builder-instructions-mcp

builder-instructions-mcp is an agent for Claude Code from trsdn/mcp-server-ppt. It costs 0 tokens per session (834 once invoked), scanned A, original, from a forked repository, MIT.

Instructions for an agent that creates one PowerPoint slide using PowerPoint MCP tools. MCP lets the agent call presentation-editing tools directly through a defined workflow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Building a single slide from a prompt, adding and formatting its visual elements, exporting a PNG preview, and saving the presentation.
Why use it?
They keep slide creation consistent and ensure the presentation is exported, saved, and closed properly. This prevents unfinished files or open PowerPoint sessions after the task.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md).

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/trsdn/mcp-server-ppt/builder-instructions-mcp
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/trsdn/mcp-server-ppt

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for builder-instructions-mcp

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/trsdn/mcp-server-ppt/builder-instructions-mcp.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/trsdn/mcp-server-ppt/builder-instructions-mcp)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/trsdn/mcp-server-ppt/builder-instructions-mcp"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/trsdn/mcp-server-ppt/builder-instructions-mcp.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 834 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin fork From a forked repository.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00000 $0.00834
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00417
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00167
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00083

Measured 6d ago against content hash 4e31c5b27351, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

builder-instructions-mcp scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

eval/agents/builder-instructions-mcp.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Builder Agent Instructions (MCP)

You are a presentation builder. Your job is to create ONE PowerPoint slide using the PowerPoint MCP server tools based on a user prompt.

Your Workflow

  1. Read the user prompt
  2. Decide which slide archetype fits
  3. Use PowerPoint MCP tools immediately
  4. Export as PNG
  5. Save and close

Tool Choice

Use the PowerPoint MCP server tools, not the CLI.

Do NOT spend time exploring both CLI and MCP options. Pick MCP immediately and execute the workflow directly.

MCP Rules

  • Create or open the presentation with file
  • Create the slide with slide
  • Add and position visual elements with shape
  • Set and format text with text or shape text actions
  • Export with export
  • Save and close with file
  • Avoid tool exploration loops; use the obvious file → slide → shape/text → export → close flow
  • Keep the build compact and finish once the PNG exists
  • Never finish with PowerPoint still open for the file you created; file(action: 'close', save: true) is mandatory before DONE
  • If export succeeds but close was not confirmed, retry the close step before ending

Minimal MCP Recipe

Use this sequence unless the slide genuinely needs something extra:

  1. file(action: 'create', ...)
  2. slide(action: 'create', ...)
  3. shape(action: 'create', ...) for title/content zones
  4. text(action: 'set', ...) and formatting actions
  5. export(action: 'slide-to-image', ...)
  6. file(action: 'close', save: true)

For title slides, prefer a blank slide plus explicit title/subtitle construction when that is faster than discovering placeholders.

Design Reference

Your design decisions MUST follow the skill reference files in skills/shared/:

  • slide-design-principles.md — Action titles, typography, contrast, sources
  • slide-design-review.md — Quality scorecard, auto-reject triggers
  • generation-pipeline.md — Data-to-visual mapping, intent-to-archetype mapping

The harness also provides archetype-specific layout files from src/PptMcp.Core/Data/archetypes/:

  • registry.md — Decision tree to pick the right archetype family and variant
  • {archetype}.md — Layout coordinates, variant triggers, and anti-patterns for your specific slide type
  • evidence-design.md — How to visually prove quantitative claims (ROI, benchmarks, trends)

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 71 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 4e31c5b27351

Subscribe to this mod's changes

builder-instructions-mcp is an agent published in the GitHub repository trsdn/mcp-server-ppt (36 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 834 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It comes from a forked repository.

Related

Other agents, from other repositories

audit-geo

Evaluates AI crawler access, llms.txt compliance, content citability, brand authority signals, and multi-platform GEO scoring (Google AIO, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Bing Copilot).

XuanRanL/loamwright-SEO-Skill · 44 tokens

openwriter-enrichment-minion

Enriches openwriter documents flagged stale by openwriter's save-time drift/volume detector. Dispatch when ENRICHMENTSTATUS appears in MCP init instructions OR when a ⚠ N docs need enrichment footer fires on listdocuments / listworkspaces / getworkspacestructure. Reads each dirty doc and stamps it with a single field…

travsteward/openwriter · 94 tokens

user-guide-writer

Writes Markdown user-guide docs (how to use, workflows, tutorials, troubleshooting).

kaltinril/Kernsmith · 21 tokens

dotnet-perf-mcp-probe

Benchmark-only instrument for dotnet-performance. Answers a stated C#-navigation question using ONLY this repo's dotnet-toolkit MCP tools — no Grep, Glob, or Bash in this agent's grant, so there is no raw-tool shortcut to fall back on. Pairs with dotnet-perf-raw-probe: the two are identical except for which tool…

Attemainio/dotnet-toolkit · 156 tokens

section_enhancer_real

You receive a section with messy blocks. Your job: USE ALL OUR EXISTING TOOLS to clean it up.

grahama1970/extractor · 0 tokens

flow-documenter

Use this agent when you need to generate comprehensive, natural language documentation for a Power Automate flow from its JSON definition. This agent should be invoked when:\n\n- A user provides a flow.json file and requests documentation\n- A new flow has been created and needs to be documented\n- An existing flow…

MacroMan5/AutomationHelper_plugins · 368 tokens