talksmith:pptx-diff

A comparison tool for Talk presentations. It compares the original Markdown plan with Markdown reconstructed from an edited PowerPoint file, slide by slide.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps presenters review edits made to a deck and produces a readable report plus a JSON change file for a later merge step.
Why use it?
It shows exactly what changed in titles, content, notes, and images before any changes are merged back. This makes review easier and keeps acceptance decisions separate from comparison.

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/veigap/talksmith/pptx-diff
Any agent
npx skills add veigap/talksmith --skill pptx-diff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/veigap/talksmith

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 93 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,436 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 $0.00093 $0.01436
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00718
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00287
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00144

Measured 2d ago against content hash f322693a7c42, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

talksmith:pptx-diff 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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (align_md.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/pptx-diff/SKILL.md · 75 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

talksmith:pptx-diff — Explain what changed in the deck

The middle stage of the reverse pipeline. Given the original deliverable final.md and the finalpptx.md reconstructed from the edited deck by talksmith:pptx-extract, this skill produces a precise, reviewable list of every text and image change so the presenter can decide what to reincorporate.

The caller does This skill does
Provides final.md + finalpptx.md (+ optional inventory) Aligns slides, computes text/image deltas, writes the report + diff JSON
Reads the report and decides which changes to accept Never edits any file; classification of accept/reject is the merge step's job

When to use

Run after talksmith:pptx-extract has produced finalpptx.md, and before talksmith:pptx-merge. Also useful standalone to answer "what did the presenter change in the deck?"

Inputs

Input Required? Notes
--final yes The Talk's original final.md (pre-edit deliverable).
--pptx yes The reconstructed reconcile/finalpptx.md.
--talk optional Talk root (default: parent dir of --final). Image refs on both sides resolve against this — needed because finalpptx.md lives under reconcile/ while its refs are Talk-root-relative.
--inventory optional reconcile/finalpptx.inventory.json — enriches image classification.
--human / --json optional Report format on stdout. The reconcile/finalpptx.diff.json sidecar is always written.

Subcommand

python3 ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/pptx-diff/align_md.py \
  --final talks/<Talk>/final.md --pptx talks/<Talk>/reconcile/finalpptx.md \
  --talk talks/<Talk> [--inventory talks/<Talk>/reconcile/finalpptx.inventory.json] --human

Alignment

Slides align by (section_key, slide_num) primary, with a normalized-title SequenceMatcher ≥ 0.6 fallback (handles renumbering and lightly-edited titles), greedy best-ratio within the match set. Matches with ratio 0.6–0.75 are tagged ⚠ low-confidence so the Editor double-checks before accepting.

Read the full file on GitHub · 75 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 2d ago First seen · 75 lines · 93 tokens per session scan A f322693a7c42

Subscribe to this mod's changes

talksmith:pptx-diff is a skill published in the GitHub repository veigap/talksmith (10 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 93 tokens to every session and 1,436 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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