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Pptx

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davepoon·vlatest·writing·MIT

Davepoon's davepoon-pptx generates professional PowerPoint presentations from text prompts, saving you time and design effort.

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    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add davepoon/buildwithclaude --skill pptx -a claude-code

  2. Uses the open-source skills CLI and needs Node.js. Add -g to install it for your user instead of this project.

What we know about this skill

Publisher

davepoon

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Live repository

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Automated safety checks

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This skill passed all 6 checks. We read its files at one commit and looked for the things that make a skill dangerous to run — not for whether it works.

  • Declares what it does: passed

    SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.

    SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.

  • No undeclared network calls: passed

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    Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.

    Hosts contacted

    www.w3.orgstandardsschemas.openxmlformats.orgnamespace identifier

  • No obfuscated payloads: passed

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    No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.

  • No credential access: passed

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    Scanned davepoon/buildwithclaude at fc03a95b41.

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fc03a95b41
Manifest
plugins/all-skills/skills/pptx/SKILL.md
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17 files, 6,605 lines
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About this skill

What it does

This skill enables an AI agent to create, edit, and analyze PowerPoint (.pptx) files. A .pptx file is a ZIP archive containing XML files and other resources. The skill provides tools for extracting text content, accessing raw XML data (for elements like comments, speaker notes, animations, and formatting), and analyzing design elements such as typography and colors. It also supports creating new presentations using an HTML-to-PowerPoint conversion workflow.

When to use it

  • You need to extract the text from a PowerPoint presentation.
  • You require access to specific elements within a .pptx file, like speaker notes or slide layouts.
  • You want to analyze the design (colors and fonts) of an existing PowerPoint presentation as inspiration for a new one.
  • You need to create a new PowerPoint presentation from scratch, leveraging HTML content.
  • You need to understand the structure of a .pptx file for debugging or advanced manipulation.

Key capabilities

  • Text Extraction: Converts .pptx files to Markdown format.
  • Raw XML Access: Allows access to comments, speaker notes, slide layouts, animations, design elements, and complex formatting within the .pptx file.
  • Typography & Color Analysis: Extracts color schemes ( <a:clrScheme>) and font information (<a:fontScheme>) from theme files, and analyzes actual font usage in slides.
  • File Structure Understanding: Provides knowledge of key file structures within a .pptx archive (e.g., presentation.xml, slide{N}.xml, theme/theme1.xml).
  • HTML to PowerPoint Conversion: Creates presentations from HTML content using the html2pptx workflow.

Example prompts

  • "Extract all the text from this PowerPoint file: [path-to-file.pptx]"
  • "What fonts and colors are used in this presentation? [path-to-file.pptx]"
  • "Create a new PowerPoint presentation based on this HTML content."
  • "Show me the speaker notes for slide 3 of this presentation: [path-to-file.pptx]"

Tips & gotchas

  • Design Approach First: Always state your design approach (tone, branding, color palette) before generating any code or creating a presentation.
  • Web-Safe Fonts Only: The skill is designed to use only web-safe fonts: Arial, Helvetica, Times New Roman, Georgia, Courier New, Verdana, Tahoma, Trebuchet MS, Impact.
  • Script Location: If using the unpack.py script, be aware that its location might vary and may require locating it with find . -name "unpack.py".