pptx

A skill for creating, editing, reading, and designing PowerPoint presentations, which are slide decks stored in .pptx files. It supports both the presentation content and its visual structure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create pitch decks and stakeholder presentations, edit existing slides, extract slide content, design charts and visual layouts, and convert presentations to PDF.
Why use it?
It helps organize information so each slide has a clear purpose and remains understandable when viewed without a presenter. It also provides practical ways to update existing decks or convert them to PDF.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/code-saurabh/openskills/pptx
Any agent
npx skills add CODE-SAURABH/OpenSkills --skill pptx
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CODE-SAURABH/OpenSkills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,969 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00086 $0.02969
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.01484
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00594
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00297

Measured yesterday against content hash 2da0a668ba12, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pptx 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 yesterday.

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.

pptx/SKILL.md · 320 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 320 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PowerPoint Presentation (.pptx)

A .pptx file is a ZIP archive of XML files. You can create, edit, and read them programmatically. Choose the right approach for the task:

Task Approach
Create a new deck pptxgenjs (Node) or python-pptx (Python)
Edit an existing deck Unzip → edit slide XML → rezip
Read content from a deck markitdown deck.pptx or unzip and parse XML
Convert to PDF LibreOffice headless

Presentation Principles

  • Every slide has one job. A slide that makes three points makes zero. Split ruthlessly.
  • Text-only slides are forgettable. Every slide needs at least one visual element — chart, image, icon, data callout, or diagram.
  • The deck must work without the speaker. Async decks (sent via email, read without a presenter) need more text and context than live-presentation decks.
  • Visual hierarchy over bullet points. A large number + small label communicates faster than a sentence. A 2x2 grid communicates relationships better than a list.
  • Commit to a visual direction and hold it. One font pair. One color palette. One layout style. Inconsistency signals lack of polish.
  • AI slop is obvious. Cream backgrounds, accent stripes along card edges, Inter/Roboto with no rationale, blue CTA buttons, centered body text — these are trust killers. Avoid all of them.

Step 0: Before Creating

Ask the user:

  1. What is the deck for? (investor pitch, all-hands, client presentation, technical review, sales demo)
  2. Who is the audience? (technical, executive, external client, general team)
  3. How many slides? Or: what content needs to be covered?
  4. Brand constraints? (specific colors, fonts, logo to include)
  5. Output format? (.pptx to edit further, or PDF to send)
  6. Presenting live or sending async? (changes text density and speaker notes needs)

Creating with pptxgenjs (Node/TypeScript)

Setup

# pptxgenjs is often pre-installed — try require first
node -e "require('pptxgenjs')" 2>/dev/null && echo "installed" || npm install pptxgenjs

Read the full file on GitHub · 320 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. yesterday First seen · 320 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A 2da0a668ba12

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pptx is a skill published in the GitHub repository CODE-SAURABH/OpenSkills (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 2,969 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.