Kadal Deck changelog

https://deck.kadal.cc/llms.txt

− > Kadal Deck is a presentation engine for people who write: slides in MDX, a live room your audience joins from their phones, and one command to publish. Open source under the AGPL, hosted from $4 a month.− - Pro: $8 annual, $11 monthly — Everything in Starter; Live room for 500 people at once; 25 GB storage; 100 versions kept per deck; Full analytics with CSV export; 95 premium backgrounds and layouts, new genres added; 20 API tokens; Priority email support− - [Themes](https://deck.kadal.cc/themes/): all 16 themes, light and dark− - [Pro library](https://deck.kadal.cc/library/): 95 premium backgrounds and layouts in 15 genres (Pro and Team, on deck.kadal.cc hosting)− - [Introduction](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/): What Kadal Deck is, how its pieces fit together, what is free and what the hosted service adds, and where to start.− - [Glossary term cards](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/glossary/): A glossary.yaml beside the deck links the first mention of each term on a slide to a definition card.− - [Narration](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/narration/): Rehearse with the deck reading your notes aloud and turning its own pages, in the browser's voice, Kokoro in the browser, or clips baked with kadal-deck narrate.− - [Presenter view and keys](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/presenter-and-keyboard/): The presenter view's timer, notes and tools, the phone remote, drawing, the camera and recording, display settings, the context menu, every keyboard shortcut and how to add your own.− - [The live room](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/live-room/): How the audience joins, follows and roams, and every live component (polls, word clouds, quizzes, questions, reactions, pace) with its options.− - [Themes and backgrounds](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/themes-and-backgrounds/): The 16 themes and how a deck finds them, the theme menu, themeConfig, the brand and lecture themes, fonts, addons and theme eject. Slide backgrounds have their own page.− - [CLI reference](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/cli/): Every kadal-deck command and flag (new, import, theme eject, dev, build, serve, relay, ci, check, format, info, screenshot, export, narrate, login, publish, mcp), plus create-deck, exit codes and environment variables.− - [Component reference](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/reference/components/): Every built-in component of Kadal Deck 0.4.2, with its props, defaults and an example.+ > Kadal Deck is the AI presentation app: AI drafts your slides with you, then you rehearse the talk with narration, a timeline and a teleprompter, present with your phone as the remote, and run a live room where the audience votes, asks and reacts. A slideshow that survives contact with a real audience. Open source; hosting from $4 a month.+ Build it. Rehearse it. Own the room. Kadal Deck is with the speaker for the whole talk, in four stages:+ - Build it: an AI assistant in the online builder drafts and revises the deck on the workspace's own AI key (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, OpenRouter); or an agent builds it through the MCP server and the Agent Skill; or you write one deck.mdx (Markdown/MDX) in your editor or the browser, with edit-on-the-slide, a media panel, 17 themes and a Pro library of 132 backgrounds and layouts.+ - Rehearse it: narration reads the notes aloud and turns the pages (browser voice or Kokoro in the browser); a per-slide timing plan with a pacing badge; a teleprompter window; glossary term cards.+ - Present it: the presenter view (notes, timer, next slide, drawing, camera, recording); the phone as the remote (live slide, notes, timer, pen, laser aimed by moving the phone); a Copilot that drives the deck on request; offline builds; export to PDF, PNG and PPTX.+ - Own the room: the audience joins from their phones with a link or QR code (no app, no sign-in): polls, quizzes, word clouds, Q&A with upvotes, reactions, raised hands and a pace check; analytics afterwards.+ The tour, a deck that shows every feature: https://decks.kadal.cc/@kadal-hq/tour/+ - Pro: $8 annual, $11 monthly — Everything in Starter; Live room for 500 people at once; 25 GB storage; 100 versions kept per deck; Full analytics with CSV export; 132 premium backgrounds and layouts, new genres added; The builder's assistant follows the Studio design skill; 20 API tokens; Priority email support+ - [Themes](https://deck.kadal.cc/themes/): all 17 themes, light and dark+ - [Pro library](https://deck.kadal.cc/library/): 132 premium backgrounds and layouts in 15 genres (Pro and Team, on deck.kadal.cc hosting)+ - [Introduction](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/): Kadal Deck is the AI presentation app — what it is, the four stages of a talk it helps with (build it, rehearse it, present it, own the room) and the docs for each, how its pieces fit together, and what is free.+ - [Coming from reveal.js](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/coming-from-reveal/): Convert a reveal.js deck with one command and keep its look in reveal's own twelve themes. What converts, which reveal.js options, classes, events and media behaviours work as they did, and what the import report lists.+ - [Narration](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/narration/): Rehearse with the deck reading your notes aloud and turning its own pages, in the browser's voice, Kokoro in the browser, or clips baked with kadal-deck narrate.+ - [Glossary term cards](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/glossary/): A glossary.yaml beside the deck links the first mention of each term on a slide to a definition card.+ - [Presenter view and keys](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/presenter-and-keyboard/): The presenter view's timer, teleprompter, notes and tools, the phone remote, drawing, the camera and recording, display settings, the context menu, every keyboard shortcut and how to add your own.+ - [The live room](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/live-room/): How the audience joins, follows and roams, and every live component (polls, word clouds, quizzes, questions, reactions, pace) with its options.+ - [Themes and backgrounds](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/themes-and-backgrounds/): The 17 themes and how a deck finds them, the theme menu, themeConfig, the brand and lecture themes, fonts, addons and theme eject. Slide backgrounds have their own page.+ - [Use a local model](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/local-models/): Run the builder's assistant and the presenter's Copilot on a model on your own computer (Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp or any OpenAI-compatible server), and drive deck folders from an agent on a local model through kadal-deck mcp.+ - [CLI reference](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/cli/): Every kadal-deck command and flag (new, import, theme eject, dev, build, serve, relay, ci, check, format, info, screenshot, export, narrate, login, publish, media, mcp), plus create-deck, exit codes and environment variables.+ - [Component reference](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/reference/components/): Every built-in component of Kadal Deck 0.11.3, with its props, defaults and an example.+ ## More from Kadal+ - [Kadal Store](https://store.kadal.cc): Printable planners, music, sound effects, shaders and 3D. Pay once, keep the files.+ - [Sanket](https://sanket.kadal.cc): Indian Sign Language recognition that runs in your browser and uploads nothing.+ - [Ooru](https://ooru.kadal.cc): A three-word address for every 12.5 m of Chennai, and a live map of power cuts.+ - [Kadal Studio](https://work.kadal.cc): The studio behind these: we build AI products end to end, for your team too.+ - [kadal.cc](https://kadal.cc): Everything we have shipped, as a sea you swim down through.+ - [pmithunish.com](https://pmithunish.com): Mithunish Prabhakaran, who builds all of it.

