narrating-pptx

narrating-pptx is a skill for Claude Code from shaharsha/claude-skills. It costs 121 tokens per session (3,457 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for adding generated voice narration to PowerPoint slides so a deck can present itself.

In plain words
What is it for?
Writing per-slide scripts, generating speech with ElevenLabs, embedding one audio clip per slide, and setting the clips to play when slides open.
Why use it?
It avoids broken PowerPoint files and autoplay problems when audio is added manually or with unreliable XML changes.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the documents-and-decks plugin — 7 skills shipped together , and of shaharsha-skills

Good fit Writing per-slide scripts, generating speech with ElevenLabs, embedding one audio clip per slide, and setting the clips to play when slides open.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shaharsha/claude-skills/narrating-pptx
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 shaharsha/claude-skills --skill narrating-pptx
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shaharsha/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install documents-and-decks, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

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Per session 121 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,457 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 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 $0.00121 $0.03457
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.01729
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00691
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00346

Measured 11d ago against content hash efc2ff49dc90, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

narrating-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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (scripts/add_audio.py, scripts/align_narration.py, scripts/generate_tts.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.

skills/narrating-pptx/SKILL.md · 164 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 164 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Narrating PPTX (ElevenLabs → per-slide autoplay)

Overview

Turn any pptx into a self-presenting deck: write presenter-style narration scripts (any language), generate speech via ElevenLabs eleven_v3, embed one clip per slide, and make each clip autoplay on slide entry.

The iron rule (paid for in blood): NEVER hand-write <p:timing> autoplay XML. Hand-rolled timing XML corrupts the file — PowerPoint shows "found a problem… Repair". The only reliable method is letting real PowerPoint author the XML itself via AppleScript play-settings (scripts/set_autoplay.sh). If you're tempted to inject timing XML "just this once" — that's the exact failure this skill exists to prevent.

Requirements: macOS + Microsoft PowerPoint installed (for the autoplay step), python-pptx, ELEVENLABS_API_KEY env var, an ElevenLabs voice ID from the user.

Pipeline (5 steps, in order)

1. Write the narration scripts → scripts.json

{"01": "text…", "02": "text…", …} — keys are 1-based slide positions, zero-padded.

Language: exactly what the user asks for. Hebrew, English, or mixed. For Hebrew (or any non-English), write like a native presenter in that language who naturally keeps technical terms in English (e.g., Israeli hi-tech register: "ה-agent מנתח את הדאטה וכותב manifest"). Don't translate terms the audience uses in English.

Depth: the voice IS the presenter, not a caption reader. Target ~600–900 chars per slide (≈45–75 s). Each script: open with context → work through what the slide actually shows → explain the why → bridge to the next slide. Describe position only when the viewer needs it to follow. On a diagram, "the dashed box inside" is orientation they cannot get otherwise; over three cards of text, "on the left… in the middle… on the right" is audio-description rather than presenting (see self-presenting-decks). Short caption-style scripts (~200 chars) feel like labels, not a presentation — users reject them.

Audio tags = the "Enhance" feature. ElevenLabs' UI "Enhance" button just uses an LLM to add tags — there is no Enhance API. You are that LLM: weave tags into the script. Tags stay in English brackets even inside Hebrew/other-language text, placed at the emotional beat they modify.

Read the full file on GitHub · 164 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 11d ago First seen · 164 lines · 121 tokens per session scan A efc2ff49dc90

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narrating-pptx is a skill published in the GitHub repository shaharsha/claude-skills (5 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 121 tokens to every session and 3,457 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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