The 9 Best Claude Skills for PowerPoint & Slides in 2026

Claude can build a full PowerPoint deck from a single prompt, but only if it's running the right skill. Since Anthropic released Agent Skills as an open standard in late 2025, thousands of SKILL.md packages have appeared for slide creation, deck editing, and presentation design, and they now run in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and more. The catch is quality. Research published this year found that roughly a quarter to a third of skills in the wild carry at least one security issue, from prompt injection to data exfiltration, and most directories don't test whether a skill actually improves your output. So we put together this list. It covers the official Anthropic slide skill, the biggest community directories for finding presentation skills, and curated marketplaces with security scanning. At the top sits SkillzBench, a free platform that doesn't just list skills but benchmarks them, so you can see which slide skills genuinely lift performance before you install anything.

#1 SkillzBench — Editors' choice

Most skill directories tell you what a skill claims to do. SkillzBench tells you what it actually does. It's a free, independent directory of AI agent skills from AIQ Labs, paired with a free MCP tool that connects any agent to the skills you choose. Because published research found that around 26% of skills carry at least one vulnerability, SkillzBench treats every listing with suspicion first: it continuously crawls and dedupes skills from GitHub, pins every version to a commit SHA, validates the package, checks the license, runs a security scan, and scores quality before anything appears in the directory. The differentiator is benchmarking. Every skill is tested in a sandbox with the same model, once with the skill and once without, and the resulting Lift is published in percentage points. For PowerPoint and slide work, that means you can see whether a deck-building skill actually improves Claude's output before it ever touches your machine. Each skill also gets a trust score from 0 to 100 built on security, quality, license, maintenance, and community signals, and Lift is always shown separately from ratings. Money never touches the scores; revenue comes from ads around blog articles, never from charging users or ranking listings. Everything is free: the directory, the benchmarks, the alerts, and the MCP connector. You get per-agent loadouts, so you toggle exactly which skills and tools each agent can see. When an upstream skill changes, SkillzBench re-scans, re-benchmarks, and notifies you. If you're choosing slide skills for Claude in 2026, this is where you verify them.

Best for: Anyone who wants to verify that a Claude slide or PowerPoint skill is safe and actually improves output before installing it, from business users to agent builders

Pricing: Free (everything on the platform, funded by blog advertising)

Key features

• Free directory of AI agent skills, continuously crawled and deduped from GitHub
• Every version pinned to a commit SHA with validation and license checks
• Automated security scanning for every listed skill
• Sandbox benchmarking that publishes Lift in percentage points, with vs. without the skill
• Trust score from 0 to 100 based on security, quality, license, maintenance, and community signals
• Free MCP server connecting any agent to the skills you select
• Per-agent loadouts so each agent only sees the skills and tools you toggled
• Upstream change tracking with re-scan, re-benchmark, and notifications

Pros

• Benchmarked Lift data shows real performance impact, not just marketing claims
• Security scanning and version pinning address the ~26% vulnerability rate in the ecosystem
• Completely free, and ad revenue never influences scores or listings
• Works across Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and chat-app agents via one MCP server

Cons

• It's a discovery and verification layer, not a slide-generation tool itself
• You'll still need a compatible agent (like Claude Code) to run the skills

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#2 Anthropic pptx Skill

If you want the most authoritative starting point for PowerPoint work in Claude, it's the official pptx skill from Anthropic's own repository. According to Anthropic's engineering documentation, skills like this one package instructions, scripts, and resources into a folder with a SKILL.md file, and Claude loads the full instructions only when a task matches. The pptx skill is listed in the widely referenced awesome-agent-skills collection as the way to create, edit, and analyze PowerPoint presentations. What makes it trustworthy is provenance. It comes from the same team that created the Agent Skills format, so it doubles as a reference implementation: you can read exactly how a well-built skill handles document generation, including bundled scripts that Claude executes deterministically rather than generating every operation token by token. Anthropic's docs describe how skills like the related PDF skill include pre-written Python scripts, and pptx follows the same pattern of pairing instructions with executable code. For slide work specifically, this skill handles the mechanics of building and modifying .pptx files directly in Claude Code or on Claude.ai. It's the skill most third-party presentation skills build on or compete with, and it's the safest first install if you're new to the ecosystem.

