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Measured with fresh agents (Sonnet) building decks through the MCP server with nothing but the
server's own instructions to go on, then changing them. The first deck (ten slides, three drawn
diagrams, animations, sections, a table, notes, PDF): before, 61 to 82 calls and 1 to 9 errors per
build, one misleading message alone costing about nine calls; after, 45 calls and no errors in the
app. A longer deck (fourteen slides, adding SmartArt, two chart slides, pictures, a glossary from
Markdown, hyperlinks, a hidden slide, comments, a pptx round trip) then a ten-request change pass
in the app: 73 and 96 calls with no error answers, where the remaining cost was verification after
answers of null. With the last commits, the same two prompts took 66 and 89 calls, with the
verification calls going to the richer answers instead of renders. The JSON answers of commands
stay structured; "answers in words" and "fail a whole id list" from #298 are not taken up.

Changes

• A key a command doesn't take is refused, not dropped. shape.insert {"shape": "roundRect"}
  used to draw a plain rectangle and answer ok. Session::execute now checks the keys against the
  command's params doc before anything runs:
  `shape.insert` was given `shape`, which it doesn't take. `shape.insert` takes {preset: …, rect: …}.
  The params doc is the contract, so docs that missed a key their command reads are completed
  (shape.insert adj/flip, insert.table data, insert.chart title, format.paragraph
  indentRight/special/specialBy/lineSpacingPt, guide.add defaults, animation.set
  start/duration/delay, shape.fill pictureProps), id is accepted wherever ids? is (the shared
  targets helper reads either), three tests that passed a key never read drop it, and the soak
  keeps its hostile values on keys the command reads. An explicit ids: [] is refused instead of
  quietly acting on the selection.
• Other silent successes become refusals. section.add {at} past the end used to attach the
  section to the last slide; table.style accepted any name and answered 1; chart.options {palette: [colours]} was accepted and ignored; transition.applyAll run from a slide with no
  transition cleared every slide (clear: true now does that on purpose, and the answer names
  the source and kind); file.export {layout: "notes", perPage: 3} ignored perPage;
  smartArt.* given the id of some other shape said only "select a SmartArt graphic". Each is
  refused naming the valid range, ids or names (for SmartArt: what the id is and which shape on
  the slide is the graphic), and the docs say what the parameter takes.
• Shape ids work from any slide. Ids are unique in the presentation, so a shape or text
  command given an id on another slide edits it there, makes that slide current (the window
  follows) and answers {"changed": 1, "onSlides": [4], "currentSlide": 4}; edit.select does the
  same. Read-only lookups (text.get, shape.sites) move nothing. Commands that need several
  shapes on one slide (shape.connect, arrange.*) say where the shape is and the slide.go that
  gets there. Before, shape.connect answered "both shapes need connection sites" for this case
  and edit.select answered ok while selecting nothing.
• Formatting after table.selectCells acts on those cells. format.color, bold, align…
  used to format the whole table (an agent colouring its header white got a white-on-white body).
  A table selected as a shape still formats every cell. format.* on shapes answers how many
  changed instead of null.
• A styled box in one command. shape.insert takes fill, line, size, color, bold
  and name (one undo step), where a diagram box took six commands.
• Tool names and references inside batch. add_shape, add_text_box, go_to_slide… run
  as the tool inside batch and run_command, and a command id given as a tool name is told to
  use run_command. A batch item can carry as: "a", and any "$a" in a later item's params
  becomes that item's id, so insert, connect and animate are one batch; a $name with no such
  item is refused, and so is an as name a reference could not spell (a hyphen, a space).
• Answers that save the follow-up call. slide.new/add_slide answer placeholders: {title, body, …} (both agents had guessed "slide id + 1"); slide.duplicate answers the new index, its
  placeholders and shape ids; slide.move the index and id; slide.fromOutline the indices and
  ids of the slides it made, and makes the last one current so the next add_slide lands after
  them; insert.table, insert.chart and insert.picture answer their rect; the table row and
  column inserts answer the table's rect, rows, cols and whether it now overflows the slide;
  animation.add answers the indices it added; section.add the section list; design.theme
  the new palette; design.palette the active theme's twelve colours as hex, the resolved text
  and background colours and the fonts; comment.reply/resolve the thread's state;
  comment.list {all: true} every slide's comments; comment.add its slide; edit.undo/redo
  the label and the slide; animation.add the click steps of what it added; review.spelling
  whether a dictionary was used (an empty list used to mean either "clean" or "no dictionary");
  transition.applyAll the slide count; export {all: true} the slide index of each file (the
  files are numbered from 1, the displayed number, which the docs now say); inspect_slide
  leaves out an empty notesBody; list_commands reports actsOn. slide.duplicate names
  placeholders by their kind (a copy carrying a footer used to answer it as body), and
  shape.connect {id, preset} changes a connector's kind as it re-glues it (the preset was
  ignored with id).
• Header, footer, slide number and date are set once. design.headerFooter used to apply to
  the slides that existed at the time; slides added later now inherit the setting, and the answer
  says so. Saving and exporting create a missing folder instead of failing with the OS error.
• Errors name the slide they looked at. animation.remove, animation.move and the other
  index-taking animation edits answer "no animation at index 2: slide index 1 has no animations"
  (or how many it has) instead of "no such animation", since the current slide is often not the
  one the agent meant.
• What a render used to be for. inspect_slide reports textOverflows and textHeight for
  a box whose text needs more height than it has, a table's drawn height (rows grow with their
  text), and no null fields; animation.get numbers each animation's click step, and
  animation.add's doc says that several ids in one call form one click step.
• Less to read per call, same number of calls. inspect_slide summarises animations as
  {count, clickSteps} unless asked for the list (animation.get has it). screenshot {path}
  writes the PNG and answers the path, so a client that cannot read image content can view it;
  the instructions say the same for render_slide versus export. (A families answer for a
  bare list_commands was tried and dropped: it saved bytes but cost one lookup per need.)
• Discovery. The server instructions carry the diagram recipe (styled box, connector with a
  box's site numbers, animation click steps, notes, transition, section, table with
  set_text {cell}, palette, export, headerFooter once early), so the common path needs no
  list_commands.
• An unknown id names the commands like it; "not available" says how to make the command
  available, naming only the parameters it takes.
• deckcraft-cli run reads every --cmd before any runs, says how it read one it can't parse
  and the form that works, and numbers a failing --cmd.
• insert_table and insert_picture hand the engine a rect instead of x, y, w, h (the refusal
  found that the four keys never did anything); set_text takes a table cell.
• Docs: connector sites and head/tail ends, transition.applyAll copies kind, duration and
  options, animation.move renumbers click steps, key nudges 6 pt (alt: 1 pt), pointer uses
  slide points, comment.list {} is the current slide, the instructions, docs/mcp.md and the
  run help page.

