| name | pptxmotions |
| description | Use this skill to turn a go-to-market "motion" (a sales/partner play with audience-specific paths and KPIs) into a single, polished PowerPoint slide. Trigger whenever the user wants to summarize a motion, strategy play, or whiteboard/photo of a delivery plan onto ONE slide — especially with two audience tracks (e.g. SI vs ISV, Migration vs Adoption), KPIs, an enablement vehicle, and an "ask". Also use when the user references a whiteboard image of a business motion and wants it translated into a clean executive slide. Produces a Microsoft Fluent-styled .pptx via a parametric PptxGenJS generator (motion.js) driven by a JSON config. Do NOT use for generic multi-slide decks (use the base pptx skill) — this is specifically for one-slide motion summaries. |
| license | MIT. See LICENSE. |
pptxmotions
Turn a go-to-market motion into one clean, executive-ready slide.
A "motion" here = a delivery/partner play that usually has:
- two audience paths (e.g. System Integrators vs ISVs, Migration vs Adoption),
- a KPI per path,
- an enablement vehicle (e.g. "SQL in a Day", "Micro Hack"),
- and an ask (sponsorship, funding, meetings).
This skill renders that structure with a consistent Microsoft Fluent visual
system (navy / blue / teal, Segoe UI) using a parametric generator.
Quick Reference
| Task | How |
|---|
| Install as a Copilot CLI skill | Clone into ~/.copilot/skills/pptxmotions (see README) |
| Build a slide from a config | node motion.js my-motion.json out.pptx |
| See the schema | Read README.md |
| Start from an example | Copy examples/demo-motion.json |
| QA render to PNG (LibreOffice) | soffice --headless --convert-to png --outdir out out.pptx |
Workflow
- Gather the content. If the source is a whiteboard photo, read the image and
extract every element (titles, both paths, KPIs, partners, vehicle, the ask).
Translate to the target language if requested.
- Write a JSON config. Copy an example and fill in
header, pathways (1–2),
and bottom (work / vehicle / ask). See the schema in README.md.
- Generate:
node motion.js my-motion.json out.pptx
- QA (required). Render to PNG and visually inspect: no overflow, no overlap,
strong contrast, all source content present. Fix the config and re-render.
Design System
- Layout: 16:9 widescreen (13.3" × 7.5"). Dark navy header band with a teal
underline; two light pathway cards with a colored left accent bar; a dark
bottom band (
work panel + centered vehicle highlight + ask panel).
- Palette (default): navy
0B2447, blue 0078D4, teal 00B4A6, ink 1B2A3A,
card tints EAF3FB / E6F7F4. Override per-deck via theme in the config.
- Type: Segoe UI Semibold (headers) + Segoe UI (body). Title 25pt, section
headers 13pt, body 11–12pt.
- Motif: colored left accent bar on every card/panel; rounded "pill" tags and
chips; one accent-colored highlight line per bullet list.
Dependencies
- Node.js +
pptxgenjs (npm install pptxgenjs — already vendored in this skill).
- LibreOffice (
soffice) for PNG/PDF QA rendering (optional but recommended).
Examples
| File | Renders |
|---|
| examples/demo-motion.json | Fictional "Contoso Cloud" motion: migration (SI) + adoption (ISV), "Cloud in a Day" vehicle |
The example uses fake sample data — swap in your own content. A rendered
preview lives in assets/demo-motion.png.
Installation
This is a folder-based Copilot CLI skill. Install by cloning the repo into
~/.copilot/skills/pptxmotions and running npm install, then restart the CLI
and check /skills. Full steps (macOS / Linux / Windows) are in the README.
