swapping-pptx-templates

swapping-pptx-templates is a skill for Claude Code from augchan42/inkstone. It costs 79 tokens per session (1,147 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for rebuilding a PowerPoint deck's content in a different template or visual theme. It treats the job as a slide-by-slide rebuild rather than simply moving existing shapes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when applying one presentation's template to another deck, including decks with custom diagrams, baked-in background images, or Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other non-ASCII text.
Why use it?
PowerPoint templates often do not contain matching layouts for custom diagrams, and direct copying can preserve the old design. The guide also addresses problems with bilingual and non-Latin text.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the inkstone plugin — 21 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it when applying one presentation's template to another deck, including decks with custom diagrams, baked-in background images, or Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other non-ASCII text.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add augchan42/inkstone
Claude Code
/plugin install inkstone

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install inkstone, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,147 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 $0.00079 $0.01147
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00574
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00229
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00115

Measured 7d ago against content hash 4eb94d948a11, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

swapping-pptx-templates 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 7d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/audit_cjk.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/swapping-pptx-templates/SKILL.md · 83 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Swapping PPTX Templates

Overview

Moving a deck's content into a different template's look. PowerPoint has no "reflow into another template" operation, so this is a slide-by-slide rebuild in raw OOXML. This skill is the judgment layer on top of the mechanical workflow.

REQUIRED BACKGROUND: Use the official pptx skill (Anthropic document-skills plugin) for the unpack → add_slide → edit → clean → pack mechanics and its scripts. This skill covers the four things that skill does NOT warn about, each of which caused a real defect.

The four non-obvious rules

1. Redesign, don't relocate

A "template" usually ships 3-5 generic layouts (title / banded-header / framed-card / blank), not equivalents of the source's custom diagrams. Copy-pasting shapes drags the source's colors and geometry into the new deck. Instead: extract each slide's content (text, data, image refs) and rebuild the visual from scratch in the template's palette, using its layouts only as background/chrome. Match content type to the closest layout; layer plain text boxes + shapes on top for anything beyond title+body.

2. Never hand-type CJK (or any non-ASCII) as numeric XML entities

Deriving &#20303;... decimal codepoints from memory for Chinese/Japanese/Korean text is the single highest-risk step. Each wrong codepoint decodes to a valid but wrong character (圈→圭, 驗→鰓, 輪→載), so pack/validate never errors and the corruption is silent.

  • Get ground truth: python -m markitdown source.pptx > source_text.md
  • Insert CJK by script substitution from that file (str.replace), never by typing entities or characters into an edit by hand.
  • Before packing, run the audit (path in Claude Code shown; elsewhere use the repo path):
AUDIT="$CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT/skills/swapping-pptx-templates/scripts/audit_cjk.py"
python "$AUDIT" source_text.md <build_dir>   # exit 1 = suspicious chars, stop and fix

It flags any CJK char in the build absent from the source (near-zero false positives).

Read the full file on GitHub · 83 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 7d ago First seen · 83 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A 4eb94d948a11

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swapping-pptx-templates is a skill published in the GitHub repository augchan42/inkstone (4 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 1,147 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.

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