generate-slides

generate-slides is a command for Claude Code from theclaymethod/artifacture. It costs 9 tokens per session (530 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for creating slide decks as standalone HTML pages, with vertical or magazine-style horizontal layouts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to generate visual presentations from slide-deck content and export them as HTML files.
Why use it?
It turns slide content into a viewable HTML presentation while keeping an editable MDX or TSX source for revisions.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the visual-explainer plugin — 1 skill, 13 commands, 11 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to generate visual presentations from slide-deck content and export them as HTML files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/theclaymethod/artifacture/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/theclaymethod/artifacture

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install visual-explainer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 13 commands, 11 agents.

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Per session 9 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 530 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 $0.00009 $0.00530
Opus 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00212
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00002 $0.00106
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00053

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 95ea439ab307, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 1mo 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.

plugins/visual-explainer/commands/generate-slides.md · 26 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 26 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Load SKILL.md and cards/slide-deck.md, then present: $@ Slides are opt-in: generate them only when requested or when this command is invoked.

Compose

  1. Establish the audience, central claim, and source evidence. Use available context and defaults; consult references/clarify.md only for a material unresolved choice.
  2. Plan a sequence in which each slide advances the argument. Start with the conclusion or question, supply evidence, and end with the decision or action the brief requires.
  3. Use SlideDeck and Slide. Default to vertical orientation and Lieflat-inspired. Set orientation="horizontal" only for --magazine or an explicit horizontal-magazine request.
  4. Choose composition from the content: comparison, sequence, diagram, data, or focused prose. Preserve reading order and readable labels. Split crowded slides; do not shrink text to fit.

Variation should follow the argument. Do not prescribe dark covers, tint rotation, giant statistics, decorative images, repeated kickers, or a fixed number of card layouts. Use images only when they add evidence or explain something the text cannot.

Read references/slide-patterns.md only for custom mechanics, magazine pacing, or export details. Read references/deck-navigation-shell.md for bespoke fixed-stage navigation and drill-downs.

Deliver

Author MDX/TSX beside ~/.agent/diagrams/<slug>.html (<slug>-magazine.html in magazine mode), export, and complete references/verification.md. Open the result and report source, HTML, final report, and any incomplete output.

  • --poster-export: also export individual slides as PNGs using references/poster.md → "Slide decks as per-slide posters". Use browser capture or the available poster path; report any export that cannot be completed. Save to ~/.agent/diagrams/<slug>/slides/.
  • --pdf: use node <skill-dir>/scripts/export-slides-pdf.mjs <input.html> <output.pdf>. The exporter captures each slide separately. It requires Playwright and Chromium; see references/slide-patterns.md → "PDF export" for setup and flags. Report missing dependencies instead of silently dropping the PDF.
  • --no-ask: use the request and documented defaults without optional clarification.

Read the full file on GitHub · 26 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. 1mo ago Changed · -32 lines · -14 tokens per session 95ea439ab307
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 58 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A ddb80a98d0a4

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generate-slides is a command published in the GitHub repository theclaymethod/artifacture (3 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 9 tokens to every session and 530 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-31.