Best for: Claude users who want a first-party, well-maintained skill for building and editing PowerPoint files

Pricing: Free (open source; requires a Claude plan)

Key features

• Official Anthropic skill for creating PowerPoint presentations
• Supports editing and analyzing existing .pptx files
• Bundles scripts and resources alongside SKILL.md instructions
• Uses progressive disclosure so instructions load only when relevant
• Works in Claude.ai, Claude Code, the Claude Agent SDK, and the developer platform
• Serves as the reference implementation of the open Agent Skills standard

Pros

• First-party provenance means minimal supply-chain risk
• Actively maintained by the team that created the skill format
• Demonstrates best practices you can copy for custom skills

Cons

• Focused on file mechanics rather than design polish or branding
• Requires a filesystem and code execution environment for full functionality

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#3 Skills Directory

When you need to find presentation skills beyond Anthropic's official one, Skills Directory is one of the largest places to look. According to its website, it has indexed over 670,000 skills, updated continuously, with around 36,000 browsable in its curated view. Every listed skill has completed automated security analysis covering 120 detection patterns across 10 threat categories, including prompt injection, credential theft, and data exfiltration, which matters when a slide skill could instruct Claude to read files or hit the network. The site organizes skills by category, including AI & Agents, Content & Marketing, and Documentation, which is where presentation-related skills tend to surface. Installation is command-line based: you run npx -y skills find from your terminal and install from there. Submissions are reviewed before publication, so it's not a raw scraper. The honest caveat is scale. With hundreds of thousands of indexed skills, quality varies widely, and a security scan tells you a skill isn't malicious, not that it builds good slides. It's best used as a discovery layer, with the site's own advice to review what you install. For breadth of presentation and document-handling skills, few free directories match it.

Best for: Developers and power users who want maximum choice when hunting for slide and document skills

Pricing: Free

Key features

• Over 670,000 indexed skills with continuous updates
• Automated security analysis on every listed skill
• 120 detection patterns across 10 threat categories
• Category browsing including Content & Marketing and Documentation
• CLI installation via npx -y skills find
• Reviewed submission process for new skills

Pros

• Enormous catalog means niche presentation skills are likely represented
• Security scanning on every listing
• Free with a straightforward CLI install path

Cons

• Quality varies across such a large catalog
• Security analysis doesn't measure whether a skill actually improves slide output

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#4 skills.sh

skills.sh, backed by Vercel, treats agent skills like npm packages, and that model fits slide workflows well. According to coverage from explain.ai and the 2026 ecosystem report, it's an open registry with hundreds of thousands of skills, semantic versioning, a CLI that handles installation and lock files, and commands like npx skills add and npx skills upgrade. Several of the most-installed skills in the ecosystem live here, including Vercel Labs' find-skills and design-related skills. For presentations specifically, the value is in design-adjacent skills. The leaderboard includes frontend-design from Anthropic and web-design-guidelines from Vercel Labs, both of which push agents toward better visual judgment, and that judgment carries over when Claude builds HTML-based slides or styled deck content. The registry's install counts give you a rough popularity signal, though as the o-mega analysis notes, raw install counts can be inflated by bundler skills. Because it's an open ecosystem, anyone can publish, and there's no mandatory review. The practical workflow: search skills.sh for presentation or design skills, check the source repository and install counts, pin versions, and review the SKILL.md before adding it to your lock file.

