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diff --git a/AGENTS.md b/AGENTS.md
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ tests/           Vitest tests and fixtures
 ## Don'ts
 
 - Don't bump the version, tag, or run the Release workflow unless the maintainer asks. Releases are cut by the maintainer once all in-progress work has merged. When asked, the version lives in `package.json`, `package-lock.json` (two fields at the top), `src-tauri/tauri.conf.json`, `src-tauri/Cargo.toml` and `src-tauri/Cargo.lock`; the Release workflow fails if the tag doesn't match or `CHANGELOG.md` lacks `## New in <version>`.
-- Don't hand-edit generated files: `package-lock.json` and `Cargo.lock` (use npm and cargo), the per-format site pages under `site/*-viewer/` and `site/sitemap.xml` (regenerate with `node scripts/build-format-pages.mjs`), and `packaging/` manifests produced by `scripts/packaging.ts`.
+- Don't hand-edit generated files: `package-lock.json` and `Cargo.lock` (use npm and cargo), the per-format site pages under `site/*-viewer/` and `site/sitemap.xml` (regenerate with `node scripts/build-format-pages.mjs`), `packaging/` manifests produced by `scripts/packaging.ts`, and the deck templates' designs in `src/deck/designs/` (regenerate with `node scripts/build-templates.mjs <boards folder>`; the boards are listed in `scripts/templates.config.json`), the document looks in `src/doc/designs/` (regenerate with `node scripts/build-doc-templates.mjs <boards folder>`; the boards are listed in `scripts/doc-templates.config.json`), and the spreadsheet templates in `src/sheet/templates/` (edit `scripts/sheet-templates/*.json`, then run `node scripts/build-sheet-templates.mjs <boards folder>`).
 - Don't change `.github/workflows/` to make a check pass; fix the cause.
 - Don't commit build output (`dist/`, `dist-web/`, `src-tauri/target/`).
 

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,14 @@ What changed in each version of Glance, newest first. Downloads for every versio
 
 ## New in 0.7.1
 
+- **When Glance can't make it, Claude or ChatGPT can.** If you ask for something Glance's tools can't make, such as animated charts or a video, Glance asks the company you use in Ask AI to make it, shows **Asking Claude…** with a Stop button, and opens the new file in a tab with a **Made by Claude** bar: **Keep** saves it next to the original, **Edit with Glance AI** carries on in Glance. **Do more with Claude…** does the same whenever you like. Files you opened yourself are only sent after you say yes. Files you download from claude.ai, chatgpt.com and the other AI websites in the sidebar open in Glance too (they're still saved in Downloads), and **Do more on claude.ai…** opens a new chat there with your request filled in.
+- **Documents.** **File → New** now makes documents too: 14 designed templates such as a job application pack, a school report, a club newsletter, an invoice and quote, a lab report and a wedding pack. Type straight onto the page, with bold, italic, underline and links showing as you type (the buttons above the page, or Ctrl+B, Ctrl+I, Ctrl+U and Ctrl+K), add headings, lists, tables and pictures, and long text flows onto new pages without shrinking. Invoice totals work themselves out. Documents save as .gdoc files and export to PDF, Word and pictures, and a Word file can be converted into one (Glance says what it leaves out). AI apps can write and edit documents, and every AI change can be kept or undone.
+- **Slide templates that look designed.** **File → New** offers 18 templates for school, work, events, personal projects and clubs, such as a book report, a quarterly review, a charity run and a club newsletter, each with six hand-made slides. Pick one to see all its slides, then use it as it is and type over the sample words, or ask the AI to make it about your own subject. Longer words shrink to fit, and the slides export to PDF, PowerPoint and pictures looking the same. AI apps can use the templates' slides too, in any order and as often as they like.
+- **The AI plans first and gets guided.** Ask the AI to make slides and it first shows a plan you can change: reorder, rename, remove or add slides, answer its questions, pick a look and how many words, then **Make My Slides**, or **Just make it** to skip. When a deck is open, what you type in Ask AI reaches the AI with the slides you picked, each text box's size limit and Glance's design rules, so a change like "make this punchier" stays in place and in the template's look; the box suggests a few starts too. Facts the AI doesn't know are left as placeholders like [date], highlighted on the slide, and a counter shows how much fits while you type in a text box.
+- **Plans and guided changes for documents and spreadsheets.** New documents and spreadsheets made with the AI start with the same plan, where you pick one of the document or spreadsheet templates as the look. With a document or spreadsheet open, Ask AI gets the text box or block you picked, or the cells you selected with their formulas and rules.
+- **Skills.** Glance's design and writing guidance for slides, documents, spreadsheets and edits now ships as skills (in the same shape as Claude's Agent Skills). Turn each on or off, add your own, or install them for Claude Code and Codex in **Settings → AI apps**. AI apps get them through Glance too, with ready-made prompts for making and editing files.
+- **Spreadsheets you can edit.** Glance now opens .xlsx and .csv files in a grid you can type in, with sheet tabs, frozen rows, a formula bar and formulas that work themselves out as you go. A toolbar above the grid has number formats, fonts, bold, colours, borders, alignment, sort, filter, a chart button and Sum, as in Excel. Add and delete rows and columns, undo and redo, and save as .xlsx or .csv, or export to PDF and pictures. Drop-downs, tick boxes, coloured rules and charts work too. **File → New** has 12 spreadsheet templates, such as a budget, a shop's stock list and a wedding guest list; use one as it is or ask the AI to make it about your own subject. AI apps and the Ask AI sidebar can make, read, change and check spreadsheets as well.
+- **Tidier tabs.** Tabs show a file's name without its type, with a coloured icon for slides, documents and spreadsheets and a dot until changes are saved. Hover a tab for its full name.
 - **Safer with untrusted files and websites.** Websites shown in the Ask AI sidebar can no longer reach the files on your PC. A 3D model that wants textures from the web now asks first, and a comic book (.cbz) page too large to be real warns you before it opens.
 