Round two (from the last two runs)

• Read-only lookups find a shape on any slide. shape.inspect and text.get given an id
  on another slide answered "no shape 404" although the edits already find an id anywhere. They
  now find it, move nothing, and answer slide (the index it is on). The server instructions
  list the commands that still need the current slide (shape.connect, arrange.*,
  smartArt.*; comment.* acts on the current slide).
• inspect_slide shows what a render used to be for. Per shape, only when present:
  textColor (the first run's colour, as the theme slot name such as tx1 or as hex), line: {color, width}, a connector's from and to {id, site}, and links: [{text, url|slide}].
  An agent that had changed the theme spent about eight renders finding invisible text and
  guessing which connector was which; a plain slide's answer grows by about 90 bytes.
• index and slide are both accepted on inspect_slide, export and render_slide
  (they used to disagree, and agents hit a refusal switching between them); both given with
  different values is refused.
• One call instead of twenty-two. animation.timing and animation.options take
  all: true or indices: […] and answer {changed}; an index past the end is refused before
  anything changes.
• key nudges and pointer drags answer the moved boxes (selected: [{id, rect}]), so the
  follow-up inspect goes away; edit.selection {} answers the selection with its boxes, and the
  app's ui.key/ui.pointer answers carry it (an older app gets one internal follow-up).
• An ids entry that is not an id is refused naming it. edit.select {ids: ["$sl.placeholders.title"]} used to answer {selected: []} and succeed; now the entry is
  named in the refusal (a $name reference stops at the dot, which the message makes clear).
• insert.smartArt takes rect and answers the final box, instead of landing a small
  graphic mid-slide that needed shape.setBounds.
• text.replace takes scope (body, titles, notes, all), so "replace X in body
  text" no longer touches titles, footers and notes; the answer says how many replacements on
  which slides.
• From the review: a locked shape on another slide is refused like one on the current slide
  (the lock check used the current-slide lookup after edits started finding ids anywhere);
  slide.new no longer takes ids for footer placeholders it does not add; an all-invalid ids
  list is told apart from an empty one; a batch item that answers an image (render_slide) is
  refused and told to run on its own; insert_picture/insert_table refuse a partial x, y, w, h;
  screenshot is marked as writing; the CLI reads every --cmd before opening the file, and
  its help says a failing --cmd skips the pending --save/--export without undoing earlier
  writes.

