Build a real, editable PowerPoint (.pptx) deck from an outline or brief.

MITAuto-check passedDocuments & Office

Install Slide Deck

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill slide-deck -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills slide-deck --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/slide-deck .claude/skills/slide-deck && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
slide-deck
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
558 words
Files
2 (incl. scripts)
Skills in repo
1,348
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Build a real, editable PowerPoint (.pptx) deck from an outline or brief.

  • Works in 3 steps: Storyline first — turn the content into… → Write a python-pptx script that → Run it, then summarise the deck and flag…
  • Asked to make a slide deck
  • SKILL.md covers Required Inputs, Process, Output Format and Quality Checks, plus 4 more sections
  • Runs Python scripts from its folder; calls python3

What it does

Slide Deck is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Build a real, editable PowerPoint (.pptx) deck from an outline or brief. Use when asked to make a slide deck, a PowerPoint, a pitch/board/sales deck as an actual file, or to turn a doc/notes into slides. Produces an actual .pptx via a generated python-pptx script — a title slide, one idea per content slide with a clear headline and concise bullets, and consistent styling. Requires a code-execution environment (Claude Code, the API code tool, or Claude.ai).

Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including scripts (for example `scripts/pptx_tool.py`).

It sits in Documents & Office, covering Slides and decks and PowerPoint presentations. It works with Microsoft PowerPoint and python-pptx. The repository describes itself as: 1255 professional Agent Skills for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor & Codex — PRDs, postmortems, leases, medical bills, layoffs, go-bags, new countries. Plain markdown, MIT, in… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Asked to make a slide deck
  • A pitch/board/sales deck as an actual file
  • Turn a doc/notes into slides

Example prompts

  • “/slide-deck”

Requirements

  • Python 3

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Storyline first — turn the content into a slide-by-slide narrative: title → context → the few key points → the ask/close. One idea per…
  2. Write a python-pptx script that
  3. Run it, then summarise the deck and flag any slide that needs a chart/image the user must add.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1cbf1f0. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Ships 1 file in scripts/ (Python), which the agent can run.

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • python3

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Slide Deck loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 118 tokens; SKILL.md has 558 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~118
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.1k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills at commit 1cbf1f0, republished under its MIT licence (© mohitagw15856). 558 words, ~1,118 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/slide-deck/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
slide-deck
description
Build a real, editable PowerPoint (.pptx) deck from an outline or brief. Use when asked to make a slide deck, a PowerPoint, a pitch/board/sales deck as an actual file, or to turn a doc/notes into slides. Produces an actual .pptx via a generated python-pptx script — a title slide, one idea per content slide with a clear headline and concise bullets, and consistent styling. Requires a code-execution environment (Claude Code, the API code tool, or Claude.ai).

Slide Deck Skill

This produces a real, editable .pptx — not a markdown outline — by writing and running a python-pptx script. It turns a brief, doc, or outline into a deck that follows good slide hygiene: a headline that states the point (not a vague title), one idea per slide, concise bullets, and consistent styling — so the user opens an actual PowerPoint they can present and edit.

Environment: produces a binary file, so it needs code execution — Claude Code, the API code-execution tool, or Claude.ai. In the browser playground (no code execution), the existing PPTX export turns any skill's markdown into slides; this skill is for a built-from-brief deck.

Required Inputs

Ask for these only if they aren't already provided:

  • Deck type & goal — pitch, board update, sales deck, training, readout — and the one thing the audience should do/believe.
  • The content — an outline, doc, or notes (the skill structures it into slides).
  • Audience & length — who's watching and roughly how many slides.
  • Brand — any colours/font (defaults to a clean, neutral theme otherwise).

