Use this skill any time a .pptx 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 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, layouts, speaker notes, or comments. Trigger whenever the user mentions "deck," "slides," "presentation," or references a .pptx filename, regardless of what they plan to do with the content afterward. If a .pptx file needs to be opened, created, or touched, use this skill.
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96%
Does it follow best practices?
Impact
82%
1.54xAverage score across 14 eval scenarios
Low
Low-risk findings worth noting
The canonical home for this skill is gyan/pptx
PptxGenJS technical correctness
No '#' in hex colors
100%
100%
No 8-char hex opacity
0%
100%
No reused option objects
100%
100%
charSpacing not letterSpacing
100%
100%
breakLine for multi-line arrays
100%
100%
bullet: true not unicode
100%
100%
RECTANGLE for accent borders
100%
100%
margin: 0 for aligned text
0%
100%
paraSpaceAfter not lineSpacing with bullets
100%
100%
Shadow offset non-negative
100%
100%
Icons via react-icons + sharp
0%
100%
Chart modern styling
100%
100%
Slide design and visual QA
No accent lines under titles
0%
30%
No text-only slides
100%
100%
Varied layouts
44%
44%
No generic blue palette
100%
100%
Color dominance
85%
71%
Non-Arial font pairing
100%
100%
Title font size 36pt+
100%
33%
Body text left-aligned
16%
0%
QA conversion to images
0%
0%
Content QA with markitdown
0%
100%
Fix-verify cycle documented
25%
0%
0.5" minimum margins
0%
14%
Placeholder text cleared
100%
100%
PPTX XML editing workflow
Unpack before editing
0%
100%
Structural changes first
0%
100%
clean.py called
0%
100%
pack.py with --original flag
0%
100%
defusedxml.minidom used
0%
100%
Separate <a:p> per item
100%
100%
Bold headers with b="1"
100%
100%
No unicode bullets in XML
100%
62%
Smart quote XML entities
0%
28%
Excess template elements removed
0%
100%
xml:space preserve
100%
100%
No manual slide file copies
0%
100%
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