Breaking for callers

A parameter key a command doesn't document is now an error, and so are an explicit empty ids,
a section.add index past the end, an unknown table style, a colour list for a chart palette,
perPage outside the handouts layout and transition.applyAll from a slide with no transition.
A shape command with an id on another slide now succeeds and moves the current slide where it
used to fail. Two answers change shape: section.add answers sections as a list (the count is
count), and the table row/column inserts answer an object (the old count is changed);
review.spelling answers an object {dictionary, lang, issues} instead of the bare list; a
Title layout's placeholders no longer repeats the subtitle id under body; an ids entry
that is not a whole number is an error where it used to be dropped; the other answer changes
only add fields. Every UI, MCP and CLI call site passes the suites.

Tests

Engine: unknown keys refused for every command (a sweep over all of them), the aliases and the
completed docs still accepted, suggestions, enable hints, cross-slide edits and edit.select,
the styled insert (and its single undo step), placeholder ids, empty ids, formatting after a
cell selection, a multi-selection answering its count, the refusals (section index, table style,
chart palette), each richer answer, header/footer inheritance, comment.list {all}, animation
errors naming the slide, the animation summary in slide.inspect, the palette on a light and a
dark theme. MCP: tool names and as/$name references in a batch, insert_table placement,
set_text with a cell, actsOn, the recipe and the image note in the instructions, the
inspect_slide summary, screenshot {path} (headless refusal and the app call), the
command-as-tool hint, index/slide on all three tools, key and pointer answering the
boxes, the read-only hints, the image refusal in a batch, the partial-rect refusal. Round two
in the engine: lookups across slides, all/indices on the animation edits, the nudge answer,
the ids entry refusal, insert.smartArt {rect}, text.replace {scope}, the new
inspect_slide fields, the lock check across slides, the id allocation of slide.new. CLI: a
--cmd that doesn't parse runs nothing and is reported before the file is opened; a failing
--cmd is numbered. cargo fmt --check,
clippy -D warnings (engine, mcp, ui-egui, cli), the engine, mcp, cli and ui-egui suites,
cargo xtask layers and cargo xtask assets pass.

How it was tested

Each change came from a run, not a guess: a fresh agent (Sonnet) with nothing but the server's
initialize instructions, tools/list and list_commands, no access to the docs or the engine
source, building a deck through a bridge that logs every call. The log gives calls, error
answers, repeated calls, wall time and bytes read; the agent's report lists what it had to do
twice, could not do, or misread. Every finding went into a table with a verdict, the fixes landed
with a failing test first, and the same prompts were run again on the new build. Calls are the
primary cost (one call is four to eight seconds of model time); a change that saved bytes but
added lookups (a families listing for a bare list_commands) was measured and reverted. The
diagram PNGs were checked by eye after each run.

Build prompt (the agent gets this text; `` is an output folder)

Build me a deck about this repo (DeckCraft) for new contributors, about 14 slides, and make
it a deck I could actually present. Use a light theme (the first showing is in a bright room), number the slides and
put "DeckCraft · contributor tour" in the footer. Organise it in sections.