description

Create, edit and publish MDX slide decks, quick-edit CLI decks and run live audience rooms. → Build it, rehearse it, own the room: draft, edit and publish MDX talks and follow their live rooms.

version

0.5.3 → 0.6.5

https://deck.kadal.cc/llms.txt

− Made by Mithunish Prabhakaran, trading as Kadal (Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India). Engine source: https://github.com/kadalcc/deck (AGPL-3.0-or-later, commercial licence available). npm: @kadal/deck. Payments through Paddle.com as merchant of record.− - Free: free — Unlimited public decks; Live room for 25 people at once; 250 MB storage; 3 versions kept per deck; View counts; 1 API token for publishing from CI− - Starter: $4 annual, $6 monthly — Unlisted and passcode-protected decks; Live room for 100 people at once; 2 GB storage; 10 versions kept per deck; Time spent on each slide; No “Made with Kadal Deck” badge; Email support− - Pro: $8 annual, $11 monthly — Everything in Starter; Live room for 500 people at once; 25 GB storage; 100 versions kept per deck; Full analytics with CSV export; 20 API tokens; Priority email support− - Not in any plan yet: Custom domains, Single sign-on (SSO), A web editor.− - [Introduction](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/): What Kadal Deck is, how its pieces fit together, and where to start.− - [AI agents (MCP)](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/ai-agents/): Connect Claude, Cursor, VS Code or any MCP client to your Kadal Deck account — list, inspect, share and manage decks and read live rooms, with nothing to install.− - [CLI reference](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/cli/): @kadal/create-deck and the kadal-deck commands — dev, build, export, login, logout, whoami, publish.− - [Clicks and animation](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/clicks-and-animation/): Steps within a slide, effects, transitions between slides, auto-animate and motion.− - [Code](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/code/): Build-time highlighting with Shiki, stepped line highlights, titles and line numbers, and magic move.− - [Configuration](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/configuration/): Every deck option — its type, default and meaning — as defined by the engine's DeckConfig.− - [Export to PDF, PNG, PPTX](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/export/): Export a deck to PDF, PNG and PPTX from the same slides, with posters for embedded pages.− - [Getting started](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/getting-started/): Create a deck with @kadal/create-deck, run it, and know what every file in the project is for.− - [The renderer contract](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/islands/): How a slide holds a component from any framework — islands, renderers, lazy registration and hydration on arrival.− - [Angular](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/islands/angular/): Angular standalone components on a slide with @kadal/deck-angular — zoneless, JIT, no build plugin.− - [Fresh](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/islands/fresh/): Fresh islands on a slide with @kadal/deck-fresh — which is Preact, and why that is the honest answer.− - [Preact](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/islands/preact/): Preact components on a slide with @kadal/deck-preact — no plugin needed.− - [Python](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/islands/python/): Python islands with @kadal/deck-python — CPython in the browser through Pyodide.− - [Qwik](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/islands/qwik/): Qwik components on a slide with @kadal/deck-qwik — component$, the define, and useTask$.− - [Solid](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/islands/solid/): Solid components on a slide with @kadal/deck-solid — the .tsx collision and how to settle it.− - [Svelte](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/islands/svelte/): Svelte 5 components on a slide with @kadal/deck-svelte and its stamping Vite plugin.− - [Rust and WebAssembly](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/islands/wasm/): WebAssembly islands with @kadal/deck-wasm — the deckMount ABI, Leptos from Rust, and hand-written WAT.− - [Web components](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/islands/web-components/): Custom elements on a slide, with no framework at all — built into the engine.− - [The live room](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/live-room/): How the audience joins, follows and roams, and every live component — polls, word clouds, quizzes, questions, reactions, pace.− - [Maths, diagrams and sketches](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/math-diagrams-sketches/): KaTeX maths, Mermaid diagrams, and Excalidraw sketches drawn in code that tour one region per click.− - [Presenter view and keys](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/presenter-and-keyboard/): The presenter view's panes and tools, the share window for calls, and every keyboard shortcut.