presenton

Presenton — AI Presentation Generator

Presenton is an open-source, locally-run AI presentation generator. It creates professional slideshows from text prompts or uploaded documents, exports to PPTX and PDF, and exposes a built-in MCP server so agents can generate presentations programmatically.

When to use

• Use case 1: When the user asks to generate a presentation or slideshow on any topic
• Use case 2: When you need to convert a document, report, or prompt into structured slides
• Use case 3: When the user wants to export a presentation as PPTX or PDF
• Use case 4: When building agent workflows that produce presentation outputs via MCP
• Use case 5: When the user wants AI-generated presentations that run entirely on their own device

Required tools / APIs

• Docker (recommended) or Node.js LTS + Python 3.11 + uv for local dev
• One of: OpenAI API key, Google Gemini API key, Anthropic API key, or a local Ollama instance
• Optional image providers: DALL-E 3, Gemini Flash, Pexels, Pixabay, or ComfyUI

Install options:

# Docker (Linux/macOS) — recommended
docker run -it --name presenton \
  -p 5000:80 \
  -v "./app_data:/app_data" \
  ghcr.io/presenton/presenton:latest

# Docker (Windows PowerShell)
docker run -it --name presenton `
  -p 5000:80 `
  -v "${PWD}\app_data:/app_data" `
  ghcr.io/presenton/presenton:latest

# With OpenAI + DALL-E 3 (no UI key entry needed)
docker run -it --name presenton \
  -p 5000:80 \
  -e LLM="openai" \
  -e OPENAI_API_KEY="<your-key>" \
  -e IMAGE_PROVIDER="dall-e-3" \
  -e CAN_CHANGE_KEYS="false" \
  -v "./app_data:/app_data" \
  ghcr.io/presenton/presenton:latest

Skills

generate_presentation_via_api

Generate a presentation by sending a prompt to the Presenton REST API.

# Start Presenton first (see install above), then call the API
curl -fsS --max-time 60 \
  -X POST "http://localhost:5000/api/v1/ppt/generate" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"prompt": "Introduction to Quantum Computing", "n_slides": 8}'

# The response includes a presentation ID; download PPTX with:
PPTX_PATH=$(curl -s "http://localhost:5000/api/v1/ppt/generate" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"prompt": "Introduction to Quantum Computing", "n_slides": 8}' \
  | jq -r '.pptx_url')
curl -s "http://localhost:5000${PPTX_PATH}" -o presentation.pptx