What is dial-pptx-mcp CLAUDE.md?

A set of instructions for working on a remote service that creates PowerPoint presentations through an MCP server, with multi-user state, DIAL file handling, and visual checks.

Use it when installing, testing, or modifying the presentation-generation server and its DIAL integration.

It explains the repository’s architecture, conventions, setup, and test commands so an agent can make changes consistently.

How photonn/dial-pptx-mcp configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to photonn/dial-pptx-mcp. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/photonn/dial-pptx-mcp/main/CLAUDE.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/photonn/dial-pptx-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 7,380 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 7,380 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.07380	$0.07380
Opus 5.5	$0.02952	$0.02952
Sonnet 5.5	$0.01476	$0.01476
Haiku 4.5	$0.00738	$0.00738

Measured 28d ago against content hash cd9233d52711, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dial-pptx-mcp CLAUDE.md 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 28d 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.

CLAUDE.md · 290 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 290 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

What this is

A remote, multi-tenant PowerPoint-generation MCP server for EPAM AI DIAL. It is a fork of GongRzhe/Office-PowerPoint-MCP-Server (MIT) with full upstream history preserved. The ~30 upstream content/formatting tools are essentially unchanged; this project adds the remote-transport, multi-tenant state, DIAL file I/O, and visual-QA layers. docs/UPSTREAM_README.md is the upstream tool reference; README.md documents this project's configuration and DIAL integration.

Upstream-inherited code (tools/, utils/, most of ppt_mcp_server.py) follows a different style and quality bar than the DIAL layers (state.py, dial_client.py, visual_qa.py, visual_fix.py). Match the file you are editing.

Commands

uv venv --python 3.12 .venv && uv pip install -r requirements.txt

.venv/bin/python -m unittest discover -s tests -v          # all tests
.venv/bin/python -m unittest tests.test_visual_gate -v     # one module
.venv/bin/python -m unittest tests.test_state.TestPresentationStore.test_ttl_expiry -v  # one test

.venv/bin/python spike/fidelity_spike.py <template.pptx> [out.pptx]  # template-fidelity check
.venv/bin/python spike/http_client_check.py                          # transport smoke test

.venv/bin/python ppt_mcp_server.py                    # stdio (local MCP clients)
.venv/bin/python ppt_mcp_server.py -t http --host 0.0.0.0 -p 8000    # /mcp endpoint
docker build -t dial-pptx-mcp . && docker run -p 8000:8000 dial-pptx-mcp

There is no linter or formatter configured. CI (.github/workflows/ci.yml) runs the unittest suite on Python 3.10, 3.12 and 3.14 (3.14 is what the Docker image ships), the fidelity spike against the bundled demo deck, and a Docker build. Tests requiring LibreOffice self-skip when soffice is absent, so a green local run may still fail in CI — install LibreOffice or check the CI result.

Read the full file on GitHub · 290 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.

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dial-pptx-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository photonn/dial-pptx-mcp (1 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 7,380 tokens to every session, about $0.0295 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.

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