1. Title slide with the project name, a one-line tagline and the repo's logo from
   docs/brand (the white one if the background is dark).
2. "What DeckCraft is": a short bullet list with two levels of indentation.
3. Layered architecture as a drawn diagram (shapes and connectors), one row per layer with
   the crates in it, colour-coded by layer using the theme's accent colours.
4. Crate dependency graph drawn with boxes and glued arrows, direct dependencies only.
5. "A command's journey" as an activity diagram (UI, CLI, MCP → engine → model → renderer →
   output, with a decision diamond), built up click by click with entrance animations, and an
   emphasis animation on the engine box at the end.
6. The contribution workflow (read AGENTS.md → branch → change with tests → cargo xtask ci →
   PR → review) as a SmartArt process graphic.
7. A bar chart of lines of Rust code per layer (count them), and a pie chart of the number
   of crates per layer, side by side, with a data label on each bar.
8. A line chart of commits per month over the last twelve months (from git log).
9. Files in and out: a table (format, crate, in, out) with the header row merged into a
   single title cell above it, styled to be readable on this theme.
10. Quality gates: what cargo xtask ci runs, one gate per step with a short description,
    and a transition different from the rest of the deck.
11. Two screenshots of the app from docs/images, cropped to the editor area, side by side
    with captions.
12. A glossary built from this markdown outline (make it two slides if it gets long):
    "# Glossary\n- Session: …\n- Command: …\n- Placeholder: …\n- Layout, Master: …\n- Theme: …"
    (write the definitions yourself from docs/architecture.md).
13. "Where to start": bullets that link to the architecture slide, the command slide and
    the quality slide.
14. A hidden appendix slide listing every crate with one line each, for the PDF only.
    Speaker notes on every diagram, chart and picture slide. Add a reviewer comment on the
    crate graph saying which edges you left out and why.
    Run the spell check and fix what it flags.
    Replace every "DeckCraft" in body text with "DeckCraft 0.8" except on the title slide.
    When done: save as /tour.deckcraft, also save as /tour.pptx, export the PDF as
    handouts with notes (3 per page) to /tour-handouts.pdf, the outline as Markdown to

/tour.md, an animated GIF of the deck to /tour.gif, and PNGs of slides 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9 and 11 to /. Then reopen tour.pptx and tell me whether all 14 slides, the sections and the notes survived the round trip. Look at every diagram and chart PNG yourself before you call it done and fix what overlaps or is unreadable.

Change prompt, run on the saved deck in the app

Open

/tour.deckcraft. Then:

1. Move "Where to start" to right after the title slide and duplicate the quality slide as a
   "Quality at a glance" summary with half the text.
2. On the crate graph, rename the engine box to "engine (L5)", give it a different fill, and
   add one missing edge with a bent connector.
3. Change the commits chart to a column chart and add this month's number.
4. In the files table, add a "Tests" column, delete the PDF row, and centre the header.
5. Make the flow diagram's first click reveal two boxes, speed every animation up to 300 ms,
   and apply the title slide's transition to all slides.
6. Change the theme to a dark one (the deck is presented in dark rooms from now on); check
   every diagram, chart and table is still readable and fix what
   isn't using the new palette.
7. On every drawn diagram, make sure the connectors do not cross each other or run through
   boxes unless there is no other way; move boxes or re-route arrows (other sites, a bent
   connector) where they do.
8. Resolve the reviewer comment on the crate graph and add a reply first.
9. Undo the last change, then redo it.
10. Nudge the logo on the title slide 20 pt to the right with the keyboard, then drag the
    tagline down a little with the pointer, and take a screenshot of the window.
11. Save, re-export the PDF and the GIF, and export PNGs of every slide you changed.

Same prompt, same model, before and after the changes (calls are bridge calls to the server;
error answers are calls the server refused):

Prompt	Calls, before → after	Error answers, before → after	Wall time, before → after
Ten-slide deck (first half of the commits)	61 to 82 → 45	1 to 9 → 0	7 to 16 min → 5 min
Fourteen-slide deck (second half)	73 → 66	0 → 1	8.5 min → 7 min
Change pass on that deck (second half; one more request after)	96 → 89	0 → 2	6 min → 6 min

The remaining error answers were the agent's own slips that the server now names (a batch
name with a hyphen, a wrong SmartArt id); the calls saved were inspects and renders after
answers that used to say null.