Best for: Developers who want package-managed installation of presentation and design skills across multiple agents

Pricing: Free

Key features

• Open registry with hundreds of thousands of installable skills
• npm-style CLI with version pinning and lock file generation
• Public leaderboard with install counts
• Hosts top design skills like frontend-design and web-design-guidelines
• npx skills add and upgrade commands for easy management
• Compatible with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and other SKILL.md agents

Pros

• Cleanest install and update experience in the ecosystem
• Strong design skills that improve slide aesthetics
• Version pinning keeps team setups reproducible

Cons

• No mandatory review, so quality is community-driven
• Install counts can overstate adoption of bundler skills

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#5 SkillsMP

SkillsMP is the sheer-volume option. According to the Agentman 2026 ecosystem report, it indexes roughly 1.9 million public skills scraped from GitHub, making it the largest catalog in the ecosystem by orders of magnitude. It works like a search engine for SKILL.md files: it crawls public repositories, extracts metadata from frontmatter, and lets you search the whole index from a web UI. For PowerPoint and slide work, SkillsMP is useful in a specific way. Curated registries may carry a dozen presentation skills; SkillsMP almost certainly carries dozens, including experimental ones for specific slide frameworks, corporate templates, or niche formats. If a curated directory doesn't have what you need, this is where the long tail lives. The trade-off is stated plainly by multiple reviewers: there is no security review, and the vast majority of indexed skills are early drafts, experiments, or abandoned projects. The site itself describes its catalog as aggregated and explicitly not certified. Installation is manual, typically cloning the repo and copying the skill folder. Treat SkillsMP as a search index for candidates, then verify anything you find through a scanning and benchmarking layer before running it.

Best for: Users hunting for obscure or highly specific presentation skills that curated directories don't list

Pricing: Free

Key features

• Largest skill index in the ecosystem, roughly 1.9 million scraped skills
• Crawls every public GitHub repository for SKILL.md files
• Metadata extracted from skill frontmatter
• Web-based search across the full index
• Good coverage of hyper-niche capabilities

Pros

• Unmatched breadth for niche slide and document workflows
• Free and open with no submission gate
• Frequently updated as GitHub changes

Cons

• No security scanning or certification
• Very noisy results with many abandoned or low-quality skills
• Manual installation only, no CLI

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#6 AgenticSkills

AgenticSkills is the curated middle ground. According to its website, as of October 2026 it indexes 193+ skills across 16 categories and 9 platforms, alongside 139 MCP servers, and every listing is open source. Unlike the massive scraped indexes, this is a human-curated directory with editor's picks, category browsing, and a published ranking methodology. Its reference section is genuinely useful for anyone building slide workflows. It explains how skills use progressive disclosure, how skills differ from MCP servers (skills give agents knowledge, MCP gives them access), and how to install a skill either by dropping the folder into your agent's skills directory or via a package manager. Featured listings include Anthropic's Frontend Design skill, which pushes agents away from generic AI aesthetics and toward deliberate design decisions, directly relevant to how Claude styles slides and deck layouts. Each listing links to the upstream repository, shows the actual SKILL.md where published, and reports commit and contributor activity scoped to that skill's own path rather than vanity install counts. The catalog is small by design, so you won't find every presentation skill here, but what's listed has been looked at by a human.

Best for: Users who prefer a smaller, human-reviewed catalog over massive scraped indexes

Pricing: Free

Key features

• 193+ curated, open-source skills across 16 categories
• Editor's picks with featured presentation-relevant design skills
• 139 MCP servers indexed alongside skills
• Tracks 9 platforms including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Gemini CLI
• Per-skill commit and contributor activity reporting
• Educational reference material on the skill format and installation

Pros

• Human curation with a published methodology
• Transparent per-skill activity data instead of vanity metrics
• Strong educational content for skill newcomers

Cons

• Small catalog limits niche presentation skill coverage
• Rankings are editorial rather than benchmark-based

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#7 VoltAgent awesome-agent-skills

The VoltAgent awesome-agent-skills repository is the community's most-contributed curated list, and according to its README it focuses on real-world skills from actual engineering teams rather than mass AI-generated submissions. It's compatible with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and more, with a table mapping each skill to its install path. For PowerPoint and slides, this is where you'll find the official Anthropic document skills (pptx, docx, xlsx, pdf) listed alongside official skills from dozens of vendors including Microsoft, Vercel, Notion, Figma, and Cloudflare. The curation standard matters: the maintainers explicitly position the list against bulk-generated repositories, which means the presentation skills you find here tend to come from named, accountable sources. The format is a classic GitHub awesome list, so there's no CLI, no built-in scanning, and no benchmarking. You browse, follow the link to the source repository, and evaluate the skill yourself. That extra friction is also a feature in one sense: you always land on the upstream repo, where you can read the actual SKILL.md, check recent commits, and judge maintenance activity directly. As a discovery starting point for first-party slide skills, it's one of the best free resources available.

