pptx

A set of tools for reading and inspecting PowerPoint .pptx files, including their slide text, speaker notes, images, and underlying XML data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to extract slide text or notes, create slide overview images, render selected slides, and inspect the raw file structure. It does not create or edit presentations.
Why use it?
It lets you examine an existing presentation without opening and checking every slide manually.

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/decocms/studio/pptx
Any agent
npx skills add decocms/studio --skill pptx
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/decocms/studio

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 826 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 $0.00041 $0.00826
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00413
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00165
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00083

Measured 2d ago against content hash 5d5c6bb03f77, 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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 5 executable files (_office.py, extract.py, rasterize.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.

packages/sandbox/image/skills/pptx/SKILL.md · 89 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

pptx — PowerPoint presentations

Reading and inspection of .pptx files. Editing and creation are not yet supported.

Making a presentation, slide deck, or "slides"? This is NOT the skill — use the slides skill (org/public/core/slides/SKILL.md), which authors HTML decks with a live, editable preview. Reach for pptx ONLY when the user explicitly works with a PowerPoint .pptx file — reading one they uploaded, or when they specifically ask for .pptx output (not yet supported here).

Quick reference

Task Command
Plain-text dump pptx-extract <file.pptx>
Plain-text + speaker notes pptx-extract --notes <file.pptx>
Visual overview (grid image) pptx-thumbnail <file.pptx>
One slide at full resolution pptx-rasterize --pages 3 <file.pptx>
Several slides pptx-rasterize --pages 1,3-5 <file.pptx>
Raw XML inspection pptx-unpack <file.pptx>

Every command writes its output next to the input file and prints the output path(s) on stdout.

Reading text

pptx-extract prints each slide as a ## Slide N section followed by the visible text. Speaker notes are excluded by default; pass --notes to include them under a ### Notes subsection per slide.

Visual overview

pptx-thumbnail produces two artifacts:

  • A composite grid image at <input-stem>.thumbnail.jpg — 4-column grid with a small slide-number overlay on each cell. Suitable for a single multimodal read to get the shape of the deck.
  • A directory <input-stem>.slides/ containing per-slide JPGs at the same resolution. When a slide in the grid looks interesting, read slide-NNN.jpg directly instead of re-running pptx-thumbnail.

To actually see the rendered image, call the read tool on the path pptx-thumbnail printed:

Read the full file on GitHub · 89 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files 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. 2d ago First seen · 89 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 5d5c6bb03f77

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pptx is a skill published in the GitHub repository decocms/studio (402 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 826 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.