pptx

A toolkit for creating, reading, inspecting, and editing PowerPoint presentation files in .pptx format.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating presentations, pitch decks, and slides; reading or extracting presentation content; editing, combining, or splitting .pptx files; and converting presentations to PDF or image previews.
Why use it?
It gives a coding agent a defined workflow for handling slide files, including extracting their text and checking their visual layout.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 103 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,098 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 $0.00103 $0.02098
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.01049
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00420
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00210

Measured 2d ago against content hash 40cfc3c2211b, 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.

mateclaw-server/src/main/resources/skills/pptx/SKILL.md · 250 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 250 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Important: All scripts/ paths are relative to this skill directory. Use run_skill_script tool to execute scripts, or run with: cd {this_skill_dir} && python scripts/...

PPTX Skill

Prerequisites

  • markitdown[pptx]: text extraction from presentations
  • Pillow: thumbnail grid generation
  • pptxgenjs (npm install -g pptxgenjs): creating presentations from scratch
  • LibreOffice (soffice): presentation-to-PDF conversion
  • pdftoppm (poppler-utils): PDF-to-image conversion for thumbnail/visual workflows
  • If pdftoppm is unavailable, a Python fallback path may use pdf2image.

Quick Reference

Task Guide
Read/analyze content python -m markitdown presentation.pptx
Edit or create from template Unpack → manipulate → pack workflow
Create from scratch Use pptxgenjs (npm)

Reading Content

# Text extraction
python -m markitdown presentation.pptx

# Visual overview (thumbnail grid)
python scripts/thumbnail.py presentation.pptx

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

Editing Workflow

  1. Analyze template with thumbnail.py
  2. Unpack: python scripts/office/unpack.py presentation.pptx unpacked/
  3. Add/remove slides: python scripts/add_slide.py unpacked/ --source <slide_num>
  4. Edit XML content in unpacked/ppt/slides/
  5. Clean orphans: python scripts/clean.py unpacked/
  6. Pack: python scripts/office/pack.py unpacked/ output.pptx --original presentation.pptx

Adding Slides

# Duplicate an existing slide
python scripts/add_slide.py unpacked/ --source 2

# Add from layout template
python scripts/add_slide.py unpacked/ --layout 1

Cleaning Up

# Remove orphaned slides, unreferenced media, update content types
python scripts/clean.py unpacked/

Creating Thumbnails

# Create thumbnail grid of all slides
python scripts/thumbnail.py presentation.pptx

# Customize output
python scripts/thumbnail.py presentation.pptx --output thumbs.png --cols 4

Read the full file on GitHub · 250 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 · 250 lines · 103 tokens per session scan A 40cfc3c2211b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pptx is a skill published in the GitHub repository mateaix/mateclaw (1,061 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 103 tokens to every session and 2,098 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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