A guide for creating, editing, and examining PowerPoint presentation files in the .pptx format. It covers slide text, layouts, comments, speaker notes, animations, and other presentation details.

Use it to create or modify slide decks, extract their text, inspect their internal XML, and work with layouts, notes, comments, or animations.

It explains which tools to use for simple text work versus low-level formatting and presentation features.

pptx — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by tomascupr: A guide for creating, editing, and examining PowerPoint presentation…

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/tomascupr/sandstorm/pptx

Any agent

npx skills add tomascupr/sandstorm --skill pptx

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tomascupr/sandstorm

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tomascupr/sandstorm/pptx.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/tomascupr/sandstorm/pptx)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tomascupr/sandstorm/pptx"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tomascupr/sandstorm/pptx.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 6,252 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan B 1 finding. Scan, not verified.

Origin 95% copy Near-identical to another mod 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.00062	$0.06252
Opus 5	$0.00031	$0.03126
Sonnet 5	$0.00012	$0.01250
Haiku 4.5	$0.00006	$0.00625

Measured 5d ago against content hash b6f25545bfb3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

pptx scanned grade B 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 13 executable files (ooxml/scripts/pack.py, ooxml/scripts/unpack.py, ooxml/scripts/validate.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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

- **LibreOffice**: `sudo apt-get install libreoffice` (for PDF conversion)

Origin

This is a copy

95% identical to pptx — 3 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.claude/skills/pptx/SKILL.md · 484 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 484 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PPTX creation, editing, and analysis

Overview

A user may ask you to create, edit, or analyze the contents of a .pptx file. A .pptx file is essentially a ZIP archive containing XML files and other resources that you can read or edit. You have different tools and workflows available for different tasks.

Reading and analyzing content

Text extraction

If you just need to read the text contents of a presentation, you should convert the document to markdown:

# Convert document to markdown
python -m markitdown path-to-file.pptx

Raw XML access

You need raw XML access for: comments, speaker notes, slide layouts, animations, design elements, and complex formatting. For any of these features, you'll need to unpack a presentation and read its raw XML contents.

Unpacking a file

python ooxml/scripts/unpack.py <office_file> <output_dir>

Note: The unpack.py script is located at skills/pptx/ooxml/scripts/unpack.py relative to the project root. If the script doesn't exist at this path, use find . -name "unpack.py" to locate it.

Key file structures

ppt/presentation.xml - Main presentation metadata and slide references
ppt/slides/slide{N}.xml - Individual slide contents (slide1.xml, slide2.xml, etc.)
ppt/notesSlides/notesSlide{N}.xml - Speaker notes for each slide
ppt/comments/modernComment_*.xml - Comments for specific slides
ppt/slideLayouts/ - Layout templates for slides
ppt/slideMasters/ - Master slide templates
ppt/theme/ - Theme and styling information
ppt/media/ - Images and other media files

Typography and color extraction

When given an example design to emulate: Always analyze the presentation's typography and colors first using the methods below:

Read theme file: Check ppt/theme/theme1.xml for colors (<a:clrScheme>) and fonts (<a:fontScheme>)
Sample slide content: Examine ppt/slides/slide1.xml for actual font usage (<a:rPr>) and colors
Search for patterns: Use grep to find color (<a:solidFill>, <a:srgbClr>) and font references across all XML files

Read the full file on GitHub · 484 lines

Files

What ships with it

54 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.

5d ago First seen · 484 lines · 62 tokens per session scan B b6f25545bfb3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pptx is a skill published in the GitHub repository tomascupr/sandstorm (447 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 6,252 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). It is 95% identical to pptx, differing in 3 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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pptx

Getting it into your agent

Wrote this? Show the measurements

What it costs to keep this loaded

Grade B, and why

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

This is a copy

How it starts

PPTX creation, editing, and analysis

Overview

Reading and analyzing content

Text extraction

Raw XML access

Unpacking a file

Key file structures

Typography and color extraction

What ships with it

What this file has done since we first saw it

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