diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yml b/.github/workflows/test.yml
index 16a54880..349e285b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yml
@@ -42,11 +42,6 @@ jobs:
         with:
           melos-version: 7.8.1
 
-      - uses: invertase/github-action-dart-analyzer@v1
-        with:
-          fatal-infos: false
-          fatal-warnings: false
-
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: fvm flutter pub get
 
@@ -54,6 +49,13 @@ jobs:
         run: melos run build_runner:build --no-select
         timeout-minutes: 5
 
+      # Runs what maintainers run: `dart analyze --fatal-infos` over every
+      # package, after code generation so generated files exist. DCM is the
+      # other half of `melos run analyze` and is not run here yet; see
+      # docs/maintainers/analysis-parity.md.
+      - name: Analyze
+        run: melos run analyze:dart --no-select
+
       - name: Check Contract Schemas
         run: melos run contracts:check --no-select
 
diff --git a/docs/maintainers/adr/0001-runtime-mermaid-rendering.md b/docs/maintainers/adr/0001-runtime-mermaid-rendering.md
index 9ae3f230..f235fc0a 100644
--- a/docs/maintainers/adr/0001-runtime-mermaid-rendering.md
+++ b/docs/maintainers/adr/0001-runtime-mermaid-rendering.md
@@ -303,8 +303,20 @@ Implemented on `feat/superdeck-mermaid-core`, not as a spike:
 - **No Node or mermaid.js in the product.** mermaid.js 12.0.0 was used once,
   locally, to record the reference behaviour in §4.2. The export-time
   JavaScript fallback (option 3) is closed for this delivery.
-- **No web payload measurement yet.** The release web bundle delta is still
-  unmeasured; see the blockers list in the delivery report.
+- **Web payload, measured.** Demo release web build, same machine and SDK,
+  before and after the swap:
+
+  | | before | after | delta |
+  | --- | --- | --- | --- |
+  | `main.dart.js` | 3.36 MB | 5.10 MB | **+1.74 MB** |
+  | `main.dart.js` gzipped | 1.01 MB | 1.63 MB | **+0.62 MB** |
+  | whole `build/web` | 47.7 MB | 49.5 MB | +1.7 MB |
+
+  The tree shaker cannot drop unused diagram families, because
+  `Mermaid.render()` switches over all 28 — as predicted in §4.5. At
+  **+0.62 MB compressed** this is inside the 1.5 MB exit criterion agreed
+  below, so the decision stands; it is the price of the restored families and
+  it is worth re-measuring on every `mermaid_core` bump.
 
 ## 7. Reconsideration triggers
 
@@ -337,8 +349,9 @@ Implemented on `feat/superdeck-mermaid-core`, not as a spike:
 