Two issues from the same theme: format.font takes eastAsia and complexScript (#786; the key
check had started to refuse eastAsia outright), and master.insertPlaceholder refuses an
unknown kind instead of quietly inserting a content placeholder (#300, item 4).

Closes #786. Part of #298: with #990 it covers every bullet there except the worded success
answers and the whole-list failure (both deliberately not taken up) and the run summary line
(dropped: a CLI is silent on success); round two also makes the read-only lookups find a shape on
any slide and answer its slide, and refuses an ids or indices entry that is not an id instead
of dropping it. Related: #300 (item 4 done; item 5 partly: the footer and
slide number set with design.headerFooter now reach slides added later; items 1 to 3, the
placeholder shapes of item 5, and 6 to 8 remain). Side notes: #235 and #236 are fixed on main
and could be closed; #891 (design.background {all: true} not reaching slides added later) is
the twin of the headerFooter change and is not touched here. Merged with main as of today.
#990 is still open and touches the same places; merging it after this expects conflicts in
crates/engine/src/tests.rs (both append tests), crates/engine/src/cmd/animation.rs (both
reword the same errors; keep this branch's slide-naming message with #990's range helper) and
the server instructions (both add a sentence; keep both). Engine and render fixes the same runs
found (connector default sites, formatting set before the text, chart text colour, table text on
dark themes) are separate PRs.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Find and edit shapes across slides; selection and inspection now show slide locations and shape bounds.
  • Explore theme colors and fonts, control animation timing and selection, and replace text across chosen content areas.
  • Get richer results for slide, shape, table, chart, export, and interaction actions, including created items and geometry.
  • Batch actions can reference earlier results; screenshots can be saved to a file.
• Bug Fixes
  • Invalid command parameters and export options now return clearer errors; missing export folders are created automatically.
• Documentation
  • Updated CLI and MCP guidance with command behavior and usage examples.

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Walkthrough

This pull request updates presentation commands, cross-slide shape targeting, CLI command parsing, and MCP tool behavior. It also changes export and inspection responses, adds validation, and updates related UI behavior, tests, and documentation.

Changes: DeckCraft command and tooling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Command validation and cross-slide targeting crates/engine/src/cmd/{mod,arrange,points,edit,selection,shape}.rs, crates/engine/src/lib.rs, crates/engine/src/{tests,soak_tests}.rs	Command parameters and ID lists receive stricter validation and more specific errors. Shape lookup and edits can resolve IDs across slides and update the selection.
Text, shape, and insertion operations crates/engine/src/cmd/{find,format,insert,smartart,text,shape}.rs, crates/engine/src/tests.rs	Text replacement gains scope filters. Formatting and insertion commands accept additional inputs and return more details. Table-cell formatting can target selected cells.
Inspection and animation results crates/engine/src/cmd/{inspect,animation}.rs, crates/engine/src/keys.rs, crates/engine/src/tests.rs	Inspection responses include additional shape and slide data. Animation commands support explicit targets and report click steps and position-specific errors.
Presentation, design, and review commands crates/engine/src/cmd/{design,slide,review,table,transition,zoom}.rs, crates/engine/src/tests.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/{background_tests,spelling_tests}.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs.rs	Commands for themes, slides, sections, comments, spelling, tables, and transitions add validation or response fields.
Export and file handling crates/engine/src/{cmd/file.rs,io.rs}, crates/ui-egui/src/{backstage.rs,backstage_tests.rs,dialogs.rs}	Exports return slide indices, PDF parameters are limited by layout, and file writes create missing parent directories.
MCP tools, batch execution, and control responses crates/mcp/src/{tools,server,headless,tests}.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/control.rs, docs/{mcp.md,control-protocol.md}	MCP adds tool dispatch, batch references, stricter argument handling, screenshot paths, and selected-shape boxes in control responses. Tool guidance and tests cover these behaviors.
CLI parsing and execution apps/deckcraft-cli/src/{help,main}.rs, apps/deckcraft-cli/tests/it/cli.rs	The CLI parses all --cmd values before opening a presentation. Parse and execution errors identify a command’s position. Help text describes cross-slide IDs and failure behavior.