− - [The hosted service](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/publishing/): Publish a deck to deck.kadal.cc — workspaces, addresses, visibility, passcodes, versions, analytics and API tokens for CI.− - [Security model for published decks](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/security/): Why published decks live on their own origin, decks.kadal.cc, apart from your account — how presenters sign in with tickets, and what a passcode protects.− - [Self-hosting the room](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/self-hosting/): Run a deck and its live room on your own infrastructure — the room protocol, the endpoints a host serves, and what the AGPL asks of you.− - [Themes and backgrounds](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/themes-and-backgrounds/): The three themes, light and dark, the theme menu, slide backgrounds and the thirty background components.− - [MDX slides](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/writing-slides/): Separators, headmatter and frontmatter, layouts and slots, notes, and your own components.+ Made by Kadal (Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India). Contact: hello@kadal.cc; product help and billing: support@kadal.cc. Engine source: https://github.com/kadalcc/deck (AGPL-3.0-or-later, commercial licence available). npm: @kadal/deck. Payments through Paddle.com as merchant of record.+ - Free: free — Unlimited public decks; Live room for 25 people at once; 250 MB storage; 3 versions kept per deck; View counts; 1 API token for publishing from CI; A Kadal watermark on slides, and ads on the first and last+ - Starter: $4 annual, $6 monthly — Unlisted and passcode-protected decks; Live room for 100 people at once; 2 GB storage; 10 versions kept per deck; Time spent on each slide; No watermark, no ads; A PDF download button for viewers; Email support+ - Pro: $8 annual, $11 monthly — Everything in Starter; Live room for 500 people at once; 25 GB storage; 100 versions kept per deck; Full analytics with CSV export; 95 premium backgrounds and layouts, new genres added; 20 API tokens; Priority email support+ - Not in any plan yet: Custom domains, Single sign-on (SSO).+ ## Use cases+ - [Make a presentation in Markdown](https://deck.kadal.cc/use-cases/markdown-presentations/): Make a presentation from a Markdown file: write slides separated by ---, add steps and speaker notes, present with a presenter view, and export to PDF or PPTX. A step-by-step guide with Kadal Deck.+ - [Slides for conference talks](https://deck.kadal.cc/use-cases/conference-talks/): Write a conference talk in Markdown with code that steps line by line, speaker notes that follow your clicks, a countdown timer, and audience questions ranked by votes. Present offline or from a published link.+ - [Slides for lectures and teaching](https://deck.kadal.cc/use-cases/lectures/): Teach from Markdown slides with KaTeX maths that steps line by line, timed quizzes the class answers from their phones, and notes students can read after class. Free for public decks and rooms of 25.+ - [Pitch decks you can send and track](https://deck.kadal.cc/use-cases/pitch-decks/): Write a pitch deck in Markdown, share it with investors by an unlisted or passcode link, see how long each slide was read, and keep a PDF and an editable PPTX file for the data room.+ - [Sprint demos and engineering reviews](https://deck.kadal.cc/use-cases/team-demos/): Present sprint demos and engineering reviews from Markdown in your repository: Mermaid diagrams, runnable code on the slide, and a deck published from CI on every merge.+ - [Workshops with a live audience](https://deck.kadal.cc/use-cases/workshops/): Run a workshop where the audience joins from their phones by QR code: live polls, timed quizzes with a leaderboard, word clouds, questions ranked by votes and a pace meter. No app or sign-in for the audience.+ ## Compared with other tools+ - [Kadal Deck vs Slidev](https://deck.kadal.cc/compare/slidev/): Kadal Deck and Slidev compared: both turn a text file into slides with live code, drawing and export. Slidev is MIT, Vue-based and mature; Kadal Deck uses MDX and React, with audience polls and hosted publishing built in.+ - [Kadal Deck vs reveal.js](https://deck.kadal.cc/compare/revealjs/): Kadal Deck and reveal.js compared: reveal.js is the long-standing MIT HTML presentation framework with a large plugin ecosystem. Kadal Deck writes slides in MDX and adds a live audience room, PowerPoint export and hosted publishing.+ - [Kadal Deck vs Slides.com](https://deck.kadal.cc/compare/slides-com/): Kadal Deck and Slides.com compared: Slides.com is a hosted visual editor built on reveal.js, with real-time collaboration and AI tools. Kadal Deck writes slides as MDX text in your repository, adds audience polls and questions, and costs $4–16 a month.