 ## 9. Still open
 
-- The release web bundle delta from retaining 28 diagram implementations is
-  unmeasured. Measure before the next web release; the exit threshold agreed
-  above was 1.5 MB compressed.
 - The vendored parser is a fork of one file. Re-check it on every
   `mermaid_core` bump, and delete it when upstream rejects both inputs.
+- Web payload is +0.62 MB compressed (§6). Inside the agreed threshold, but
+  re-measure on every bump; if a future release pushes it past 1.5 MB, the
+  options are deferred loading of the diagram code or dropping the dependency
+  for web only.
diff --git a/docs/maintainers/analysis-parity.md b/docs/maintainers/analysis-parity.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..369fd8cc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/maintainers/analysis-parity.md
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+# Static analysis: what runs where
+
+Maintainer notes, current as of 2026-09-21.
+
+## The commands
+
+| Command | What it runs |
+| --- | --- |
+| `melos run analyze` | `analyze:dart` then `analyze:dcm` |
+| `melos run analyze:dart` | `dart analyze --fatal-infos` in every package |
+| `melos run analyze:dcm` | `dcm analyze . --fatal-style --fatal-warnings` in every package that depends on `dart_code_metrics_presets` |
+| `melos run analyze:all` | the above plus `dcm check-unused-files` and `dcm check-unused-code` |
+
+Run `melos run <script> --no-select` in scripts and CI. Without the flag melos
+prompts for a package and a non-interactive runner hangs on that prompt.
+
+## What CI runs
+
+The Test workflow ran `invertase/github-action-dart-analyzer` with
+`fatal-infos: false` and `fatal-warnings: false`, before `pub get` and before
+code generation. That reported strictly less than the local command, on a tree
+whose generated files did not exist yet.
+
+It now runs `melos run analyze:dart --no-select` after code generation, which
+is exactly the first half of `melos run analyze`.
+
+## The gap that remains: DCM in CI
+
+`analyze:dcm` is not in CI. Running it needs the `dcm` binary on the runner
+(`CQLabs/setup-dcm`) and a licence key in repository secrets. Until that is
+configured, DCM findings are caught only on developer machines.
+
+Closing it is one job step and one secret; it is not done here because this
+change cannot verify a secret it cannot see.
+
+## The other gap: the playground's DCM baseline
+
+`packages/playground/dcm_baseline.json` (written 2026-07-15 with DCM 1.38.0)
+suppresses findings that `melos run analyze` would otherwise fail on.
+
+Removing the editor emptied a third of it: 187 suppressed findings across 21
+files named code that no longer exists. Those entries were deleted — a stale
+entry cannot hide a current finding, so pruning them is safe and it stops the
+file from looking like more debt than it is. **468 suppressed findings remain**,
+all naming live files.
+
+Measured on 2026-09-21 by moving the baseline aside (630 findings before the
+prune, on the tree that still had the editor):
+
+| Finding | Count |
+| --- | --- |
+| Prefer dot shorthands (enum prefixes, class instantiations, class prefixes) | 272 |
+| Missing a blank line before `return` | 161 |
+| Member ordering (fields, constructors, private/public methods) | 92 |
+| Named arguments do not match declaration order | 33 |
+| Avoid inferrable type arguments | 18 |
+| Everything else, including 30 warning-level findings | 54 |
+
+`dcm fix` resolves 601 of the 630 automatically. **Do not run it unreviewed:**
+on this tree it also rewrote `Provider.of<DeckDocumentStore>(context)` to
+`Provider.of(context)` at dependency-injection call sites, and produced one
+file that no longer compiled (`genui_conversation_session.dart`, a
+"move declaration closer to use" fix leaving a `final` potentially unassigned).
+That sweep was tried during this work and reverted.
+
+The 29 findings `dcm fix` cannot fix include real ones worth reading: a field
+that is never disposed in `main.dart`, a loop that always exits after one
+iteration in `superdeck_a2ui_transport.dart`, a function that always returns
+null in `google_schema_adapter.dart`, and a missing `unknown` map entry in
+`error_classifier.dart`.
+
+**Recommended order when this is picked up:** fix the 29 by hand first, because
+they are the ones that can be defects; then run `dcm fix` package by package
+with the diff reviewed; then delete the baseline so the debt cannot grow back
+unnoticed.
diff --git a/docs/maintainers/first-principles-status.md b/docs/maintainers/first-principles-status.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c55731b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/maintainers/first-principles-status.md
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+# First-principles report: what was done with each finding
+
+Source: the September 2026 first-principles review of `main` at `e719d66b`,
+findings F1–F6 and the hardening questions in its §6. Status as of 2026-09-21.
+
+Two of the six describe defects in a component that no longer exists. The
+playground's file-backed editor was removed in favour of the Wizard, which
+generates a deck, presents it, and writes it only when the reader asks. Those
+findings are recorded as retired, with what replaced them, rather than quietly
+dropped.
+
+## F1–F6
+
