a 60ms flicker (opacity: 0.85 → 1).
• A blinking caret on the cover (▌) and a single pulse on the live status dot. Nothing else moves.

Pre-flight

• ] Substrate is charcoal, foreground is phosphor, only accent is hazard red
• ] All border-radius is 0; all corners are 90°
• ] Title slide includes classification + serial + timestamp + coordinates
• ] At least one display: grid; gap: 1px telemetry module
• ] Scanline overlay applied as fixed pointer-events-none element, opacity ≤ 0.08
• ] At least one diagonal hazard-stripe alert block
• ] ASCII syntax decoration ([ ... ], >>>, ///) appears at least four times across the deck
• ] Numeric data uses tabular-nums + monospace
• ] No emojis, no curves, no gradients, no shadow effects
• ] Terminal green appears on zero or one element only — never as text body color