What is creating-md-slides?

A guide for creating slide decks from Markdown and converting them to PDF, PowerPoint, or HTML. It focuses on tools such as Marp, Beamer, and reveal.js.

Use it to create presentation files, check Marp slide quality, and export Markdown-based decks.

It gives you a repeatable path from written content to a presentation and includes a quality check for Marp slides. This helps catch serious slide issues before conversion.

creating-md-slides — Skill for Claude Code by vladolaru

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 vladolaru/claude-code-plugins --skill creating-md-slides

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vladolaru/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pirategoat-tools, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills.

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/vladolaru/claude-code-plugins/creating-md-slides/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/vladolaru/claude-code-plugins/creating-md-slides)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/vladolaru/claude-code-plugins/creating-md-slides"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vladolaru/claude-code-plugins/creating-md-slides/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/vladolaru/claude-code-plugins/creating-md-slides"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vladolaru/claude-code-plugins/creating-md-slides.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,013 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. Third-party audits

NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026

SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

medium MCP Rug Pull · line 27
uvx/uv tool run commands without ==version create a rug-pull risk.

Fix: Pin the version: uvx package-name==1.2.3

How audits are shown

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00054	$0.01013
Opus 5.5	$0.00022	$0.00405
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00011	$0.00203
Haiku 4.5	$0.00005	$0.00101

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 9764dfa6e646, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

creating-md-slides 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 2mo 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.

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/pirategoat-tools/skills/creating-md-slides/SKILL.md · 149 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 149 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Creating Markdown Slides

Convert Markdown to presentation slides in multiple formats (PDF, PPTX, HTML).

Workflow

digraph workflow {
    "Content request" -> "Write slides.md";
    "Write slides.md" -> "Run SlideGauge";
    "Run SlideGauge" -> "Fix issues (if any)";
    "Fix issues (if any)" -> "User reviews";
    "User reviews" -> "Ask: Ready to convert?";
    "Ask: Ready to convert?" -> "Convert to output format";
}

Generate markdown content based on user's request
Write to .md file (e.g., slides.md)

Run quality check (Marp slides only):

uvx --from git+https://github.com/nibzard/slidegauge slidegauge slides.md --text

Fix any failing slides (score < 70) before proceeding
Tell user: "Created slides.md (score: X/100). Review and edit if needed."
Ask before converting: "Ready to convert to PDF/PPTX/HTML?"
Convert using appropriate tool

Quality thresholds: 70 = passing, 80 = good, 90+ = excellent. See marp-slide-quality skill for fix patterns.

Tool Selection

Scenario	Tool	Command
Modern slides, quick output	Marp	`marp slides.md -o slides.pdf`
Academic, math-heavy	Pandoc Beamer	`pandoc slides.md -t beamer -o slides.pdf`
Editable PowerPoint	Pandoc PPTX	`pandoc slides.md -o slides.pptx`
Web presentation	reveal.js	`pandoc slides.md -t revealjs -s -o slides.html`

Quick Commands

Marp (Recommended)

marp slides.md -o slides.pdf           # PDF
marp slides.md -o slides.pptx          # PowerPoint
marp slides.md -o slides.html          # HTML
marp slides.md --theme gaia -o out.pdf # With theme
marp slides.md -o out.pdf --allow-local-files  # With local images

Pandoc Beamer

pandoc slides.md -t beamer -o slides.pdf
pandoc slides.md -t beamer --pdf-engine=xelatex -o slides.pdf  # Better fonts
pandoc slides.md -t beamer -V theme:metropolis -o slides.pdf   # With theme

reveal.js

pandoc slides.md -t revealjs -s -o slides.html
pandoc slides.md -t revealjs -s -V theme=moon -o slides.html

Read the full file on GitHub · 149 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.

2mo ago First seen · 149 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 9764dfa6e646

Subscribe to this mod's changes

creating-md-slides is a skill published in the GitHub repository vladolaru/claude-code-plugins (8 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 1,013 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.

Creative and media Documents

creating-md-slides next to 6 skills from other repositories
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creating-md-slidesvladolaru/claude-code-plugins	Skill	8	5d ago	MIT	A	54	Claude Code
orbit-notionnexu-io/open-design	Skill	107k	today	Apache-2.0	A	117	Claude Code, Codex
instrument-data-to-allotropeanthropics/knowledge-work-plugins	Skill	35k	yesterday	Apache-2.0	A	123	Claude Code
apify-youtube-transcript-scrapersickn33/agentic-awesome-skills	Skill	50k	today	MIT	A	48	Claude Code
report-to-pdfasgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks	Skill	71k	yesterday	CC0-1.0	A	17	Claude Code, Codex
legal-holdanthropics/claude-for-legal	Skill	10.0k	3d ago	Apache-2.0	A	68	Claude Code
artifact-template-minimal-letterheadasgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks	Skill	71k	yesterday	CC0-1.0	A	54	Claude Code, Codex