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Evidence record · captured 2026-10-10

Anthropic PowerPoint

A detailed production workflow for reading, creating, editing, validating, and visually inspecting PPTX and POTX files through PptxGenJS or direct OOXML operations.

Official publisherUnverifiedSource reviewedBehavior not tested
Source review

Editorial assessment

This is a source-only assessment. It does not claim runtime or security testing.

What it does

The skill selects a create, edit, or read path, catalogs concrete PowerPoint corruption hazards, prescribes template-safe OOXML operations, and requires content, schema, relationship, chart, and rendered-slide QA.

Best for

  • Creating a presentation with native charts and editable content
  • Editing an existing deck or POTX template safely
  • Diagnosing structural or visual defects in a PPTX

Strengths in the source

  • Documents unusually specific failure modes that other libraries may accept while PowerPoint rejects.
  • Keeps content, file-structure, and full-resolution visual QA as separate gates.
  • Provides practical template duplication, cleanup, validation, typography, and spacing rules.

Limitations

  • The license imposes material restrictions on copying, derivatives, and distribution outside authorized Anthropic use.
  • The workflow has a heavy toolchain and direct OOXML editing can still be fragile.
  • Visual rules are opinionated and must yield to an existing brand or template.

When not to use it

  • The required deliverable is not a PowerPoint-compatible file
  • Your use would conflict with the pinned Anthropic license terms

Reviewed by Retenta editorial on 2026-10-10; scope: source only.

Files included in this review
  • skills/pptx/SKILL.md
  • README.md
  • skills/pptx/LICENSE.txt

Evidence and boundaries

Execution · not tested

Retenta reviewed the pinned source but did not install or execute this skill.

Security · not tested

No sandbox run, dependency audit, or independent security assessment is claimed.

Pinned publisher source
skills/pptx/SKILL.md
Revision
dbd4588f9e1033efb41dad4bef2f7947c8993d44
License evidence
Anthropic source-available termsThe pinned LICENSE.txt reserves Anthropic's rights and limits use to the applicable Anthropic agreement, with additional restrictions on extraction, copying, derivatives, and distribution.
Last source change
2026-07-16
Independent verification
The source is controlled by Anthropic; Retenta has not independently verified its runtime behavior or security.
Upstream repository
Open publisher repository

Compatibility

Claude Code

documented

Anthropic documents these skills as Claude implementations distributed through its Claude Code plugin marketplace.

Requirements and access

  • The skill's helper scripts
  • PptxGenJS or OOXML editing tools
  • LibreOffice and Poppler for validation renders
  • Compliance with Anthropic's source-available license terms

Referenced tools

pptxgenjsmarkitdownLibreOfficepdftoppmOOXML validators

Install from the source

Anthropic documents this skill inside the document skill set; the command installs that set rather than one folder.

View the SKILL.md at its source Verify the publisher's install documentation

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Claude Code plugin install

/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills
/plugin install document-skills@anthropic-agent-skills

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