Process

  1. Storyline first — turn the content into a slide-by-slide narrative: title → context → the few key points → the ask/close. One idea per slide; confirm the flow if it's a high-stakes deck.
  2. Write a python-pptx script that:
    • Builds a title slide, then content slides each with an assertion headline (the takeaway, e.g. "Activation is the bottleneck — not signups") and 3–5 tight bullets or a simple visual.
    • Applies consistent styling: a colour accent, readable font sizes, generous spacing; uses the brand colour if given.
    • Avoids text walls — bullets are phrases, not paragraphs; speaker detail goes in notes.
    • Saves to a clearly named .pptx.
  3. Run it, then summarise the deck and flag any slide that needs a chart/image the user must add.

Output Format

  • The generated .pptx file.
  • A short deck outline (slide titles + the one-line message of each) and notes on anything to add (data, visuals).
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Quality Checks

  • Each slide has an assertion headline (states the point), not a topic label
  • One idea per slide; bullets are concise phrases, not paragraphs
  • Styling is consistent (accent, fonts, spacing) and uses brand colour if provided
  • The deck has a clear narrative arc and ends on the ask
  • The script runs and the file opens cleanly in PowerPoint/Keynote/Slides

Anti-Patterns

  • Do not write topic-label titles ("Metrics") — use the takeaway ("Retention drove 80% of growth")
  • Do not cram multiple ideas onto one slide — split them; one point per slide
  • Do not paste paragraphs as bullets — phrases on the slide, detail in speaker notes
  • Do not vary styling slide to slide — consistency is what makes a deck look professional
  • Do not claim a file exists without code execution — fall back to the outline / the playground's PPTX export

Based On

Presentation practice — assertion-evidence / one-idea-per-slide, Duarte/Minto narrative structure — implemented with python-pptx.

Programmatic Helper

This skill ships scripts/pptx_tool.py — zero-dependency (stdlib zip+XML) generation of a real .pptx from a markdown outline:

bash
python3 scripts/pptx_tool.py build deck.pptx --outline-file deck.md

Outline: # Title (+ next line = subtitle) · ## Slide title · - bullet (two-space indent = sub-bullet) · > speaker note. Ships a clean 16:9 dark-title theme that opens in PowerPoint/Keynote/Slides. Design the narrative first (per this skill), then emit the outline and build. Honest limits: one theme, no images/charts — it's the restylable skeleton; for designed decks use the playground's slide export.

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "Make a slide deck."
  • "Make a PowerPoint for the board."
  • "Turn these notes into slides."
  • "Build an actual .pptx pitch deck."

© mohitagw15856, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file (scripts) in skills/slide-deck of mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • scripts/pptx_tool.py

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Questions about Slide Deck

What does Slide Deck do?

Build a real, editable PowerPoint (.pptx) deck from an outline or brief. Slide Deck is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.pptx) deck from an outline or brief.

When should I use Slide Deck?

Slide Deck fits situations like: asked to make a slide deck; A pitch/board/sales deck as an actual file; turn a doc/notes into slides.

How do I install Slide Deck in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill slide-deck -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/slide-deck in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .claude/skills/slide-deck in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Slide Deck in Codex?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill slide-deck -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/slide-deck in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .agents/skills/slide-deck in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Slide Deck in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill slide-deck -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/slide-deck, .gemini/skills/slide-deck, .github/skills/slide-deck and .opencode/skills/slide-deck in your project.

What does Slide Deck need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Slide Deck needs Python for the scripts in its folder and the command-line tools its instructions call (python3). Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Slide Deck access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Slide Deck safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.

What licence does Slide Deck use?

Slide Deck is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Slide Deck use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.5k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Slide Deck?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Slide Deck: Slides (fcakyon/claude-codex-settings, 1.2k stars), Powerpoint Slides (Noi1r/powerpoint-skill, 124 stars), PPTX HTML Fidelity Audit (sanqiufong/slides-from-anything, 132 stars) and Slide Making Skill (haojing8312/WorkClaw, 141 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Slide Deck?

mohitagw15856 (a GitHub user) maintains it in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, which has 1,433 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,348 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.

Source: mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.