A guide for working with PowerPoint files, whose .pptx format stores presentation slides. It covers reading, extracting text, inspecting slide images, editing existing decks, and creating new ones.

Use it to read, analyze, modify, or create slide decks, pitch decks, and other PowerPoint presentations.

It provides a consistent process for handling slide files, including templates and the underlying file structure. This helps avoid editing the wrong parts or producing incomplete presentations.

How kaltinril/Kernsmith configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to kaltinril/Kernsmith. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kaltinril/Kernsmith/main/.claude/skills/pptx/SKILL.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kaltinril/Kernsmith

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 152 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 2,368 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 83% copy Near-identical to another mod 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00152	$0.02368
Opus 5.5	$0.00061	$0.00947
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00030	$0.00474
Haiku 4.5	$0.00015	$0.00237

Measured 1mo ago against content hash e5b0df918cbe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 16 executable files (scripts/__init__.py, scripts/add_slide.py, scripts/clean.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.

Origin

This is a copy

83% identical to pptx — 25 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.claude/skills/pptx/SKILL.md · 233 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 233 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PPTX Skill

Quick Reference

Task	Guide
Read/analyze content	`python -m markitdown presentation.pptx`
Edit or create from template	Read editing.md
Create from scratch	Read pptxgenjs.md

Reading Content

# Text extraction
python -m markitdown presentation.pptx

# Visual overview
python scripts/thumbnail.py presentation.pptx

# Raw XML
python scripts/office/unpack.py presentation.pptx unpacked/

Editing Workflow

Read editing.md for full details.

Analyze template with thumbnail.py
Unpack → manipulate slides → edit content → clean → pack

Creating from Scratch

Read pptxgenjs.md for full details.

Use when no template or reference presentation is available.

Design Ideas

Don't create boring slides. Plain bullets on a white background won't impress anyone. Consider ideas from this list for each slide.

Before Starting

Pick a bold, content-informed color palette: The palette should feel designed for THIS topic. If swapping your colors into a completely different presentation would still "work," you haven't made specific enough choices.
Dominance over equality: One color should dominate (60-70% visual weight), with 1-2 supporting tones and one sharp accent. Never give all colors equal weight.
Dark/light contrast: Dark backgrounds for title + conclusion slides, light for content ("sandwich" structure). Or commit to dark throughout for a premium feel.
Commit to a visual motif: Pick ONE distinctive element and repeat it — rounded image frames, icons in colored circles, thick single-side borders. Carry it across every slide.

Color Palettes

Choose colors that match your topic — don't default to generic blue. Use these palettes as inspiration:

Theme	Primary	Secondary	Accent
Midnight Executive	`1E2761` (navy)	`CADCFC` (ice blue)	`FFFFFF` (white)
Forest & Moss	`2C5F2D` (forest)	`97BC62` (moss)	`F5F5F5` (cream)
Coral Energy	`F96167` (coral)	`F9E795` (gold)	`2F3C7E` (navy)
Warm Terracotta	`B85042` (terracotta)	`E7E8D1` (sand)	`A7BEAE` (sage)
Ocean Gradient	`065A82` (deep blue)	`1C7293` (teal)	`21295C` (midnight)
Charcoal Minimal	`36454F` (charcoal)	`F2F2F2` (off-white)	`212121` (black)
Teal Trust	`028090` (teal)	`00A896` (seafoam)	`02C39A` (mint)
Berry & Cream	`6D2E46` (berry)	`A26769` (dusty rose)	`ECE2D0` (cream)
Sage Calm	`84B59F` (sage)	`69A297` (eucalyptus)	`50808E` (slate)
Cherry Bold	`990011` (cherry)	`FCF6F5` (off-white)	`2F3C7E` (navy)

Read the full file on GitHub · 233 lines

Files

What ships with it

58 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.

1mo ago First seen · 233 lines · 152 tokens per session scan A e5b0df918cbe

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pptx is a skill published in the GitHub repository kaltinril/Kernsmith (11 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 152 tokens to every session and 2,368 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 83% identical to pptx, differing in 25 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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