+| ID | The report's finding | Status | Where |
+| --- | --- | --- | --- |
+| **F1** | Saved Markdown does not retain generated image bytes across restart. | **Applicable — addressed** | A save writes `<name>.md`, `<name>.assets/` and `<name>.deck.json` together. Reopening in a fresh run with an empty memory cache resolves the artwork off disk. `deck_library_durability_test.dart` |
+| **F2** | Generation cleanup is not scoped to the saved deck that owns the artwork. | **Applicable — structurally prevented** | Nothing evicts artwork by key any more. Every save creates a new deck ("My talk", then "My talk 2"), so no save can touch an earlier deck's files. A→B→A ownership is asserted over a real filesystem. `deck_library_durability_test.dart`, `mac_os_deck_library_test.dart` |
+| **F3** | Undo during an active autosave can leave the latest document unsaved. | **Retired** | Nothing auto-saves. The deck is written from the in-memory document when the reader saves it. The fix and its regression tests remain on `fix/playground-save-safety`, which is not in the review stack. |
+| **F4** | A bullet-only slide can be consumed as frontmatter. | **Applicable — fixed** | `fix/front-matter-recognition`: a `- ` line is no longer YAML evidence on its own, and a recognized block that is not a YAML map is reported instead of silently emptied. |
+| **F5** | PDF capture does not wait for asynchronous content readiness. | **Applicable — fixed** | `fix/pdf-export-readiness`: one readiness scope per slide, a bounded wait, one more frame, and a failure that names the slide and the asset. Mermaid diagrams participate: a diagram that cannot render fails the wait. |
+| **F6** | Route-backed rendering and controller navigation can diverge after deck resizing. | **Applicable — fixed** | `fix/slide-route-authority`: the route is the single authority; `pageBuilder` no longer repairs state; mounted tests assert route, rendered slide, counter and actions together. |
+
+## The report's §6 hardening questions
+
+| Question | Status |
+| --- | --- |
+| **Crash-safe saving** | Addressed for the only writer left. The deck library writes Markdown, artwork and manifest each through a temporary sibling and a rename, and a failed save removes only what that save created. |
+| **External-edit conflicts** | **Retired.** Nothing watches a file, and no file outside the SuperDeck folder is opened, so there is no conflict to have a policy about. |
+| **Theme persistence** | Addressed. `<name>.deck.json` carries the theme's catalog id, version and density; reopening resolves it through the catalog and restores it. A selection the catalog no longer offers is reported rather than silently replaced. |
+| **Platform support and CI** | Partly. CI now runs the same Dart analysis maintainers run. DCM in CI and the macOS native checks are blocked; see `analysis-parity.md` and "Platform evidence" below. |
+| **Resource limits and PDF scope** | Open. Unchanged by this work: the PDF controller still holds every captured image in memory, and raster output is still the only format. |
+| **AI release model and security** | Open. Unchanged: compile-time key injection, image generation on for debug and opt-in for release. |
+
+## Platform evidence
+
+**What ran here:** package tests on the pinned SDK (macOS host), the
+deterministic generation checkpoint, and the browser smoke suite on Chromium.
+
+**What could not run, and why — not "not run", but blocked:**
+
+- **Any macOS app build.** `packages/playground/macos` and `demo/macos` pin
+  `MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET = 10.15` (`Podfile`: `platform :osx, '10.15'`)
+  while the Xcode on this machine supports 12.0–27.0. Every macOS target fails
+  the same way:
+
+  > The macOS deployment target 'MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET' is set to 10.15,
+  > but the range of supported deployment target versions is 12.0 to 27.0.x.
+
+  This blocks `melos run test:integration:macos` and any manual run of the
+  Wizard, so the **sandbox and security-scoped bookmark behaviour of saving
+  and reopening is unproven**. Everything below that layer is proven: the deck
+  library tests write, list, reopen and resolve artwork on the real macOS
+  filesystem, faking only the picker and bookmark calls, which cannot run
+  headless anyway.
+
+  Raising the deployment target is a supported-OS decision, deliberately left
+  as an isolated follow-up rather than changed inside this work.
+
+- **WebKit browser smoke.** `npx playwright install webkit` downloads
+  `webkit-mac-15-arm64` (Playwright 1.51's build for macOS 15) and fails to
+  install on this macOS 27.0 arm64 host. Chromium runs and passes; WebKit
+  needs either a newer Playwright whose WebKit build supports this OS, or a
+  CI runner on a supported macOS version.
+
+- **Known intermittent check.** `the address bar follows the active slide`
+  failed once in four Chromium runs at this head (and once before, on the
+  previous stack, with identical routing code). When it fails, the browser URL
+  never leaves `/?enable-flutter-web-semantics=true` even though the deck
+  advanced, which points at Flutter web's route reporting not being installed
+  yet at the moment of the first navigation, rather than at SuperDeck's route
+  authority. It is not caused by the Mermaid change, and the test was left
