convert-pptx

convert-pptx is a skill for Claude Code from digital-stoic-org/agent-skills. It costs 62 tokens per session (322 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A file-conversion tool that turns PowerPoint presentations, whose files end in .pptx, into Markdown text for use as language-model context.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to extract headings, tables, images, and other presentation structure into a Markdown file. It is not meant to recreate the PowerPoint.
Why use it?
It makes slide content easier to read, search, analyze, summarize, and question as text. The conversion uses scripts and does not send the presentation to a language model.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; positional $N argument.

Part of the convert plugin — 7 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to extract headings, tables, images, and other presentation structure into a Markdown file. It is not meant to recreate the PowerPoint.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/digital-stoic-org/agent-skills/convert-pptx
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.

Any agent
npx skills add digital-stoic-org/agent-skills --skill convert-pptx
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/digital-stoic-org/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install convert, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 322 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 6
    Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.
    Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00062 $0.00322
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00161
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00064
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00032

Measured 9d ago against content hash 1a3b85370f85, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

convert-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 9d ago.

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.

convert/skills/convert-pptx/SKILL.md · 31 lines

What it actually says

Convert PPTX → Markdown

Convert the PowerPoint file at $1 to clean markdown format optimized for LLM context.

Steps

  1. Install dependency: Use toolsmith:install-dependency skill to ensure markitdown is installed
  2. Parse arguments: Input file $1 (required), output dir $2 (optional, defaults to ./converted/)
  3. Prepare output dir: Create $2 if it doesn't exist
  4. Convert:
    source .venv/bin/activate && python -m markitdown "$1" -o "$OUTPUT_DIR/output.md"
    
  5. Report: Output location, file sizes, structure summary (slide count, headings, tables, images), any warnings

Goal

Extract clean markdown for LLM context — analysis, summarization, Q&A. NOT for round-tripping back to PPTX.

No content sent to any LLM during conversion (pure script-based extraction).

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. 9d ago First seen · 31 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 1a3b85370f85

Subscribe to this mod's changes

convert-pptx is a skill published in the GitHub repository digital-stoic-org/agent-skills (20 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 322 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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