automating-keynote

automating-keynote is a skill for Claude Code from SpillwaveSolutions/automating-mac-apps-plugin. It costs 72 tokens per session (996 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A macOS automation guide for controlling Apple Keynote presentations with JXA, with AppleScript used to discover Keynote’s available commands.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating presentations, slides, text, shapes, images, tables, charts, and transitions programmatically. It also helps with opening documents and exporting presentation files.
Why use it?
It provides a structured way to create and edit slide decks from scripts instead of performing every change by hand. It also addresses common details such as file paths and document handling.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Not installable: its command points at a path on the author’s own machine, so it runs nowhere else. The line is /Users/you/Desktop/diagram.png.

Part of the automating-mac-apps plugin — 16 skills, 10 commands, 9 agents shipped together

Good fit Creating presentations, slides, text, shapes, images, tables, charts, and transitions programmatically. It also helps with opening documents and exporting presentation files.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add SpillwaveSolutions/automating-mac-apps-plugin
Claude Code
/plugin install automating-mac-apps

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install automating-mac-apps, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 10 commands, 9 agents.

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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 996 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 $0.00072 $0.00996
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00498
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00199
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00100

Measured 7d ago against content hash 5409664dff4c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

automating-keynote 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 7d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 6 executable files (scripts/create_keynote_presentation.py, scripts/create_presentation.js, scripts/export_keynote_presentation.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.

plugins/automating-mac-apps-plugin/skills/automating-keynote/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.

Automating Keynote (JXA-first, AppleScript discovery)

Contents

Relationship to the macOS automation skill

  • This skill focuses on Keynote-specific automation (documents, slides, charts).
  • Use automating-mac-apps for cross-app workflows or general macOS scripting foundations.
  • Assumes Apple Events knowledge from the related skill.
  • PyXA Installation: To use PyXA examples in this skill, see the installation instructions in automating-mac-apps skill (PyXA Installation section).

Core Framing

  • JXA (JavaScript for Automation) enables macOS app scripting with JavaScript syntax.
  • AppleScript dictionaries define Keynote's object model—discover via Script Editor.
  • JXA objects are specifiers: read with methods like .name(), write with assignments.
  • Production scripts use JXA for reliability; AppleScript for prototyping.
  • Important: The JXA Path() function is required when specifying file paths to Keynote (e.g., for images, exports, or opening documents). Use Path("/path/to/file") instead of plain strings.

Workflow (default)

  1. Discover terms in Script Editor > File > Open Dictionary > Keynote.
  2. Prototype minimal AppleScript: tell application "Keynote" to get name of document 1.
  3. Port to JXA: Application("Keynote").documents[0].name() with try-catch blocks.
  4. Validate with read-only probes: Application("Keynote").documents.length > 0.
  5. Use UI scripting only when dictionary lacks features (e.g. Application("System Events")).

Quick Examples

Prototype (AppleScript):

tell application "Keynote"
    get name of document 1
end tell

Production (JXA):

const keynote = Application("Keynote");
if (keynote.documents.length > 0) {
    console.log(keynote.documents[0].name());
}

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. 7d ago First seen · 95 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 5409664dff4c

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automating-keynote is a skill published in the GitHub repository SpillwaveSolutions/automating-mac-apps-plugin (40 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 996 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.