+  strict. Worth a deliberate wait-for-first-report in the harness.
diff --git a/docs/maintainers/renderer-and-assembly-evaluation.md b/docs/maintainers/renderer-and-assembly-evaluation.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..873da553
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/maintainers/renderer-and-assembly-evaluation.md
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+# Deferred evaluations: shared assembly and the Markdown renderer
+
+Maintainer notes, 2026-09-21. These are the two items the first-principles
+report left open after the correctness work (report §4, "Recheck assumptions
+where the product has changed").
+
+## 1. Shared slide assembly — evaluated, consolidated
+
+**Question.** The CLI build and the playground's deck codec each assembled
+slides from `MarkdownParser`, `SlideOptions`, `SectionParser` and
+`CommentParser`. Extract one function, or leave them apart?
+
+**Evidence.** The two were not merely similar, they were the same four calls in
+the same order:
+
+| | `DeckBuilder._runBuild` | `DeckMarkdownCodec.decode` |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| split | `MarkdownParser().parse(markdown)` | `const MarkdownParser().parse(markdown)` |
+| options | `SlideOptions.parse(raw.frontmatter)` | identical |
+| sections | `SectionParser().parse(raw.content)` | identical |
+| comments | `CommentParser().parse(raw.content)` | identical |
+| around it | applies build plugins | wraps failures in `DeckFormatException` |
+
+Empirically, the front-matter work already ran every recognition fixture
+through both paths and asserted the same slide count, keys and errors
+(`deck_markdown_codec_test.dart`, "front matter recognition parity"), and
+rebuilding `demo/slides.md` after that change produced a byte-identical
+`superdeck.json`.
+
+**Decision.** Parity is proven, so consolidate: `assembleSlides(String)` now
+lives in `packages/builder/lib/src/parsers/slide_assembler.dart` and both
+callers use it. The differences above stayed with their callers, which is
+where they belong — plugins are a build concern, and the playground's
+`DeckFormatException` is an application-facing concern.
+
+**Deliberately not done.** No pipeline framework, no shared "deck service", no
+move of filesystem work or build status. The report asked for one small pure
+function; that is what exists.
+
+## 2. The Markdown renderer — evaluated, kept
+
+**Question.** `flutter_markdown_plus` renders slide content. Keep, or replace?
+
+**Decision: keep.** Nothing in this delivery depends on changing it, and no
+evidence was produced that a replacement is better for SuperDeck's mix of
+content. The correctness contracts the report asked for are now protected
+around it, which is the condition the report set before reopening this.
+
+**What a replacement would have to prove**, if anyone reopens it — this is the
+method, not a result, because the comparison has not been run:
+
+1. Render the same corpus on both renderers: the demo deck, the three fixture
+   decks under `packages/builder/test/fixtures/real_decks/`, and the docs
+   examples. Cover lists, tables, code blocks with the repo's syntax
+   highlighter, images resolved through `AssetCacheStore`, links, blockquotes,
+   GitHub alerts, selection and semantics.
+2. Prove capture parity: thumbnails, `SlideCaptureReadiness` participation and
+   a PDF export of the same deck, not just an on-screen frame.
+3. Measure first-frame and rebuild cost per slide on macOS and web release
+   builds, on the same decks.
+4. Show a concrete defect or missing capability the current renderer cannot
+   address. A working prototype is not a reason on its own.
+
+**Related, already decided elsewhere.** Diagram rendering is not part of this
+question: `docs/maintainers/adr/0001-runtime-mermaid-rendering.md` covers it,
+and it is settled.
+
+## 3. Work retired rather than finished
+
+The file-backed editor was removed, and with it the reasons for several items
+the report and its remediation plan tracked. Recorded so they are not
+rediscovered as gaps:
+
+| Retired | Why it no longer applies |
+| --- | --- |
+| Auto-save completion invariant (F3) | Nothing auto-saves. A deck is written when the reader saves it, from the document in memory. |
+| Save-a-copy of an externally opened file | No file is opened from outside the SuperDeck folder. |
+| Crash-safe writes for external files | Same: the only writer is the deck library, which writes new files through a temporary sibling and a rename. |
+| External-edit conflict policy | Nothing watches a file, so nothing can conflict with an external edit. |
+| Per-deck asset eviction on rebind | A save writes a new deck; it never replaces one, so there is nothing to evict. |
+
+The autosave work still has value as evidence of the defect and the fix; it is
+preserved on `fix/playground-save-safety` and `feat/playground-deck-assets`,
+which are not part of the review stack.
diff --git a/packages/builder/lib/src/build/deck_builder.dart b/packages/builder/lib/src/build/deck_builder.dart
index 5f4b1b0c..59dc679b 100644
--- a/packages/builder/lib/src/build/deck_builder.dart
+++ b/packages/builder/lib/src/build/deck_builder.dart
@@ -3,9 +3,7 @@ import 'dart:async';
 import 'package:logging/logging.dart';
 import 'package:superdeck_core/superdeck_core.dart';
 
