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PPTX Creation, Editing & Analysis

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The official Anthropic skill for building slide decks with pptxgenjs, editing .pptx/.potx templates at the XML level, extracting content, and running required file and visual QA.

Docs & OfficeIntermediate★ 187,763⑂ 22,153AI score 10/10Last updated: Oct 28, 2026

What it does

  • Creates decks with pptxgenjs, front-loading the footguns that silently corrupt files: #-prefixed or 8-digit hex colors, negative shadow offsets, outEnd labels on stacked charts, secondary axes missing valAxes/catAxes, reused option objects.
  • Edits existing decks and templates via unzip → edit ppt/slides/slideN.xml → rezip, with helper scripts for safe slide duplication (add_slide.py) and orphan cleanup (clean.py).
  • Reads content with markitdown (per-slide text blocks) and thumbnail.py (labeled grid for picking template layouts).
  • Design guidance: 10 curated palettes, layout patterns, QA-safe font list, type scale, and an explicit "avoid" list (no accent stripes, no underlines beneath titles, no text-only slides).
  • Mandatory QA: validate.py for schema/relationship/chart checks (--original when template-derived) plus a PDF → JPG render loop to catch overflow, overlap, and margin issues.

Who it's for

  • Consultants and analysts turning documents into presentation decks
  • Teams that must fill corporate .potx templates without breaking them
  • Developers batch-parsing, converting, or generating PowerPoint files

Examples

  1. "Turn this market research summary into a 12-slide pitch deck" — picks a palette, writes a pptxgenjs script, validates, then reviews rendered slides for overflow.
  2. "Build the quarterly review using layout 3 from template.potx" — thumbnails the template, duplicates slides with add_slide.py, edits XML, validates with --original.
  3. "Pull the speaker notes and body text out of deck.pptx for an email recap" — runs markitdown and summarizes slide by slide.

· · · Install guide · · ·

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Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
  1. Download the ZIP with the button below.
  2. In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
  3. Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
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Copy the skills/pptx folder from the GitHub repo anthropics/skills into my ~/.claude/skills/pptx/.
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Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/anthropics/skills.git /tmp/anthropic-skills && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r /tmp/anthropic-skills/skills/pptx ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open a terminal.
  2. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/anthropics/skills.git /tmp/anthropic-skills
  3. Create the skills folder: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  4. Copy this skill: cp -r /tmp/anthropic-skills/skills/pptx ~/.claude/skills/
  5. Install Python/Node deps: pip install "markitdown[pptx]" Pillow defusedxml lxml and npm install -g pptxgenjs (or install locally in your working directory).
  6. Install conversion tools for visual QA: LibreOffice (soffice) and Poppler (pdftoppm). On macOS: brew install --cask libreoffice && brew install poppler.
  7. Restart Claude Code and try a prompt like "make a deck from these notes" to confirm the skill triggers.
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