latex-to-pptx

latex-to-pptx is a skill for Claude Code from DaRL-GenAI/instructional_agents-skills. It costs 83 tokens per session (776 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A converter that turns Beamer LaTeX slide source into an editable PowerPoint file. Beamer is a LaTeX system for creating presentation slides.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to export a .tex presentation to a .pptx deck.
Why use it?
It helps when slides written as code need to be opened and changed in PowerPoint or Keynote instead of remaining in LaTeX or a static PDF.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable.

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 instructional-agents plugin — 4 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to export a .tex presentation to a .pptx deck.

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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 DaRL-GenAI/instructional_agents-skills
Claude Code
/plugin install instructional-agents

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install instructional-agents, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills.

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Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 776 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 $0.00083 $0.00776
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00388
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00155
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00078

Measured 12d ago against content hash 5949ef76e3e2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

latex-to-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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/convert.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/latex-to-pptx/SKILL.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

LaTeX → PPTX Conversion

Converts a Beamer .tex file into a native, editable PowerPoint deck using the instructional_agents parser plus pptxgenjs.

When to invoke this skill

  • User has a .tex file (Beamer or Beamer-compatible) and wants a .pptx
  • User asks to "export LaTeX slides to PowerPoint / Keynote"
  • User wants to edit generated slides in PowerPoint (vs. getting a static PDF)

Do not invoke this for:

  • Generating new slides from scratch → use course-generate
  • Compiling LaTeX to PDF → use latex-compile

Prerequisites

Before running, verify:

  1. Python 3.11+ with instructional-agents installed:
    pip show instructional-agents || pip install instructional-agents
    
  2. Node.js with pptxgenjs:
    node -e "require('pptxgenjs')" 2>/dev/null || npm install -g pptxgenjs
    

If either is missing, tell the user and offer to install.

Usage

Run the wrapper script with the input .tex path. The .pptx is written next to the source unless --output is given.

python3 "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/latex-to-pptx/scripts/convert.py" \
  <input.tex> [--output <output.pptx>]

Arguments

Arg Required Description
<input.tex> yes Path to the Beamer .tex file
--output <path> no Output .pptx path (default: same dir, same stem)

Example

python3 "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/latex-to-pptx/scripts/convert.py" \
  ~/courses/ml/chapter1.tex
# → ~/courses/ml/chapter1.pptx

Supported LaTeX constructs

itemize, enumerate, block, alertblock, code listings (lstlisting), inline & display math, columns, tikz (rendered as placeholder boxes).

Output

An editable .pptx — every text object, bullet list, and code block is a native PowerPoint shape, not an embedded image. Safe to edit in PowerPoint, Keynote, or Google Slides.

Troubleshooting

  • "pptxgenjs not found"npm install -g pptxgenjs
  • Math doesn't renderpptxgenjs doesn't support native LaTeX math; the skill emits math as plain text. For math-heavy decks, keep the PDF.
  • \include / \input → flatten first with latexpand input.tex > flat.tex then run the skill on flat.tex.

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 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. 12d ago First seen · 84 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A 5949ef76e3e2

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latex-to-pptx is a skill published in the GitHub repository DaRL-GenAI/instructional_agents-skills (1 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 776 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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