-import '../parsers/comment_parser.dart';
-import '../parsers/markdown_parser.dart';
-import '../parsers/section_parser.dart';
+import '../parsers/slide_assembler.dart';
 import 'build_event.dart';
 import 'deck_build_plugin.dart';
 
@@ -136,18 +134,7 @@ class DeckBuilder {
     await _beginBuildPlugins();
 
     final markdownRaw = await store.readDeckMarkdown();
-    final rawSlides = MarkdownParser().parse(markdownRaw);
-
-    final parsedSlides = [
-      for (final raw in rawSlides)
-        Slide(
-          key: raw.key,
-          options: SlideOptions.parse(raw.frontmatter),
-          sections: SectionParser().parse(raw.content),
-          comments: CommentParser().parse(raw.content),
-        ),
-    ];
-    final slides = await _applyBuildPlugins(parsedSlides);
+    final slides = await _applyBuildPlugins(assembleSlides(markdownRaw));
 
     await store.saveReferences(slides);
     await _finishBuildPlugins();
diff --git a/packages/builder/lib/src/parsers/slide_assembler.dart b/packages/builder/lib/src/parsers/slide_assembler.dart
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f121e9f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/builder/lib/src/parsers/slide_assembler.dart
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+import 'package:superdeck_core/superdeck_core.dart';
+
+import 'comment_parser.dart';
+import 'markdown_parser.dart';
+import 'section_parser.dart';
+
+/// Builds slide models from deck Markdown.
+///
+/// This is the whole of stage 1 and 2 parsing: split the document into slides,
+/// read each slide's front matter into options, and parse its content into
+/// sections and comments. The CLI build and the playground's deck codec both
+/// call it, so a deck cannot parse one way on disk and another way on screen.
+///
+/// Callers add their own concerns around it: the build applies its plugins,
+/// and the playground wraps failures in a [DeckFormatException] it can show.
+///
+/// Throws [FormatException] for front matter that is recognized but invalid.
+List<Slide> assembleSlides(String markdown) {
+  return [
+    for (final raw in const MarkdownParser().parse(markdown))
+      Slide(
+        key: raw.key,
+        options: SlideOptions.parse(raw.frontmatter),
+        sections: const SectionParser().parse(raw.content),
+        comments: const CommentParser().parse(raw.content),
+      ),
+  ];
+}
diff --git a/packages/builder/lib/superdeck_builder.dart b/packages/builder/lib/superdeck_builder.dart
index 59afd9e2..21c4e7ee 100644
--- a/packages/builder/lib/superdeck_builder.dart
+++ b/packages/builder/lib/superdeck_builder.dart
@@ -10,5 +10,6 @@ export 'src/build/deck_builder.dart';
 