 ## New in 0.7.0

diff --git a/CONTEXT.md b/CONTEXT.md
@@ -5,12 +5,20 @@ A free, open-source reader and light editor for documents, images, 3D models and
 ## Documents
 
 **Document**:
-One opened file, shown in its own tab. It is a *PDF document*, an *image document*, or a *model document*.
+One opened file, shown in its own tab. It is a *PDF document*, an *image document*, a *model document*, or a *deck*.
 _Avoid_: File (on-disk only), tab (UI only)
 
 **Page**:
 One page of a PDF document or of a multi-page TIFF. Pages can be reordered, rotated, deleted, and dragged between documents.
-_Avoid_: Slide, sheet
+_Avoid_: Slide (that belongs to a deck), sheet
+
+**Deck**:
+A document Glance creates and edits as a set of slides, which people or AI apps build, rearrange and restyle, and export as PowerPoint, PDF or images. A PowerPoint file that is only viewed is not a deck until it is converted.
+_Avoid_: Presentation, slideshow, PPT
+
+**Slide**:
+One part of a deck: a layout with its content filled in. Slides can be added, reordered, restyled, hidden and deleted.
+_Avoid_: Page (that belongs to page-based documents), card
 
 **Frame**:
 One still image of an animated GIF. Frames are shown for inspection and export but can't be reordered or edited.
@@ -58,6 +66,32 @@ A new image composed from several images arranged on a layout.
 **Quartz Filter**:
 An appearance filter applied at export time (Black & White, Sepia, Reduce File Size, and so on).
 
+## Creating
+
+**Template**:
+A finished deck or document, with sample content, that a person or an AI app starts from. A deck template is a set of designs; its look (like "Confetti") names their style, which a theme doesn't change.
+_Avoid_: Blank, starter, preset
+
+**Design**:
+One hand-made slide of a template: its art and its text boxes. A slide made from it is a designed slide; its slots are the design's text boxes, not a layout's, and a deck can use a design as often as it likes.
+_Avoid_: Master, slide layout
+
+**Theme**:
+The fonts, colours, sizes and spacing a deck or document uses. Switching theme restyles every slide at once.
+_Avoid_: Style, skin, look (that means the app's own Wollo or Windows look)
+
+**Brand Kit**:
+A person's own logo, colours, fonts and tone, which every template and theme can use.
+_Avoid_: Brand, style guide
+
+**Skill**:
+Know-how for one kind of work, such as slide design or writing a resume, that Glance gives to whichever AI is helping.
+_Avoid_: Prompt, plugin
+
+**Check**:
+An automatic review of a file, such as design, spelling or accessibility, that lists what to fix.
+_Avoid_: Lint, validation
+
 ## Inspection
 
