present

A workflow for turning a completed slide design or presentation-generation script into validated PowerPoint and PDF files. It can also update an existing deck while limiting changes to the requested slides.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when generating, editing, rendering, or validating `.pptx` presentations and their PDF versions.
Why use it?
It provides the steps needed to produce the final files and check the rendered result, rather than stopping at a slide outline or design document.

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/michaelengland/deckwright/present
Any agent
npx skills add michaelengland/deckwright --skill present
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/michaelengland/deckwright

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,142 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 $0.00052 $0.01142
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00571
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00228
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00114

Measured yesterday against content hash 491d5ded19b4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

present 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 yesterday.

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/present/SKILL.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Present

Execute a slide design document to generate the final presentation. This skill takes the complete slide-by-slide spec (with layouts, content, and visual direction) and produces a validated .pptx and .pdf.

Prerequisites

  • A slide design document exists (from /deckwright:design), OR
  • User provides a complete slide-by-slide spec with visual direction, OR
  • A PptxGenJS generation script exists from a previous import or creation (edit mode)

If no design or generation script exists: "Would you like to use /deckwright:design first to plan your slides and visual direction?"

Process

Edit Mode Check

Before starting, check: does a deck folder in decks/ contain a PptxGenJS generation script (a .js file containing require("pptxgenjs"))?

  • If no: This is a new presentation. Follow the standard process below.
  • If yes: This is an edit. Read the existing generation script and modify only the affected slide functions based on user instructions or upstream design documents. Do not rewrite unchanged slides. Specifically:
    1. Read the generation script to understand the current slide functions
    2. Identify which slides need changes (from user request or updated design doc)
    3. Modify only those createSlideN functions — preserve everything else verbatim
    4. If adding slides, create new functions and insert their calls at the right position
    5. If removing slides, delete the function and its call
    6. After modifications, continue to step 3 (Visual Validation) as usual

1. Load the Slide Design

Read the slide design document. Extract:

  • Visual direction (color palette, typography, visual style)
  • Each slide's layout, content, and speaker notes
  • Source references (URLs carried forward from upstream phases)

2. Generate Slides

Before writing any generation code, read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/pptx-generation.md — it contains the complete PptxGenJS API reference, critical pitfalls that cause file corruption, and the full generation workflow.

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 lines

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. yesterday First seen · 95 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 491d5ded19b4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

present is a skill published in the GitHub repository michaelengland/deckwright (2 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 1,142 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 2026-08-31.

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