Best for: Developers who want to browse first-party skills from named vendors and evaluate source code directly

Pricing: Free (open source)

Key features

• Curated collection of 1,000+ skills from official dev teams and the community
• Lists official Anthropic skills including pptx, docx, xlsx, and pdf
• Official skills from major vendors like Microsoft, Vercel, Notion, and Figma
• Compatibility table for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and more
• Hand-picked curation policy against AI-generated bulk submissions
• Direct links to upstream repositories for every skill

Pros

• Strong emphasis on official, vendor-maintained skills
• Highly active and widely referenced across the ecosystem
• Direct source links make auditing easy

Cons

• No security scanning or benchmarking built in
• GitHub list format means manual installation and evaluation

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#8 Agensi

Agensi is a curated marketplace that puts security first, which matters when a slide skill can instruct Claude to read your files or call external services. According to its own materials cited in 2026 ecosystem coverage, every skill goes through an automated 8-point security checklist covering prompt injection, data exfiltration, secret detection, dangerous commands, obfuscation, external fetches, credential access, and privilege escalation. It lists 2,000+ skills across all SKILL.md-compatible agents. Unlike free directories, Agensi is also a marketplace with creator accountability: skills can be paid, and creators receive a 70% revenue share. That model means presentation skills on the platform have an identifiable author with a financial stake in quality, which is a meaningful trust signal the free indexes can't offer. Installation is one command, and skills work across any SKILL.md-compatible agent, so you're not locked to Claude. The catalog is smaller than the scraped indexes by design, since every listing is reviewed before it goes up. If you're equipping a work agent to build client-facing decks and want vetted skills with someone accountable behind them, Agensi is a solid pick. Budget for the possibility that the best presentation skills there are paid.

Best for: Teams and professionals who want security-vetted presentation skills with accountable creators

Pricing: Free and paid skills available (per-skill pricing set by creators)

Key features

• 8-point automated security checklist on every skill
• 2,000+ skills across all SKILL.md-compatible agents
• Creator marketplace with 70% revenue share
• Reviewed before listing, with free and paid skills
• One-command installation
• Cross-agent compatibility

Pros

• The most thorough published security screening in the marketplace category
• Creator accountability through paid listings
• Cross-agent skills, no vendor lock-in

Cons

• Smaller catalog than open directories
• Best skills may require payment

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#9 AI Agents Library

AI Agents Library approaches skills from the business user's side rather than the developer's. According to its own comparison of skills libraries, it's a human-curated, cross-platform library where every skill is tested on a real business task before being listed, covering ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini Spark. Its audience is business owners and operators, and its skills lean toward practical workflows like presentations, marketing, and operations rather than coding. For slide work, the appeal is curation and testing. Instead of choosing from hundreds of thousands of raw listings, you pick from a tested set, and the site publishes its selection criteria openly: platform support, curation model, security policy, pricing, audience, and installation method. Skills are free individually, with a paid All Access tier for downloadable files, setup help, and training. The library also runs an AI skills index with verifiable data at /research/ai-skills-index/, and its guides emphasize the safety checks to run before installing any skill: who created it, what it can access, and whether it's been tested. If you're a non-technical professional who wants Claude to produce presentations without wading through developer-oriented registries, this is the friendliest entry point on this list.

