slideshot-mcp

slideshot-mcp is a cursor rule for Cursor from 06ketan/slideshot. It costs 1,691 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Usage rules for Slideshot’s six-tool system for creating, editing, rendering, and diagnosing slide decks. Rendering means turning slide HTML into files such as PDF, PNG, WebP, or PPTX.

In plain words
What is it for?
For discovering themes, creating slides, making partial HTML or style edits, exporting presentations, and checking browser-rendering problems.
Why use it?
They define the required order for new decks and the appropriate tool for small edits, reducing avoidable regeneration and workflow errors.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit For discovering themes, creating slides, making partial HTML or style edits, exporting presentations, and checking browser-rendering problems.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/06ketan/slideshot/slideshot-mcp
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/06ketan/slideshot

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 1,691 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,691 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.01691 $0.01691
Opus 5 $0.00846 $0.00846
Sonnet 5 $0.00338 $0.00338
Haiku 4.5 $0.00169 $0.00169

Measured 9d ago against content hash a393b758b347, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

slideshot-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 9d 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.

.cursor/rules/slideshot-mcp.mdc · 134 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 134 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Slideshot MCP v4.4.0 — Tool Usage Guide

6 Tools

Tool When to use
discover_themes MANDATORY first for slide creation workflow. Returns themes, orientation presets, token modes, format options, and persisted user preferences.
list_themes Idempotent theme catalog read with no discovery gates. Use when you just need the theme list.
create_slides Create slides. Use mode=default unless user explicitly chose token_saver.
edit_slides Partial edits to existing HTML — replace_slide, patch_css, patch_class, swap_token. Use this instead of regenerating the whole deck for small iterations (saves tokens).
render_slides Render HTML to PDF/WebP/PNG/PPTX. Accepts html string or htmlPath. Supports width, height, selector, scale, webpQuality, orientation, pptxMode, pptxFilename, slideRange. Can be called directly with an existing htmlPath (bypasses gates).
health_check Diagnose Puppeteer/Chromium issues.

Two Workflows

A. Full slide-creation workflow (no existing HTML)

1. discover_themes → present ALL native selector prompts to the user
   ── theme, topic, orientation, token mode (recommend Default), format
   ── DO NOT render themes as markdown list — use selectors only
   ── DO NOT ask how many slides — AI decides based on topic
   ── WAIT for user answers

2. Show DATA OUTLINE — bullet list of proposed slides (no tool call)
   ── Present the outlineConfirm selector: "Looks good, continue" / "I want to make changes"
   ── WAIT for user to pick or type response. Loop until approved.

3. create_slides(mode, theme, orientation, html/slides) → htmlPath
   ── Use mode=default unless user explicitly chose token_saver
   ── STOP: Show htmlPath as code preview artifact
   ── Ask user to confirm. DO NOT call render_slides in this turn.

4. User confirms → render_slides(htmlPath, formats, scale, pptxMode...) → files on disk

B. Direct render (user has existing HTML file)

1. render_slides(htmlPath=<path to existing file>, formats, width, height, scale...) → files on disk
   ── No discover_themes or create_slides needed
   ── Gates are bypassed when htmlPath points to an existing file
   ── Also accepts html string directly instead of htmlPath
   ── Supports all render params: selector, width, height, scale, webpQuality, orientation, pptxMode, pptxFilename, slideRange

Read the full file on GitHub · 134 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. 9d ago First seen · 134 lines · 1,691 tokens per session scan A a393b758b347

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slideshot-mcp is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository 06ketan/slideshot (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,691 tokens to every session, about $0.0085 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 2026-08-31.