pptx

An agent skill by anthropics, from anthropics/skills. Tags: anthropic, design, documents, office, slides.

What it does

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 elsewhere, like in an email or summary); editing, modifying, or updating existing presentations; combining or splitting slide files; working with templates (.potx), layouts, speaker notes, or comments. Trigger whenever the user mentions "deck," "slides," "presentation," or references a .pptx or .potx filename, regardless of what they plan to do with the content afterward. If a .pptx or .potx file needs to be opened, created, or touched, use this skill.

Install

With the skills CLI, which installs into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents:

npx skills add anthropics/skills --skill pptx

Or copy the skill folder into Claude Code's skills directory by hand (~/.claude/skills for every project, or .claude/skills inside one):

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/skills
cp -r skills/skills/pptx ~/.claude/skills/pptx

Safety box score

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Source

Repository

anthropics/skills (all skills from this repository)

Path

skills/pptx/SKILL.md

Branch

main

Updated

2026-09-19

Related skills

• theme-factory — Toolkit for styling artifacts with a theme. These artifacts can be slides, docs, reportings, HTML landing pages, etc.
• brand-guidelines — Applies Anthropic's official brand colors and typography to any sort of artifact that may benefit from having Anthropic's look-and-feel.
• canvas-design — pdf documents using design philosophy. You should use this skill when the user asks to create a poster, piece of art, design, or other static piece.
• discernment-nudge — After you give a substantive answer or draft that the user may act on — advice or recommendations, drafted artifacts such as goals, plans, pitches, proposals.
• doc-coauthoring — Guide users through a structured workflow for co-authoring documentation.
• docx — dotx files). dotx', or requests to produce professional documents with formatting like tables of contents, headings, page numbers, or letterheads.