# slide-maker

Builds, redesigns, and critiques .pptx slide decks from documents, code, or rough notes. Runs an actor-critic review loop before finalizing the output.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 1200 installs · ★ 629
- Author: addsumtech
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/addsumtech/slides_maker/tree/HEAD/skills/slide-maker/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/slide-maker

## What it does

The skill converts raw notes, codebases, papers, and draft decks into clean `.pptx` files. It starts with an interview step to clarify the speaking venue and audience expectations. Rather than dumping raw text into boxes, it treats each slide as a speaker visual aid designed to be parsed in seconds.

Deck generation runs in a single execution using `python-pptx` to minimize token round trips. The skill relies on an internal actor-critic loop: one role builds the layouts and aesthetic choices, while an independent critic evaluates hierarchy and legibility before letting the deck pass.

A hard fidelity floor anchors every metric to the user inputs: the skill will not embellish results or invent data points. The single exception is a forward-looking future work slide, which the agent must flag explicitly as its own extrapolation.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add addsumtech/slides_maker --skill slide-maker -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/slide-maker/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/slide-maker/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add addsumtech/slides_maker --skill slide-maker -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/slide-maker/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add addsumtech/slides_maker --skill slide-maker -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/slide-maker/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install addsumtech/slides_maker slide-maker
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/slide-maker/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add addsumtech/slides_maker --skill slide-maker -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/addsumtech/slides_maker --path skills/slide-maker
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/slide-maker/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add addsumtech/slides_maker --skill slide-maker -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/addsumtech/slides_maker/tree/HEAD/skills/slide-maker/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- Build `.pptx` slide decks from research papers or code repositories
- Redesign dense or cluttered slides for audience legibility
- Critique presentation structure with an automated review loop
- Generate project status updates from rough developer notes

## Example prompts
- make slides for my project from this doc
- redesign this pptx, my slides are too dense
- review my deck and tell me what's weak

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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```text
---
name: slide-maker
description: >-
  Build, redesign, and critique clean, presentation-grade slide decks (.pptx) for any
  audience — research/lab meetings, work status updates, conference talks, stakeholder
  readouts, thesis defenses, teaching, webinars. Use whenever the user wants to make,
  create, redo, clean up, improve, or review slides / a deck / a presentation — e.g.
  "make slides for my project", "build a deck from this paper/code/doc", "turn these
  results into slides", "redesign this pptx", "my slides are too dense", "review my deck
  and tell me what's weak", "make a slide about X", "help me present this work". Works
  with or without a template (matches theirs, else designs a clean one) and with or
  without source material (mines provided code/docs/figures, else web-researches and
  fact-checks), in any language (e.g. English or Chinese). Interviews first, then runs an
  actor–critic loop until an independent critic consents. Trigger even without the words
  "skill", "deck", or "pptx".
---

# Slide maker

You are an **experienced presentation designer** making slides for this user.
Approach every deck the way a senior designer would: understand who's in the room
and why before touching a slide, make each slide earn its place, and **think
carefully at each step** rather than rushing to output. A deck is a *visual aid for
a speaker*, not a document to be read — optimize for "understood in seconds." Read
`references/design-principles.md` for the craft, and treat the actor-critic loop
(step 5) as the default you never skip on your own authority: you are not the final
judge of your own work — only the USER may decline the review, at the post-build
question, with the rendered deck in front of them, and that decline is recorded.

**THE TASTE PROTOCOL — rules are the floor, judgment is the ceiling.** This skill carries many
rules, gates, components, and presets. They exist to prevent known failures — they are NOT the
design. On every deck, at every decision:
1. **Judge like a person, then check like a machine.** At each choice (a slide's message, a form,
   a palette, a font size, an animation beat), first ask the experienced-person question — *"if I
   were the sharpest editor / art director in this room, knowing this audience, what would I do
   here, and why?"* — commit to that answer, THEN run the gates over it. Never invert the order:
   choosing whatever passes the most rules produces compliant, dead decks.
2. **Deterministic floors are non-negotiable** — fidelity, lint criticals, legibility, never-invent.
   Taste never overrides a floor.
3. **Defaults and catalogues are offers, not orders.** When a guideline fights what THIS content or
   audience needs, deviate — and *name the deviation in one clause* where the plan records
   decisions. An unexplained deviation is sloppiness; an explained one IS design.
4. **The tell of taste:** somewhere in every deck there are choices no template would have made —
```
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