Priority: High

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client as MCP client
  participant Batch as batch handler
  participant Dispatch as run_either
  participant Engine as engine session
  Client->>Batch: Submit batch items
  Batch->>Batch: Resolve references from earlier results
  Batch->>Dispatch: Run each item as a tool or command
  Dispatch->>Engine: Execute engine command
  Dispatch-->>Batch: Return item result
  Batch-->>Client: Return batch results

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Possibly related issues

• #1186: The PR expands MCP and CLI operating guidance, though the requested OpenCode skill remains a separate follow-up.
• #198: The PR adds East Asian and complex-script font controls, addressing part of the issue’s broader non-Latin font-support objectives.

Suggested reviewers: echelon, nikitkara

Merge Risk: Low · up to 1fcb6

A null ids value sent while a text range is selected formats the whole shape instead of the selected text. The control-protocol documentation also still lists conflicting stale rows. Both are small, bounded problems to fix before or shortly after merge.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 1fcb6

Commands can now affect more slides within a presentation, while the inspected paths preserve object-lock checks, configured filesystem restrictions, and document-edit rollback. No new security bypass was established. Incomplete coverage prevents a minimal-risk assessment.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — A caller controlling command IDs and parameters can now directly target shapes on non-current slides through the shared editing helper. The demonstrated expansion is within the active presentation; current-slide selection should not be interpreted as an isolation boundary.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Configured automation roots separate read and write authority and compare resolved paths against root components. The new parent-directory creation runs after the write check. Without configured roots, filesystem operations retain the existing process-level authority model.
• observed — Filesystem confinement is a check-then-open control, not protection against another local process swapping directory links concurrently. This limitation is documented in the unchanged confinement implementation and is not established as introduced or materially worsened by this PR.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The native write sink retains exclusive temporary-file creation, synchronization, rename-based replacement, and temporary-file cleanup on reported write or rename failure. These controls preserve per-write failure containment but do not provide a transaction across multiple commands.

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Review comments at @apps/deckcraft-cli/src/help.rs:
- Line 96: Update the `run` help text to clarify that a `--cmd` failure skips
pending `--save` and `--export` steps but does not undo files already written by
earlier commands.

Review comments at @apps/deckcraft-cli/src/main.rs:
- Line 493: Move the command-parsing loop over cmds before Session::new() and
open() so malformed --cmd JSON returns its position-aware parse error before the
presentation is opened or any engine command runs.

Review comments at @crates/engine/src/cmd/design.rs:
- Around line 897-914: Update apply_header_footer to allocate IDs only for
placeholders that will actually be added: enabled by want, absent from the
slide, and available on the layout. Allocate each needed ID before borrowing the
slide mutably, then use that ID when adding the placeholder.

Review comments at @crates/engine/src/cmd/mod.rs:
- Around line 604-615: Update the lock filters in edit_geometry and
size_position to use the presentation-wide shape_anywhere lookup instead of
context-local st.shape, and exclude IDs whose matching shape is locked
regardless of which slide contains it.
- Around line 494-499: Update `targets` to distinguish an actually empty raw
`ids` array from a nonempty array whose entries yield no valid shape IDs, and
return `bad` with the supplied command ID in both cases. Add a `cmd` parameter
to `targets` and pass each invoking command’s ID through its callers; keep the
existing empty-list message and report the raw invalid `ids` value for nonempty
invalid lists.

Review comments at @crates/mcp/src/tools.rs:
- Around line 367-368: Update run_either to preserve image content blocks
returned by call_tool for image-producing batch items, rather than collecting
only text and returning success without the image. Alternatively, reject such
items with guidance to call the image-producing tool separately.
- Line 304: Set the path-capable screenshot tool’s readOnlyHint value to false,
since call_tool can pass path to ui.screenshot and write a PNG.
- Around line 375-388: Update with_rect to reject placement arguments unless x,
y, w, and h are all present as finite numbers, returning an error before
removing them; keep the existing default-placement behavior when none are
supplied. Update the insert_picture and insert_table dispatch paths to propagate
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• crates/engine/src/cmd/file.rs
• crates/engine/src/cmd/format.rs
• crates/engine/src/cmd/insert.rs
• crates/engine/src/cmd/inspect.rs
• crates/engine/src/cmd/mod.rs
• crates/engine/src/cmd/points.rs
• crates/engine/src/cmd/review.rs
• crates/engine/src/cmd/shape.rs
• crates/engine/src/cmd/slide.rs
• crates/engine/src/cmd/smartart.rs
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• crates/engine/src/cmd/text.rs
• crates/engine/src/cmd/transition.rs
• crates/engine/src/io.rs
• crates/engine/src/lib.rs
• crates/engine/src/soak_tests.rs
• crates/engine/src/tests.rs
• crates/mcp/src/server.rs
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• crates/mcp/src/tools.rs
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38-41: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Consolidate the duplicate UI method rows.