 **Inspector**:

diff --git a/PRIVACY.md b/PRIVACY.md
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Glance doesn't collect, store or send any personal information. There is no acco
 - Once a day, unless you turn off **Settings → Count this install**, Glance tells [Umami](https://umami.is) that a copy is in use. It sends the version number, whether the copy came from the Microsoft Store, a Flatpak or GitHub, and what any web request carries (the app's language, and the country worked out from your IP address, which isn't stored). It has no install ID, nothing about you, and never a file name or anything you open, so it only adds up to a number of copies in use. The Microsoft Store version does this too.
 - Sharing a file through the Windows share sheet sends it only to the app you pick.
 - AI apps you connect (Settings → AI apps) can use Glance's tools on your files. Glance itself sends nothing; the AI app sends what it reads through Glance (page images, text, file names) to its AI provider, under that provider's terms. Turn AI access off in Settings → AI apps at any time.
+- Ask AI sends your files to the AI company you picked only when you hand a job off to it (**Do more with <company>…**, or when Glance can't make something and asks that company's agent). Files Glance just made go with the request; a file you opened yourself is sent only after you say yes, once for each file. Turn automatic hand-offs off in **Settings → AI apps → Ask Claude or ChatGPT when Glance can't do it**. Files you download from an AI website in the sidebar are saved in your Downloads folder; Glance never types into or reads those websites.
 
 ## The website
 

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -128,6 +128,9 @@ Click a group to open it. Everything listed works today.
 
 - **Ask AI sidebar:** chat with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, GitHub Copilot, Qwen, Kimi, Mistral, Meta's Muse or OpenCode about the open file (the whole page or a selected area), signed in with your own account or an API key, or use the company's website in the sidebar. Chats are kept per document
 - **AI edits:** type or say what to change and the AI rewrites a PDF's text in place, in the document's own font, with Keep and Undo for each change
+- **Slide decks:** start from 18 designed templates for school, work, events, personal projects and clubs, type over the sample words on the slide, or have the AI plan one about your subject (change the plan, then build), with edits guided by Glance's design skills; export to PDF, PowerPoint or pictures
+- **Documents:** letters, CVs, reports, newsletters, invoices and certificates from 14 designed templates, typed into on the page; text flows across pages; export to PDF, Word or pictures, and convert Word files into Glance documents
+- **Spreadsheets:** open and edit .xlsx and .csv in a grid with live formulas, sheet tabs, frozen panes, sort, filter, drop-downs, tick boxes, coloured rules and charts; start from 12 templates or have the AI make one; save as .xlsx or .csv, or export to PDF or pictures
 - **AI apps:** Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Antigravity, Muse Code, Cursor, VS Code and any MCP app can view any format, read text with OCR, convert, combine, split and redact files, and see and control what's open in Glance. One-click setup in Settings → AI apps ([how it works](docs/AI-APPS.md))
 
 </details>

diff --git a/docs/AI-APPS.md b/docs/AI-APPS.md
@@ -45,6 +45,27 @@ On Linux, the .deb and .rpm install `/usr/bin/glance-mcp`. The Flatpak's command
 | `glance_edit_text` | Changes or deletes text in an open PDF or image in the same style; the words after it move along |
 | `glance_add_text` | Writes new text after or before a paragraph, or at a point, in the page's own style |
 | `glance_erase` | Removes a paragraph or an area by covering it with its background |
+| `glance_templates` | Lists the designed deck and document templates and each slide design's text slots, with sample text and how many characters fit |
+| `glance_create` | Makes a deck from layouts, or from a template's designs in any order, and opens it in Glance |
+| `glance_deck_outline`, `glance_deck_edit` | Read a deck and change it: add, move, restyle and fill slides, as one step you can undo |
+| `glance_deck_check`, `glance_deck_render` | List what to fix in a deck, and look at its slides as pictures |
+| `glance_doc_outline`, `glance_doc_edit` | Read a document (sections, text boxes with how many characters fit, table rows, blocks) and change it as one step you can keep or undo |
+| `glance_doc_check`, `glance_doc_render` | List what to fix in a document, and look at its pages as pictures |
+| `glance_word_replace` | Replaces text in a Word file, writing a new file |
+| `glance_create` with kind `spreadsheet` | Makes a workbook, empty or from one of the spreadsheet templates `glance_templates` lists, and opens it in Glance |
+| `glance_sheet_read` | Reads a spreadsheet: its sheets, tables and headers, drop-downs and rules, charts, the user's selection and the cells with their values and formulas |
+| `glance_sheet_edit` | Changes a spreadsheet: cells, formulas, rows, columns, sheets, formats, rules, drop-downs, charts, sort, filter and frozen panes, as one step you can undo |
+| `glance_sheet_check`, `glance_sheet_render` | List formula errors and broken rules in a spreadsheet, and look at a sheet as a picture |
+| `glance_export` | Saves a deck as PDF, PowerPoint or PNG pictures, a document as PDF, Word or PNG pictures, or a spreadsheet as .xlsx, .csv, PDF or PNG |
+| `glance_plan` | Shows the AI's plan for a new file on Glance's Outline screen, for you to change before it builds |
+
+### Skills and prompts
+
+Glance gives every AI app the same design and writing guidance ([ADR 0019](adr/0019-skills-given-to-any-agent.md)). Its skills (src/skills: `slide-design`, `document-writing`, `spreadsheet-building` and `editing`, each a `SKILL.md` in the shape of Claude's Agent Skills, with examples) are MCP resources at `skill://glance/<name>/SKILL.md`, and the server's instructions tell agents to read the matching one first. Four MCP prompts start the work with the right tools, rules and skills: `create-deck`, `create-document`, `create-spreadsheet` and `edit-file`.
+
+Settings → AI apps lists the skills with an on/off switch, opens the skills folder where you can add your own (a folder with a `SKILL.md`; it replaces Glance's skill of the same name), and can install the skills that are on for Claude Code (`~/.claude/skills/glance-*`) with a note in Codex's `~/.codex/AGENTS.md`, so they are there before the first tool call. Glance never downloads skills.
+
+In the Ask AI sidebar, a request about an open deck, document or spreadsheet reaches the agent with a `<glance-context>` block: the file and tab, what is selected, the template and each slot's maxChars, the tools to use, the check, render and fix loop, the placeholder rule and the skills that fit (src/core/ai/guide.ts).
 
