pptx

A guide for working with PowerPoint presentation files, including reading, creating, editing, and checking slide layouts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it whenever a .pptx file must be analyzed, edited, or created, including presentations made from a template or from scratch.
Why use it?
It provides task-specific procedures for extracting slide text, inspecting visual layout, modifying existing presentations, and building new ones.

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/kdaip/echobot/pptx
Any agent
npx skills add KdaiP/EchoBot --skill pptx
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/KdaiP/EchoBot

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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. Scan, not verified.
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00152 $0.02368
Opus 5 $0.00076 $0.01184
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00474
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00237

Measured 2d ago against content hash e5b0df918cbe, 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 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.

echobot/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.

  1. Analyze template with thumbnail.py
  2. 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.

  1. 2d 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 KdaiP/EchoBot (628 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 152 tokens to every session and 2,368 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 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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