docs/control-protocol.md defines ui.pointer and ui.key / ui.text multiple times with different kind lists and behavior details. The duplicate rows can give consumers contradictory documentation. Keep one row per method, merge pressure? and the canvas-preview Escape behavior into the updated rows, and remove the stale rows. Apply the same consolidation to the duplicated ui.inspect row.

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-| `ui.pointer` | `{events: [{kind: down\|drag\|up\|move\|doubleclick\|tripleclick\|contextclick, x, y, mods?}], mods?}` | Drive the active tool in slide points through the same code path as the mouse (`contextclick`: the right-button press that selects before the context menu). Answers `{result, selection, selected: [{id, rect}]}`, the last event's result and the selection with its boxes afterwards |
+| `ui.pointer` | `{events: [{kind: down\|drag\|up\|move\|doubleclick\|tripleclick\|contextclick, x, y, mods?, pressure?}], mods?}` | Drive the active tool in slide points through the same code path as the mouse (`contextclick`: the right-button press that selects before the context menu). Answers `{result, selection, selected: [{id, rect}]}`, the last event's result and the selection with its boxes afterwards. `pressure` is `0..=1` for a pen; omit it for a mouse |
-| `ui.key` / `ui.text` | `{key, shift?, alt?, cmd?}` / `{text}` | Keyboard input; an arrow-key nudge of selected shapes answers `{handled, selected: [{id, rect}]}`, the moved boxes (also drives a running slide show: digits then Enter go to that slide, G is See All Slides, Z arms zoom, T pauses the presenter timer, R resets it, `[` and `]` change notes size, Esc clears a slide number, the grid and zoom before it leaves the show) |
+| `ui.key` / `ui.text` | `{key, shift?, alt?, cmd?}` / `{text}` | Keyboard input; an arrow-key nudge of selected shapes answers `{handled, selected: [{id, rect}]}`, the moved boxes (also drives a running slide show: digits then Enter go to that slide, G is See All Slides, Z arms zoom, T pauses the presenter timer, R resets it, `[` and `]` change notes size, Esc clears a slide number, the grid and zoom before it leaves the show; Esc stops the canvas animation preview) |
-| `ui.pointer` | `{events: [{kind: down\|drag\|up\|move\|doubleclick\|tripleclick, x, y, mods?}], mods?}` | Drive the active tool in slide points through the same code path as the mouse |
-| `ui.key` / `ui.text` | `{key, shift?, alt?, cmd?}` / `{text}` | Keyboard input (also drives a running slide show; Escape stops the canvas animation preview) |
-| `ui.pointer` | `{events: [{kind: down\|drag\|up\|move\|doubleclick\|tripleclick, x, y, mods?, pressure?}], mods?}` | Drive the active tool in slide points through the same code path as the mouse. `pressure` is `0..=1` for a pen; omit it for a mouse |
-| `ui.key` / `ui.text` | `{key, shift?, alt?, cmd?}` / `{text}` | Keyboard input (also drives a running slide show) |

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Review comment at @docs/control-protocol.md around lines 38 - 41:
Consolidate the duplicate `ui.pointer`, `ui.key` / `ui.text`, and `ui.inspect`
rows in the control-protocol documentation, keeping one row per method. Merge
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- Line 301: Update the `indices` conversion so each entry must convert to a
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Review comments at @docs/control-protocol.md:
- Around line 38-41: Consolidate the duplicate `ui.pointer`, `ui.key` /
`ui.text`, and `ui.inspect` rows in the control-protocol documentation, keeping
one row per method. Merge the complete pointer event kinds, `pressure?` details,
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