pptx
Use this skill any time a .pptx or .potx file is involved in any way — as input, output, or both. This includes: creating slide decks, pitch decks, or presentations; reading, parsing, or extracting text from any .pptx or .potx file (even if the extracted content will be used else
Install caution
Risk: High
Source: Anthropic Skills
Path: skills/pptx/SKILL.md
Review flags: filesystem/home-directory access, package installation commands, shell command snippets. These are review signals, not definitive security judgments; inspect before installing.
Required permissions
- • Environment variables / secrets
- • Shell commands
- • Filesystem/home access
Permissions are inferred from SKILL.md text only. They are review prompts, not guarantees about runtime behavior.
Risk flags explained
Mentions filesystem writes, deletes, home-directory paths, or config/key locations.
Mentions package installation or dependency-fetching commands.
Contains shell command snippets. Review commands before copy/paste or agent execution.
Score explanation
Trust
- • Trust starts at 90 before review-signal penalties and metadata bonuses.
- • Risk-signal penalty: -35 from 3 detected flag(s).
- • Metadata bonus: +2 from author/version/description fields.
Utility
- • Utility starts at 55 and rewards clear descriptions, runnable examples, and explicit setup needs.
- • Description present: yes.
- • Command examples detected: 18.
- • Environment variables detected: 1.
Momentum
- • Momentum starts at 45 and uses public repo activity signals.
- • Recent repo update within 13 days.
- • Recent commit volume: 3 commit(s) in the lookback window (+9).
- • Source has strong public adoption: 166866 stars.
- • Fork activity suggests reuse: 19880 forks.
Overall
- • Overall score weights trust 45%, utility 35%, and momentum 20%.
Detected signals
Env vars
- • API
Commands
- • (npm, preinstalled — install only if
- • (pip — text dump, thumbnail, clean, validate) · LibreOffice (
- • node
- • npm install
- • npm install pptxgenjs
- • npm install react-icons react react-dom sharp
- • python scripts/add_slide.py unpacked/ slide2.xml --after slide2.xml # duplicate a slide (or slideLayoutN.xml); prints the new slide's path
- • python scripts/clean.py unpacked/ # after deletions: removes orphaned slides, media, rels
- • python scripts/office/soffice.py --headless --convert-to pdf output.pptx
- • python scripts/office/soffice.py --headless --convert-to pptx file.ppt
- • python scripts/office/validate.py deck.pptx
- • python scripts/office/validate.py out.pptx --original deck.pptx
URLs
None detected in SKILL.md text scan.
Provenance & evidence
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Evidence snippets
…s. Choose your approach by task: | Task | Approach | |---|---| | **Create** a new deck | Write a `pptxgenjs` script — see gotchas below | | **Edit** an existing deck, or build from a t…
…andbox | ## Creating with pptxgenjs — gotchas `pptxgenjs` is preinstalled — do not run `npm install` first; write the script and `require('pptxgenjs')` directly. Only if that require fails:…
…n deck.pptx` (one block per slide under `<!-- Slide number: N -->` markers); visual grid: `python scripts/thumbnail.py deck.pptx` | ## Scripts Paths are relative to this skill's directory. Everything else is plain Pyt…
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