ppt-visual (claude-office-skills): a Claude skill that designs slide layouts, colors and fonts as written specs

ppt-visual makes Claude turn your slide text into a design spec with a layout wireframe, colors, fonts and icon ideas.

Installs: 12.3K; on skills.sh
Stars: 556; on GitHub
Updated: Jan 2026; last repo commit

Give Claude your slide content, the purpose of the talk and the audience, and pick a direction: minimalist, corporate, creative, data-focused or storytelling. You get a written design spec for each slide with a layout wireframe, where content goes, icon and image ideas, a color palette, fonts, animation tips and notes for building it.

It also redesigns text-heavy slides with a before and after. SKILL.md is clear about its limits. It cannot create PPTX files, generate images or open an existing deck, so you or another tool still builds the slides.

Good for

Anyone with a text-heavy deck who wants a clearer layout
Presenters who want a color and font scheme for a talk
Teams that hand slide specs to a designer or a PPTX tool

Install ppt-visual

Claude Code

Copy this prompt.

Install the ppt-visual skill in Claude Code. Run this command:

npx skills add https://github.com/claude-office-skills/skills --skill ppt-visual

Then check that it loaded and tell me how to use it.

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Paste it into Claude Code. It shows the change and asks before running it.

Requires Node.js.

From its listing on skills.sh. Source.

What's in the skill

When it loads

Design presentation visuals and slide layouts. Create visual concepts, suggest graphics, and provide design specifications for impactful PowerPoint slides.

Sections in SKILL.md

Overview
How to Use Me
Step 1: Share Your Content
Step 2: Choose Design Direction
Step 3: Receive Design Specs
Slide Layout Patterns
Title Slide
Big Statement
Three Columns
Image + Text (Split)
Data Highlight
Timeline
Comparison
Process Flow
Quote + Image
Output Format

Key facts

Author: claude-office-skills (author field in SKILL.md)
Repo: claude-office-skills/skills (ppt-visual)
License: MIT
Installs on skills.sh: 12,286 as of 2026-11-02
GitHub stars: 556 (whole repo) as of 2026-11-02
Last repo commit: 2026-01-31
Folder contents: 1 file: SKILL.md only
Version in SKILL.md: 1.0.0, category visualization, languages en and zh
skills.sh audits: Gen Agent Trust Hub pass, Socket pass, Snyk pass

What it includes

You give slide text, purpose, audience and any design problems.
Step 1: share content
Minimalist, corporate, creative, data-focused or storytelling.
Step 2: pick a direction
Layout wireframes, element ideas, color and font specs, icons and tips.
Step 3: design spec
Nine ASCII layouts from title slide to quote with image.
Slide layout patterns
A fixed template per slide with wireframe, content, visuals, palette and fonts.
Output format
One idea per slide, hierarchy, rule of thirds, contrast and alignment.
Design principles
Shows a text-heavy slide next to its visual redesign.
Before and after
Four color schemes and font pairings for professional, modern, classic and tech.
Color and font templates

From the official docs

Questions

What does ppt-visual do?

It writes design specs for slides. For each slide it gives a layout wireframe, content placement, icon, image and shape ideas, a color palette, typography, animation suggestions and implementation notes. It also covers before and after redesigns.

Does it create the PowerPoint file?

No. SKILL.md says it cannot create PPTX files directly, cannot generate images and cannot access existing presentations. The frontmatter lists create_pptx and md_to_pptx tools from an office-mcp server, so pair it with a PowerPoint tool if you want a file.

How do I install it?

Use the install box above. The skill is one SKILL.md file, so a folder copy or the skills CLI command is enough.

What layouts does it know?

Nine slide patterns: title slide, big statement, three columns, image and text split, data highlight, timeline, comparison, process flow, and quote with image. It also has four color schemes and four font pairing groups.

Does it need an API key?

No key is mentioned. The skill bundles no scripts and is a single SKILL.md file.

Is it safe?

It bundles no scripts. Claude reads the slide content you paste into the chat, and its icon, photo and color resources are lists of outside sites such as Flaticon and Unsplash that it may point you to. Remove anything confidential before you share a deck.

What is the difference from other office skills in the repo?

The related_skills field names ai-slides, md-slides, image-generation and chart-designer. They are separate skills from the same repo. ppt-visual only covers the visual design spec.

Information

updated Nov 2, 2026

Repository: claude-office-skills/skills
Folder: ppt-visual

claude-office-skills/skills skills.sh

Sources

Docs, issue trackers and discussions this page is built from.

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ppt-visual SKILL.md · github.com
ppt-visual on skills.sh · skills.sh