Pptx

This handles PowerPoint file creation, editing, and analysis through multiple workflows. For reading content, it converts presentations to markdown or unpacks the OOXML structure to access raw XML for comments, speaker notes, and formatting details. Creating new presentations uses an html2pptx converter that turns HTML slides into PowerPoint with accurate positioning. The documentation is notably opinionated about design, pushing you to think about color palettes and typography before writing code, with 18 example color schemes and specific layout patterns to avoid generic corporate templates. If you're automating presentation generation or need to extract structured data from existing decks, this covers both ends well.

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last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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Install

$ npx -y skills add ailabs-393/ai-labs-claude-skills --skill pptx --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

PPTX creation, editing, and analysis

Overview

A user may ask you to create, edit, or analyze the contents of a .pptx file. A .pptx file is essentially a ZIP archive containing XML files and other resources that you can read or edit. You have different tools and workflows available for different tasks.

Reading and analyzing content

Text extraction

If you just need to read the text contents of a presentation, you should convert the document to markdown:

# Convert document to markdown
python -m markitdown path-to-file.pptx

Raw XML access

You need raw XML access for: comments, speaker notes, slide layouts, animations, design elements, and complex formatting. For any of these features, you'll need to unpack a presentation and read its raw XML contents.

Unpacking a file

python ooxml/scripts/unpack.py <office_file> <output_dir>

Note: The unpack.py script is located at skills/pptx/ooxml/scripts/unpack.py relative to the project root. If the script doesn't exist at this path, use find . -name "unpack.py" to locate it.

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