marp-slides

marp-slides is a skill for Claude Code from Mathews-Tom/armory. It costs 81 tokens per session (1,462 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for writing slide decks in Markdown, a plain-text document format, using the MARP slide system. It can export those decks to PDF, PowerPoint, or standalone HTML files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create text-based presentations, apply CSS themes, add charts or dashboards, and produce PDF, PPTX, or HTML outputs with marp-cli.
Why use it?
It keeps presentation source files easy to edit, review, store in Git, and regenerate with consistent styling.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the armory plugin — 85 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to create text-based presentations, apply CSS themes, add charts or dashboards, and produce PDF, PPTX, or HTML outputs with marp-cli.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mathews-tom/armory/marp-slides
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 Mathews-Tom/armory --skill marp-slides
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Mathews-Tom/armory

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install armory, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 85 skills.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,462 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: 3 findings, up to high

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 →

  • high Prompt Injection · line 61
    Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
  • high Anti-Refusal · line 87
    Skill instructs the agent to omit warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Stripping safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.
    Fix: Remove instructions that suppress warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Let the agent surface safety-relevant caveats to the user.
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 80
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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 $0.00081 $0.01462
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00731
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00292
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00146

Measured 8d ago against content hash 736cd852217e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

marp-slides 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 8d 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.

skills/marp-slides/SKILL.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MARP Slides Skill

Author slide decks as plain Markdown using the MARP ecosystem (Marpit + Marp Core + marp-cli) and export to PDF, PowerPoint, or self-contained HTML. Decks are single .md files, git-friendly, and themable with plain CSS.

When This Skill Triggers

  • User asks for a MARP deck by name
  • User wants "markdown slides" or "slides from markdown"
  • User wants a .md file they can commit to git and regenerate deterministically
  • User mentions marp-cli, Marpit directives, or asks to theme slides with CSS
  • User wants CLI-exportable PDF or PPTX sourced from a text document

When NOT to Use This Skill

User wants Use instead
Reveal.js / browser-native HTML presentation with scroll nav html-presentation
Edit a binary .pptx with native PowerPoint features (animations, transitions set in PowerPoint) document-skills:pptx
Static poster or single-page visual concept-to-image
Animated explainer video concept-to-video

Step 0: Gather Requirements

Before generating anything, confirm in a single message. Use defaults silently for anything the user declines to specify — never ask twice.

Parameter Options Default
Export target pdf, pptx, html, all pdf
Theme dark-dashboard, light-editorial, or MARP built-in (default, gaia, uncover) dark-dashboard
Aspect ratio 16:9, 4:3 16:9
Slide count integer or auto auto
Visual density minimal (text-first), standard (mixed), dashboard (charts + metric cards) standard
Branding logo path, accent color hex none

Step 1: Load References On-Demand

Do NOT read all reference files up front. Based on user intent, load only what is needed. This keeps the skill within armory's token-efficiency budget.

User intent Load
Any deck (always required) references/DIRECTIVES.md — Marpit directives, frontmatter schema, image syntax
Custom theme or CSS styling references/THEMES.mddark-dashboard and light-editorial starter CSS
Charts, dashboards, metric cards, SVG visuals references/COMPONENTS.md — SVG chart recipes, cards, status tags, icons
Export to PDF/PPTX/HTML or image references/EXPORT.md — marp-cli flags, Chrome dependency, --html flag
User wants a concrete example to match references/examples/ — 3 curated decks: dashboard.md, editorial.md, technical.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 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. 8d ago First seen · 94 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 736cd852217e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

marp-slides is a skill published in the GitHub repository Mathews-Tom/armory (316 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 1,462 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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