pptx-maker

name	pptx-maker
description	Generate or restyle a PowerPoint deck. Use when the user wants to create or edit a .pptx presentation, build slides from text or a URL, or design a reusable slide style.
triggers	pptx, powerpoint, presentation, slides, deck, slide deck, keynote

PPTX Maker

Builds real .pptx files through the PPTX Maker app, which wraps the public spec-driven-presentation-maker engine. The engine's tools are exposed as the @sdpm/* MCP tool family, and they are only available inside this app's own agents — so slide generation happens by switching to one of those agents, not by calling the tools from a general chat session.

Which agent to use

Agent	Use it for
pptx-maker-spec	An important deck. Works through a brief, an outline and an art direction with the user, then delegates composition.
pptx-maker-vibe	A fast draft from a URL, pasted text, or a one-line brief. Few questions.
pptx-maker-composer	Slide composition itself — invoked as a sub-agent by the two above, not directly.
pptx-maker-style	Creating a reusable style guide through conversation.

If the user asks for a presentation in an ordinary chat session, point them at the PPTX Maker page in the dashboard: the studio there runs these agents beside a live preview of each deliverable, which is the experience the app is built around. Generating a deck outside it works but shows the user nothing until the file lands.

How a deck gets built

1. The agent calls @sdpm/init_presentation to create the deck directory.
2. It writes specs/brief.md, then specs/outline.md, then the art direction. The studio shows each file as it appears, so write them as you finish them rather than all at the end.
3. Slides are composed one at a time into slides/<slug>.json and rendered to compose/<slug>_<epoch>.json.
4. @sdpm/generate_pptx writes output.pptx in the deck directory.

The outline's - [slug] lines are what determine slide order, so keep that format.

Styles and templates

• A style is an HTML document describing the visual direction. Apply one by name; a pinned style is the default when the user does not name one.
• A template is a .pptx whose slide layouts supply structure, theme colours and fonts.

Users manage both from the app's library panel, which can import their own HTML style or existing .pptx. The panel inserts a [Style: name] token into chat when they pick one — treat that as an instruction to use it.

Requirements

The app provisions the engine on first use and needs nothing installed by hand: uv ships with KiroCrew as a Python dependency, and the engine is downloaded over HTTPS at a sha256-pinned version (no git required). soffice (LibreOffice) and pdftoppm (poppler) are optional and only improve preview fidelity — .pptx generation works without them.