+ ## More+ - [Themes](https://deck.kadal.cc/themes/): all 16 themes, light and dark+ - [Pro library](https://deck.kadal.cc/library/): 95 premium backgrounds and layouts in 15 genres (Pro and Team, on deck.kadal.cc hosting)+ - [Changelog](https://deck.kadal.cc/changelog/)+ - [Sponsor the engine](https://deck.kadal.cc/sponsor/)+ - [Advertise on free decks](https://deck.kadal.cc/advertise/)+ - [Introduction](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/): What Kadal Deck is, how its pieces fit together, what is free and what the hosted service adds, and where to start.+ - [Install](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/getting-started/): What you need, how to create a deck with any package manager, what every file in the project is for, and how to upgrade.+ - [Your first deck in 5 minutes](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/first-deck/): Create a deck, write a slide that reveals one point per click, present it with speaker notes, and publish it to a link your audience can open.+ - [Give a talk with a live audience](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/guides/live-audience/): Let the room join from their phones, vote in polls, answer a timed quiz, ask and upvote questions and react, while you click from your phone and read the results afterwards.+ - [Present from your phone, even on a static host](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/guides/phone-remote/): Pair your phone with the presenter view and use it as a clicker, laser pointer and notes card, whether the deck is published, running on your laptop, or a plain build on GitHub Pages.+ - [Live code on a slide](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/guides/live-code/): Put an editor on a slide, run JavaScript, TypeScript or Python in it during the talk, import npm packages, show a diff, and save edits back to your files.+ - [Build a deck with an AI agent](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/guides/ai-agent/): Have an AI agent write a deck, check it, look at every slide and fix what it sees, then publish it, from Claude Code, any MCP client, or the builder on deck.kadal.cc.+ - [Pick and customise a theme](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/guides/theme/): Try every theme on your own slides, pick one, set its colours, logo and fonts, change one variable in your CSS, and eject a theme when you want to rewrite it.+ - [Export to PDF, PNG and PPTX](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/guides/export/): Turn a deck into a PDF with bookmarks, one PNG per slide, a PowerPoint file (pictures or editable text) and Markdown, from the command line, from the browser, or in CI.+ - [Use Kadal Deck in VS Code](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/guides/vscode/): Install the extension, write with the deck previewed beside you, reorder slides by dragging, let IntelliSense and the checker catch mistakes, format, present and export without leaving the editor.+ - [Migrate a Slidev deck](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/coming-from-slidev/): Convert a Slidev deck with one command or move it by hand, with what converts, what the import report lists, the theme names, and every Slidev spelling beside its Kadal Deck equivalent.+ - [MDX slides](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/writing-slides/): How deck.mdx is cut into slides; headmatter and frontmatter, defaults, includes, speaker notes, styles for one slide, your own components, and the built-in ones.+ - [Layouts and slots](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/layouts/): The 19 built-in layouts, how slots split a slide into regions, the keys layouts read, layouts that themes add, and how to write your own.+ - [Clicks and animation](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/clicks-and-animation/): Steps within a slide, switches, hand-drawn marks, direction-aware styles, transitions between slides (your own too), auto-animate and motion.+ - [Code](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/code/): Build-time highlighting with Shiki, stepped line highlights, code marks, tabs, snippets from files, TwoSlash types, magic move, and live Monaco editors that run code.+ - [Maths, diagrams and sketches](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/math-diagrams-sketches/): KaTeX maths with lines that light up per click, Mermaid and PlantUML diagrams, and Excalidraw sketches drawn in code that tour one region per click.+ - [Components](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/components/): Placed-by-hand elements, click-aware video, components that know where and in which scheme they are drawn, slide numbers and titles, and embedded Bluesky posts.+ - [Icons](https://deck.kadal.cc/docs/icons/): Lucide icons out of the box and any of Iconify's 200,000 icons by name, as a component, a tag or a utility class, bundled into the build so a deck needs no network.

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description

Write, check and publish MDX slide decks with a live audience room, from your AI agent. → Create, edit and publish MDX slide decks, quick-edit CLI decks and run live audience rooms.

version

0.2.2 → 0.5.3