diff --git a/scripts/verify-codex-plugin.mjs b/scripts/verify-codex-plugin.mjs
index f10593d..d0d94aa 100644
--- a/scripts/verify-codex-plugin.mjs
+++ b/scripts/verify-codex-plugin.mjs
@@ -43,6 +43,24 @@ export const REQUIRED_DESIGN_SYSTEM_GATE_WORDING = [
   "If the active design-system review fails, the next action is repair or regeneration against the MCP-returned constraints, not acceptance with caveats.",
 ];
 
+export const REQUIRED_SLIDE_DECK_WORKFLOW_WORDING = [
+  "Use this skill for JudgmentKit slide deck requests",
+  "## Slide Deck Creation",
+  "## Deck Workflow",
+  "deck_creation_status",
+  "mcp__judgmentkit.create_slide_deck",
+  "If no deck creation tool is listed by the active endpoint",
+  "Do not fabricate a JudgmentKit packet, deck, or MCP result",
+  "explicit `template_id` values or strong selection metadata",
+];
+
+export const REQUIRED_AGENT_DECK_DISCOVERY_WORDING = [
+  "slide deck creation",
+  "create a JudgmentKit slide deck",
+  "presentation, PowerPoint, or PPTX",
+  "deck creation tool is available",
+];
+
 const CODEX_SUFFIX_PATTERN = new RegExp(`\\+${"codex"}\\b`, "i");
 const LOCAL_HOME_PATTERN = new RegExp(`/Users/${"mike"}\\b`);
 const CODEX_CACHE_PATTERN = new RegExp(`\\.codex/${"plugins"}/cache`);
@@ -214,6 +232,16 @@ function collectMissingWordingFailures(skillText) {
     }
   }
 
+  for (const phrase of REQUIRED_SLIDE_DECK_WORKFLOW_WORDING) {
+    if (!normalizedSkillText.includes(normalizeText(phrase))) {
+      failures.push({
+        check: "slide_deck_workflow_wording",
+        file: "skills/judgmentkit-hosted-mcp/SKILL.md",
+        message: `Missing required slide-deck workflow wording from hosted MCP skill: ${phrase}`,
+      });
+    }
+  }
+
   return failures;
 }
 
@@ -310,6 +338,16 @@ function collectAgentYamlFailures(agentYamlText, mcpUrl) {
     });
   }
 
+  for (const phrase of REQUIRED_AGENT_DECK_DISCOVERY_WORDING) {
+    if (!normalizedAgentYaml.includes(normalizeText(phrase))) {
+      failures.push({
+        check: "agent_deck_discovery",
+        file: "skills/judgmentkit-hosted-mcp/agents/openai.yaml",
+        message: `OpenAI agent metadata must keep slide-deck discovery wording: ${phrase}`,
+      });
+    }
+  }
+
   return failures;
 }
 
diff --git a/tests/codex-plugin.test.mjs b/tests/codex-plugin.test.mjs
index 5cd3599..cfd1214 100644
--- a/tests/codex-plugin.test.mjs
+++ b/tests/codex-plugin.test.mjs
@@ -107,6 +107,16 @@ function validSkillText() {
     "",
     "# JudgmentKit Hosted MCP",
     "",
+    "Use this skill for JudgmentKit slide deck requests when the user asks to create, draft, generate, export, or turn source material into a deck, presentation, PowerPoint, or PPTX.",
+    "",
+    "## Slide Deck Creation",
+    "",
+    "Treat dry-run deck planning as JudgmentKit guidance when the MCP response uses `schema: \"judgmentkit.mcp.slide-deck/v1\"` and `deck_creation_status: \"planned\"`.",
+    "",
+    "Treat an exported PPTX as JudgmentKit output only when the MCP response or sidecar receipt confirms `tool_name: \"mcp__judgmentkit.create_slide_deck\"`, `deck_creation_status: \"exported\"`, and matching `sha256`, `bytes`, and `mime_type` artifact fields.",
+    "",
+    "If no deck creation tool is listed by the active endpoint, state that the current JudgmentKit endpoint cannot create the deck yet. Do not fabricate a JudgmentKit packet, deck, or MCP result.",
+    "",
     "## Design-System Acceptance Gate",
     "",
     "A generated UI that does not pass the active design system is not an artifact. It is a failed candidate.",
@@ -127,6 +137,10 @@ function validSkillText() {
     "",
     "For unreleased designs, proprietary design-system details, source code, customer data, or internal roadmaps, prefer a local checkout, local stdio server, or self-hosted JudgmentKit MCP endpoint instead of `https://judgmentkit.ai/mcp`.",
     "",
+    "## Deck Workflow",
+    "",
+    "For portfolio or case-study decks, pass explicit `template_id` values or strong selection metadata when layout variety matters; heed layout repetition warnings.",
+    "",
   ].join("\n");
 }
 
@@ -134,8 +148,8 @@ function validAgentYaml() {
   return [
     "interface:",
     '  display_name: "JudgmentKit Hosted MCP"',
-    '  short_description: "UI workflow review and hard design-system gates"',
-    '  default_prompt: "Use $judgmentkit-hosted-mcp to review this UI brief for workflow fit, surface choice, disclosure boundaries, and the hard design-system acceptance gate."',
+    '  short_description: "UI workflow review, slide deck creation, and hard design-system gates"',
+    '  default_prompt: "Use $judgmentkit-hosted-mcp to review this UI brief for workflow fit, surface choice, disclosure boundaries, and the hard design-system acceptance gate, or to create a JudgmentKit slide deck, presentation, PowerPoint, or PPTX from allowed source material when the deck creation tool is available."',
     "dependencies:",
     "  tools:",
     '    - type: "mcp"',
@@ -310,6 +324,46 @@ async function assertVerifyRejects(options, expectedChecks) {
   );
 }
 
+{
+  const fixture = await createFixture({
+    skillText: validSkillText().replace(
+      /## Slide Deck Creation[\s\S]*?## Design-System Acceptance Gate/,
+      "## Design-System Acceptance Gate",
+    ).replace(
+      /## Deck Workflow[\s\S]*$/,
+      "",
+    ),
+  });
+  await assertVerifyRejects(
+    {
+      sourceDir: fixture.sourceDir,
+      packageJsonPath: fixture.packageJsonPath,
+    },
+    ["slide_deck_workflow_wording"],
+  );
+}
+
+{
+  const fixture = await createFixture({
+    agentYaml: validAgentYaml()
+      .replace(
+        '  short_description: "UI workflow review, slide deck creation, and hard design-system gates"',
+        '  short_description: "UI workflow review and hard design-system gates"',
+      )
+      .replace(
+        '  default_prompt: "Use $judgmentkit-hosted-mcp to review this UI brief for workflow fit, surface choice, disclosure boundaries, and the hard design-system acceptance gate, or to create a JudgmentKit slide deck, presentation, PowerPoint, or PPTX from allowed source material when the deck creation tool is available."',
+        '  default_prompt: "Use $judgmentkit-hosted-mcp to review this UI brief for workflow fit, surface choice, disclosure boundaries, and the hard design-system acceptance gate."',
+      ),
+  });
+  await assertVerifyRejects(
+    {
+      sourceDir: fixture.sourceDir,
+      packageJsonPath: fixture.packageJsonPath,
+    },
+    ["agent_deck_discovery"],
+  );
+}
+
 {
   const fixture = await createFixture({
     extraFiles: {