Microsoft Powerpoint — Development skill for Claude Code

microsoft-powerpoint

**TL;DR:** `microsoft-powerpoint` is a free, MIT-licensed agent skill that teaches AI agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI and other agents that read SKILL.md skills) to read, edit and build PowerPoint decks without losing formatting, render slide previews in a sandbox, and clean decks before they are shared. Install: `npx skills add skillsaas/microsoft-powerpoint` or `npm install microsoft-powerpoint`.

An agent skill (`SKILL.md`) that teaches AI coding agents to work with Microsoft PowerPoint decks safely: read them, edit text without losing formatting, render previews, and clean them before they are shared.

Use it when

• a user asks you to read, summarize, edit or rebrand a .pptx, .pptm, .ppsx or .potx;
• find and replace misses words because PowerPoint split them across runs;
• slides must be deleted, reordered or hidden (python-pptx has no API), or text_frame.text wiped formatting;
• a new deck must be built from the user's template, filling layout placeholders;
• you need slide images or a PDF (LibreOffice in a sandbox), or notes pages as a handout;
• a chart's numbers must change and its embedded workbook must follow;
• a deck came from outside (macros, OLE objects, linked pictures, click actions that run programs);
• a deck is about to be sent and may still hold speaker notes, comments, hidden slides or metadata;
• you automate PowerPoint with VBA, an Office.js add-in or Microsoft Graph.

Install

npx skills add skillsaas/microsoft-powerpoint    # skills CLI, reads SKILL.md at the repo root
npm install microsoft-powerpoint                 # files land in node_modules/microsoft-powerpoint/
# Planned, not yet published: npx @skillsaas/cli add microsoft-powerpoint

Or copy this folder into your agent's skills folder (for example `.claude/skills/` or `.agents/skills/`), then run `pip install -r scripts/requirements.txt`.

Try it: `python scripts/inspect_pptx.py tests/fixtures/deck.pptx`, then `python t