 The four editing tools add markup to the open document, so you can see, undo or keep each change before saving ([ADR 0015](adr/0015-ai-edits-as-matching-markup.md)).
 
@@ -54,10 +75,18 @@ Turn **Let AI apps use Glance** off in Settings → AI apps to refuse all reques
 
 ## How it works
 
-AI apps start `glance-mcp.exe` and talk JSON-RPC over its standard input and output. `glance-mcp` (src-tauri/mcp-bridge, a few hundred kilobytes) answers the handshake and the tool list itself and relays tool calls to the Glance app over a loopback connection that only your Windows user can open: Glance listens on a random local port and writes the port and a secret token to `%LOCALAPPDATA%\io.github.redtrocks.glance\mcp-endpoint`; `glance-mcp` must present the token.
+AI apps start `glance-mcp.exe` and talk JSON-RPC over its standard input and output. `glance-mcp` (src-tauri/mcp-bridge, a few hundred kilobytes) answers the handshake, the tool and prompt lists and Glance's own skills itself and relays tool calls to the Glance app over a loopback connection that only your Windows user can open: Glance listens on a random local port and writes the port and a secret token to `%LOCALAPPDATA%\io.github.redtrocks.glance\mcp-endpoint`; `glance-mcp` must present the token.
 
 You never need to open Glance for an AI app: when a tool is first used and Glance isn't running, `glance-mcp` starts it with its window hidden, and if you quit Glance, the next tool call starts it again. Glance quits again a few seconds after the last AI app disconnects, unless a tool or you showed the window. The tools run in Glance itself (src/state/mcpTools.ts), with the same decoders, PDF engine, OCR and redaction as the app ([ADR 0014](adr/0014-ai-apps-through-mcp.md)).
 
+## Handing off from Ask AI
+
+The Ask AI sidebar works the other way round: Glance asks the AI company's own agent (Claude through claude-agent-acp, ChatGPT through codex-acp, or whichever company you picked) for what its tools can't make ([ADR 0020](adr/0020-hand-off-to-the-company-agent.md)). It happens when the in-app AI says the rest of a request is beyond Glance's tools, when you ask for a kind of file Glance can't make (a video, audio, an animated GIF, a web page, an SVG, a 3D model or an e-book), or when you tap **Do more with <company>…**.
+
+Glance starts a separate session of that agent, without Glance's tools, gives it your request, the file's path and an empty folder under Glance's app data (`hand-off\<date>`), and opens the file it writes there in a new tab with a **Made by <company>** bar. **Keep** moves the file next to the original (or into Downloads); **Edit with Glance AI** goes back to the chat. Files Glance just made are sent as they are; a file you opened yourself is sent only after you say yes, once per file. Turn this off in **Settings → AI apps → Ask Claude or ChatGPT when Glance can't do it**.
+
+In the website view, files you download from the site are saved in Downloads and open in Glance with an **Opened from <site>** bar (**Settings → AI apps → Open files made on AI websites in Glance**, on by default). **Do more on <site>…** opens the site's new chat with your request filled in, where the site supports it (claude.ai, chatgpt.com, chat.mistral.ai); you press send. Glance never types into or reads the sites. Neither feature is in the browser version.
+
 ## Privacy
 
 Glance sends nothing anywhere. An AI app you connect, however, sends what it reads through Glance (page images, text, file names) to its AI provider, like anything else it reads on your PC.