Slidev is a beautiful slide framework, but it has a single-presentation mental model: one repo, one slides.md. If you give a few talks a year and want to keep them all in one place - with shared themes, easy diffing, GitHub Pages deploys - you end up writing the same scaffolding scripts every time. slidev-decks is that scaffolding extracted into a small CLI.

It is also, in 2026, one of the best slide tools for the AI era. The source is plain Markdown - an agent can read, edit, or generate a deck end-to-end the same way it edits any other repo, with diffs that review like code and no UI to automate against. Outline a talk in chat, hand it the file, and the slides write themselves. Try doing that with Keynote.

sd is the short alias. sd alone opens an interactive picker; sd ai fuzzy-matches against folder names and frontmatter titles to jump straight to the deck; sd new walks you through creating one (templates use {{TITLE}} / {{AUTHOR}} / {{YEAR}} placeholders); sd build --all rebuilds everything and skips decks whose source hasn’t changed since last build; sd export ai --dark produces PDFs. Any flag it doesn’t recognise gets forwarded to Slidev untouched, so nothing is taken away.

Detects your package manager from the lockfile. Reads title, date, author from each deck’s frontmatter for the picker. Includes a reusable composite GitHub Action for building and deploying every deck under a custom base path. Published on npm as slidev-decks; source at github.com/afonsojramos/slidev-decks.