generate-slides

generate-slides is a command for Claude Code from jamditis/claude-skills-journalism. It costs 13 tokens per session (432 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that generates a slide deck as a self-contained HTML page using a visual-explainer workflow. It plans a story sequence and can use diagrams, charts, and defined visual styles.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create presentation slides with an opening, context, detailed content, diagrams or data, and summary or next steps.
Why use it?
It turns a request for a presentation into a structured web-based deck without requiring a separate slide application.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the visual-explainer plugin — 1 skill, 8 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to create presentation slides with an opening, context, detailed content, diagrams or data, and summary or next steps.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/generate-slides
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install visual-explainer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 8 commands.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 13 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 432 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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 $0.00013 $0.00432
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00216
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00086
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00043

Measured 5d ago against content hash 034176a19973, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

generate-slides 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 5d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

visual-explainer/commands/generate-slides.md · 19 lines

What it actually says

Load the visual-explainer skill, then generate a slide deck for: $@

Follow the visual-explainer skill workflow. Read the reference template at ./templates/slide-deck.html and slide patterns at ./references/slide-patterns.md before generating. Also read ./references/css-patterns.md for shared patterns (Mermaid zoom controls, depth tiers, overflow protection) and ./references/libraries.md for Mermaid theming, Chart.js, and font pairings.

Slide output is always opt-in. Only generate slides when this command is invoked or the user explicitly asks for a slide deck.

Aesthetic: Pick a distinctive direction from the 4 slide presets in slide-patterns.md (Midnight Editorial, Warm Signal, Terminal Mono, Swiss Clean) or riff on the existing 8 aesthetic directions adapted for slides. Vary from previous decks. Commit to one direction and carry it through every slide.

Narrative structure: Slides have a temporal dimension, compose a story arc, not a list of sections. Start with impact (title), build context (overview), deep dive (content, diagrams, data), resolve (summary/next steps). Plan the slide sequence and assign a composition (centered, left-heavy, split, full-bleed) to each slide before writing HTML.

Visual richness: Proactively reach for visuals. If surf CLI is available (which surf), generate images for title slide backgrounds and full-bleed slides via surf gemini --generate-image. Add SVG decorative accents, inline sparklines, mini-charts, and small Mermaid diagrams where they make the story more compelling. Visual-first, text-second.

Compositional variety: Consecutive slides must vary their spatial approach. Alternate between centered, left-heavy, right-heavy, split, edge-aligned, and full-bleed. Three centered slides in a row means push one off-axis.

Write to ~/.agent/diagrams/ and open the result in the browser.

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. 5d ago First seen · 19 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A 034176a19973

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generate-slides is a command published in the GitHub repository jamditis/claude-skills-journalism (389 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 432 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-05.

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