 export 'src/parsers/comment_parser.dart';
 export 'src/parsers/markdown_parser.dart';
+export 'src/parsers/slide_assembler.dart';
 export 'src/parsers/section_parser.dart';
 export 'src/parsers/slide_serializer.dart';
diff --git a/packages/builder/test/src/parsers/slide_assembler_test.dart b/packages/builder/test/src/parsers/slide_assembler_test.dart
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..cde6abd1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/builder/test/src/parsers/slide_assembler_test.dart
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+import 'dart:convert';
+import 'dart:io';
+
+import 'package:superdeck_builder/superdeck_builder.dart';
+import 'package:superdeck_core/superdeck_core.dart';
+import 'package:test/test.dart';
+
+/// The assembly the CLI build and the playground deck codec share.
+///
+/// The two used to hold identical copies of these four calls. These tests fix
+/// what the shared function produces, over the decks the repository actually
+/// ships, so a future change to one consumer cannot quietly change the other.
+void main() {
+  String canonical(List<Slide> slides) =>
+      jsonEncode([for (final slide in slides) slide.toJson()]);
+
+  group('assembleSlides', () {
+    test('reads front matter, sections and comments off one slide', () {
+      final slides = assembleSlides('''
+---
+title: Opening
+layout: fullscreen
+---
+
+# Hello
+
+<!-- a speaker note -->
+
+@section
+Body text
+''');
+
+      expect(slides, hasLength(1));
+      final slide = slides.single;
+      expect(slide.options?.title, 'Opening');
+      expect(slide.sections, isNotEmpty);
+      expect(slide.comments, contains('a speaker note'));
+    });
+
+    test('splits a deck the way the separators say', () {
+      final slides = assembleSlides('# One\n\n---\n\n# Two\n\n---\n\n# Three\n');
+
+      expect(slides, hasLength(3));
+      expect(slides.map((slide) => slide.key).toSet(), hasLength(3));
+    });
+
+    test('reports invalid recognized front matter', () {
+      expect(
+        () => assembleSlides('---\ntitle: "unclosed\n---\nBody\n'),
+        throwsFormatException,
+      );
+    });
+
+    test('assembles the demo deck', () {
+      final demo = File('../../demo/slides.md');
+      if (!demo.existsSync()) {
+        markTestSkipped('demo/slides.md not found');
+
+        return;
+      }
+
+      final slides = assembleSlides(demo.readAsStringSync());
+
+      expect(slides, hasLength(greaterThan(20)));
+      expect(
+        slides.every((slide) => slide.key.isNotEmpty),
+        isTrue,
+        reason: 'every slide is addressable',
+      );
+      // Assembling twice is the same deck: no counters, clocks or randomness.
+      expect(canonical(assembleSlides(demo.readAsStringSync())),
+          canonical(slides));
+    });
+  });
+}
diff --git a/packages/playground/dcm_baseline.json b/packages/playground/dcm_baseline.json
index 24ba81b5..e2e13365 100644
--- a/packages/playground/dcm_baseline.json
+++ b/packages/playground/dcm_baseline.json
@@ -571,57 +571,6 @@
           "ff213c70e20583d4a8461e8a7fdc6769"
         ]
       },
-      "lib/features/ai/quick_agent/domain/commands/generate_deck_command.dart": {
-        "member-ordering": [
-          "93ac312546071a4932c9cb72821b311a"
-        ],
-        "prefer-shorthands-with-enums": [
-          "9d8cd4c8f6b2f7f01a366c97c50b2311",
-          "bbfc1d5b729389800243cd8eacf3d25a"
-        ],
-        "newline-before-return": [
-          "92bc3a2631bf7f0106dc346803864748"
-        ]
-      },
-      "lib/features/ai/quick_agent/presentation/pages/generation_lab_page.dart": {
-        "prefer-shorthands-with-enums": [
-          "9d8cd4c8f6b2f7f01a366c97c50b2311"
-        ],
-        "prefer-shorthands-with-constructors": [
-          "25d70aceeb5c316696c392bd922e2a3d",
-          "7619ac479ac9f2834cfe7d877347194d",
-          "946405a29e13e101d76b4f487157091b"
-        ],
-        "arguments-ordering": [
-          "a8a23a1abccd94a98763e6004de4bb5a",
-          "bcce95b8af165a092ef546e7a7732a36"
-        ]
-      },
-      "lib/features/ai/quick_agent/presentation/widgets/agent_generate_panel.dart": {
-        "avoid-inferrable-type-arguments": [
-          "3f63415e4669117ff49f73960a4719d0"
-        ],
-        "arguments-ordering": [
-          "6326f0a8f7d22bcf44408b4b40766394",
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diff --git a/packages/playground/lib/core/data/mappers/deck_markdown_codec.dart b/packages/playground/lib/core/data/mappers/deck_markdown_codec.dart
index fa2318aa..9ae82f54 100644
--- a/packages/playground/lib/core/data/mappers/deck_markdown_codec.dart
+++ b/packages/playground/lib/core/data/mappers/deck_markdown_codec.dart
@@ -5,20 +5,10 @@ import 'package:superdeck_core/superdeck_core.dart';
 class DeckMarkdownCodec {
   const DeckMarkdownCodec();
 
-  /// Parses [markdown] with the same pipeline used by the live preview loader.
+  /// Parses [markdown] with the same assembly the CLI build uses.
   List<Slide> decode(String markdown) {
     try {
-      final rawSlides = const MarkdownParser().parse(markdown);
-
-      return [
-        for (final raw in rawSlides)
-          Slide(
-            key: raw.key,
-            options: SlideOptions.parse(raw.frontmatter),
-            sections: const SectionParser().parse(raw.content),
-            comments: const CommentParser().parse(raw.content),
-          ),
-      ];
+      return assembleSlides(markdown);
     } catch (error, stackTrace) {
       Error.throwWithStackTrace(
         DeckFormatException(