PPT Generation

Turn a single paragraph of intent into a finished .pptx deck. You describe the audience, the argument, and the data you want to show; the skill plans the slide sequence, picks layouts, writes headlines and body copy, drafts speaker notes, and emits a real PowerPoint file you can open and keep editing in PowerPoint, Keynote, or Google Slides. Built for people who write decks under deadline — sales engineers, founders prepping a raise, eng leads running an all-hands, conference speakers.

When to use it

• A sales deck for a specific prospect where you have the talking points but not the slides.
• An investor pitch that needs a coherent narrative arc (problem → solution → market → traction → ask).
• An all-hands or quarterly update built from a few bullet points and a metrics table.
• A conference talk where you want clean section breaks and presenter notes to rehearse from.

How it works

The skill builds the file with python-pptx, so the output is a genuine OOXML .pptx — not an image export or a PDF. From your brief it produces a slide plan, then for each slide selects a layout (title, title + content, two-column, section header, blank for custom composition), places shapes via slide.shapes and placeholders, and adds presenter text through slide.notes_slide.notes_text_frame. Charts are native PowerPoint chart objects added with add_chart() using CategoryChartData (bar, column, line, and pie), so they stay editable and re-themeable after generation. Brand color and type are applied through RGBColor fills and run-level font settings; supply hex colors and a font family in your brief and they propagate across slides.

Usage

curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o ~/.claude/skills/ppt-generation/SKILL.md https://claudeskil.com/skills/ppt-generation/SKILL.md

# then, in your session:
"Make a 10-slide Series A pitch for Loamly, a soil-sensor startup.
 Cover problem, product, how it works, market size, traction
 (ARR chart: 40k, 110k, 280k over 3 years), team, and the ask
 ($3M). Brand color #1F6F43, headline font Söhne. Add speaker
 notes for each slide."

You get a .pptx saved to the working directory plus a short slide-by-slide outline summary.

Tips & gotchas

• Custom fonts only render if the font is installed on the machine that opens the deck; otherwise PowerPoint substitutes. For portability, name a common family or accept the default.
• Put your numbers in the brief as explicit series — "40k, 110k, 280k" charts cleanly; "growing fast" does not.
• Ask for a specific slide count. Without one the skill infers length from the brief, which can run long.
• Re-running with a tweaked brief regenerates the whole file; it does not diff-edit an existing deck.

FAQ

Can I edit the result? Yes — every element is a native shape, text frame, or chart, fully editable in PowerPoint.

Does it embed my logo or images? It lays out and styles content; point it at a local image path to place a logo, otherwise it uses text and shapes.

What chart types are supported? Column, bar, line, and pie, rendered as editable PowerPoint charts via python-pptx.