create-slide

create-slide is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from smartdatabrokers/slideforge-mcp. It costs 84 tokens per session (1,497 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A service for creating editable PowerPoint slides and presentations from structured content. It offers catalogued layouts such as charts, timelines, tables, funnels, and roadmaps, then renders them into .pptx files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for presentation slides, dashboards, QBRs, board exhibits, charts, plans, comparisons, and complete decks.
Why use it?
It provides a defined process for choosing a layout, checking the content, and producing a slide that remains editable in PowerPoint.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the slideforge plugin — 4 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

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/smartdatabrokers/slideforge-mcp/create-slide
Any agent
npx skills add smartdatabrokers/slideforge-mcp --skill create-slide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/smartdatabrokers/slideforge-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install slideforge, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 1 MCP server.

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.

agentmods badge for create-slide

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/smartdatabrokers/slideforge-mcp/create-slide.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/smartdatabrokers/slideforge-mcp/create-slide)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/smartdatabrokers/slideforge-mcp/create-slide"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/smartdatabrokers/slideforge-mcp/create-slide.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 84 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,497 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00084 $0.01497
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00749
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00299
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00150

Measured 5d ago against content hash e3548365ce2e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-slide scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 5d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer sf_live_YOUR_KEY" \
skills/create-slide/SKILL.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create slides & decks

SlideForge is a compiler: a slide is a typed intent (form + typed content fields) rendered deterministically into native, editable .pptx — no LLM in the render path. $0.05/slide, usable-or-free; identical input re-renders free.

The reliable path (use for real content)

  1. Pick the form. browse_catalog lists 200+ patterns (kpi_metrics, waterfall_bridge, gantt_plan, funnel, org_structure, data_table, comparison_matrix, timeline_roadmap, …). Unsure? plan_slide with a one-line brief returns ranked candidates, free.
  2. Get the contract. browse_catalog with type=schema + the form returns the JSON Schema and a copy-pasteable example intent. Start from the example; swap in the user's real content; keep the advertised field names exactly.
  3. Dry-run. Send the intent with dry_run: truestatus: validated + a fidelity_forecast at $0. If errors[] come back, each carries a machine code and a remedy — fix and re-dry-run. Never pay to discover a validation error.
  4. Render. Same payload without dry_run. The response embeds a preview PNG inline, cost, and the fidelity manifest. The editable file downloads separately (see below).

For a whole deck: ONE create_deck call with slides[] (a list of create_slide intents). Parallel render, one merged pptx, per-slide fidelity rollup; failed slides are isolated and free.

Grammar worth knowing (v5.104 surface):

  • Stat prominence: list/workflow block items take metric: {value, label} — the number renders as a stat column instead of hiding in prose. Keep values bare (42 or "42"), no % signs, units, or currency symbols inside numeric fields.
  • Architecture depth: layer stacks take orientation: "horizontal" (left-to-right pipeline with crossing control rails) and per-component state: current|target|gap (capability-heat tinting) — consulting capability-map staples from one typed payload.
  • quality_profile (executive/technical/appendix) answers on ANY form — the response's layout.presentation_ready is judged against it; measurement only, never blocks or bills.

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 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. 5d ago First seen · 102 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A e3548365ce2e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

create-slide is a skill published in the GitHub repository smartdatabrokers/slideforge-mcp (4 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 1,497 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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