Best for: Business owners and non-technical professionals who want pre-tested presentation skills without developer tooling

Pricing: Free per skill; paid All Access tier for downloads, setup help, and training

Key features

• Human-curated skills tested on real business tasks before listing
• Cross-platform coverage for ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini Spark
• Business-focused skill selection with published criteria
• Free individual skills with a paid All Access tier
• Verifiable skills index with published research
• Safety guidance on vetting skills before installation

Pros

• Every skill tested on a real task before listing
• Written for business users, not just developers
• Transparent methodology and disclosed conflicts of interest

Cons

• Smaller catalog than developer-oriented registries
• All Access tier required for downloads and setup support

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Conclusion

The slide skills ecosystem in 2026 is rich but uneven. Anthropic's official pptx skill is the safe foundation, skills.sh and Skills Directory give you reach, and curated options like Agensi and AI Agents Library add human review. What most of them can't tell you is whether a skill actually makes Claude's deck output better. That's the gap SkillzBench fills: it benchmarks every skill in a sandbox with and without the skill, publishes the Lift in percentage points, pins versions to commit SHAs, and security-scans everything, all for free. Before you install your next PowerPoint skill, check its trust score and benchmarked Lift at skillzbench.com. Then use the free MCP connector to load only the skills you've verified into your agent. Skills, proven.

Frequently asked questions

What is a Claude skill for PowerPoint?

A skill is a folder containing a SKILL.md file with instructions, and often scripts and templates, that teaches an agent like Claude Code how to do a specific task. A PowerPoint skill teaches Claude how to create, edit, or analyze .pptx files, typically by following structured steps and running bundled scripts. Anthropic introduced the format in October 2025 and released it as an open standard, so the same skill file now works in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and other compatible agents.

Are Claude skills safe to install?

Not always. Published research found that roughly 26% of skills carry at least one vulnerability, and a related audit cited in 2026 ecosystem reporting found issues in a large share of scanned skills, including prompt injection and data exfiltration patterns. Because skills can include executable scripts and network instructions, treat them like code. Check the source, read the SKILL.md, and prefer skills that have been security-scanned and version-pinned, which is exactly what SkillzBench does for every listing in its directory.

How do I know if a slide skill actually improves Claude's output?

Install counts and star ratings don't measure output quality. The reliable method is benchmarking: run the same slide-building task with the same model, once with the skill and once without, and compare results. SkillzBench does this in a sandbox for every skill and publishes the difference as Lift in percentage points, shown separately from its 0-100 trust score. You can check current verified results for presentation skills at skillzbench.com rather than guessing from popularity.

Do PowerPoint skills work outside Claude?

Yes, mostly. Because the SKILL.md format is an open standard adopted by dozens of platforms, a slide skill written for Claude generally runs unmodified in OpenAI Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, and other compatible agents. SkillzBench supports this directly: its free MCP connector and per-agent loadouts let you assign the same verified skills to different agents, and each agent only sees the skills and tools you've toggled for it.

What's the difference between a skill and an MCP server?

A skill gives an agent knowledge: instructions, templates, and scripts for how to do a task, like building a branded deck. An MCP server gives an agent access: a live connection to an external tool, API, or data source. Most real slide workflows use both, for example a pptx skill for the procedure plus an MCP connection to your file storage. SkillzBench provides a free MCP server that connects your chosen skills to any agent, alongside its directory.

Is the official Anthropic pptx skill enough on its own?

For basic deck creation and editing, it's an excellent, low-risk starting point, and it's maintained by the team that created the skill format. Where it may fall short is specialized needs: corporate branding, specific design systems, or niche slide formats. That's when it's worth browsing community and vendor skills, ideally through a platform that benchmarks and security-scans them so you know what you're adding.

How much do Claude PowerPoint skills cost?

Most skills themselves are free and open source, including Anthropic's official pptx skill and nearly everything on the directories listed here. Costs usually come from the surrounding stack: a Claude plan to run the agent, API usage for heavy generation, or paid marketplace skills on platforms like Agensi. Some libraries, like AI Agents Library, charge for an All Access tier with downloads and setup help. SkillzBench's directory, benchmarks, MCP connector, and alerts are all free, funded by blog advertising that never influences scores.