Top 9 No-Code Claude Skills for PowerPoint & Slides in 2026

Making a slide deck used to mean opening PowerPoint, dragging text boxes around, and burning an hour on formatting. In 2026, it means describing what you want to a Claude-powered agent and letting a presentation skill do the heavy lifting. Since Anthropic launched skills in October 2025, the ecosystem has exploded: community repositories now count tens of thousands of GitHub stars, and independent tests show the best skills can produce investor-grade decks in minutes. But the ecosystem is also messy. Published research found that roughly 26% of agent skills carry at least one vulnerability, and independent evaluations show that many pretty-looking skills produce slides made of loose shapes rather than editable PowerPoint objects. That's why this list pairs the strongest presentation skills of 2026 with a way to evaluate them safely. We've ranked nine options - from skill directories and benchmarking platforms to open-source PPT generators and HTML slide engines - with honest pros, cons, and pricing. Whether you need an editable .pptx a colleague can tweak, a browser-native deck for a conference talk, or a way to vet skills before installing them, there's an entry here for you.

#1 SkillzBench — Editors' choice

SkillzBench (skillzbench.com) is AIQ Labs' free, independent directory of AI agent skills, built for exactly the problem this listicle exposes: thousands of presentation skills exist, but nobody can tell which ones actually help and which are risky. Published research found that around 26% of agent skills carry at least one vulnerability, and SkillzBench is being built to fix that trust gap. The platform continuously crawls and dedupes skills from GitHub, then verifies each one - pinning every version to a commit SHA, validating it, checking its license, security-scanning it, and quality-judging it. Every skill is benchmarked in a sandbox with the same model, tested with and without the skill, and the resulting Lift in percentage points is published separately from ratings. A 0-100 trust score combines security, quality, license, maintenance, and community signals, and money never touches scores. SkillzBench is also equipping users with a free MCP server plus per-agent loadouts, so you can toggle skills and tools per agent and the agent only sees what you chose. It tracks upstream changes, re-scans, re-benchmarks, and notifies you when something shifts. Everything on the platform - the directory, the MCP connector, benchmarks, and alerts - is free; revenue comes from blog advertising, never from users, and ad money never influences scores or listings. The platform is pre-launch and actively being built, with the waitlist and newsletter live now.

Best for: Anyone installing Claude PPT skills - business owners, developers, prompt engineers, and agent builders - who wants to vet skills for security, quality, and real performance lift before trusting them

Pricing: Free (all features; revenue from advertising, never users)

Key features

• Free, independent directory of AI agent skills crawled and deduped from GitHub
• Every skill version pinned to a commit SHA and validated
• License checks and security scans on every listed skill
• Sandbox benchmarking that publishes Lift (percentage points) separately from ratings
• Trust score 0-100 from security, quality, license, maintenance, and community signals
• Free MCP connector plus per-agent loadouts so agents only see chosen skills
• Upstream change tracking with re-scans, re-benchmarks, and notifications
• Everything free - revenue comes from blog ads, never from users

Pros

• Addresses the ~26% vulnerability rate in agent skills with security scanning and license checks
• Benchmarks show Lift with and without a skill, using the same model every time
• Free MCP server and per-agent loadouts give fine-grained control over what each agent can access
• Independent: money never influences scores or listings
• Tracks upstream changes and re-benchmarks so you stay current

Cons

• Pre-launch: the product is still being built, so the directory, benchmarks, and MCP are not yet publicly available
• Waitlist/newsletter is live now; you can't browse live skill counts today
• Focuses on evaluating skills rather than generating slides itself

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#2 ppt-master

ppt-master by Hugo He is the most-starred presentation skill in the ecosystem, with roughly 38k-62k GitHub stars depending on the source and date, and it's MIT-licensed. Unlike skills that produce HTML or image-only slides, ppt-master turns source documents into real, editable PowerPoint files with native shapes and animations via an agent workflow. According to its SKILL.md, it's a routed presentation workflow covering generation, image-to-PPTX reconstruction, beautification, native PPTX editing, template creation, and template filling, with reusable Brand/Style/Layout/Deck workspaces. Independent testing by agentskillshub.top ranked it first for a PowerPoint file a colleague will edit: a native, structured PPTX that needed only touch-ups and scored 100% on their content rubric in about 11 minutes. The skill enforces a strict load order, blocking user gates, and integrity checks via an attribution guard script, and it supports narration and animation. If your hard requirement is an editable .pptx with native PowerPoint objects, this is the closest open-source option.

Best for: Teams and professionals who need a native, editable PowerPoint file a colleague can open and modify

Pricing: Free, open source (MIT); bring your own model key

Key features

• Generates real, editable PPTX with native shapes and animations
• Routed workflows: generate, image-to-PPTX, beautify, native edit, create template, fill template
• Reusable Brand/Style/Layout/Deck workspaces
• 187 Office preset contours and rich authored expression range (text, geometry, image, paint)
• Blocking user gates and integrity checks (attribution_guard.py)
• MIT-licensed and open source
• Works with Claude Code, Codex, and other SKILL.md-based agents

Pros

• Produces genuinely editable PPTX with native objects, not pictures of slides
• Scored 100% on content rubric in independent testing
• MIT license is safe for commercial use
• Large, active open-source project with high star count

Cons

• Longer generation time (~11 minutes in testing) than simpler skills
• Complex routed workflow with a steep learning curve
• Layouts are limited to what code can place; decks can look plainer than design-first alternatives

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#3 guizang-ppt-skill

guizang-ppt-skill, from the Chinese AI creator Guizang, generates polished HTML decks in strong editorial styles - magazine layouts and Swiss-grid typography that look designed rather than templated. With roughly 20.8k-27k GitHub stars, it's one of the most popular presentation skills in the ecosystem. In agentskillshub.top's October 2026 test run of 31 PPT skills, guizang-ppt-skill ranked first overall: web slides with native tables and animation, ready after only touch-ups, scoring 100% on the content rubric in about 10.3 minutes. OpenDesign describes it as the pick when you care about the deck reading as a crafted artifact. The trade-off is the output format: these are browser-presented web slides, so converting to .pptx loses fidelity, and you edit them in code rather than in PowerPoint. Note the AGPL-3.0 license if you plan to embed it in a closed product. For high-stakes presentations you'll present yourself from a browser, it's a strong choice.

Best for: Founders, speakers, and designers presenting browser-native decks who want maximum visual polish

Pricing: Free, open source (AGPL-3.0); bring your own model key

Key features

• Editorial HTML deck styles: magazine layouts and Swiss-grid typography
• Native tables and animation in web slides (editability L5 in independent testing)
• Scored 100% on content rubric in agentskillshub.top testing
• 20.8k+ GitHub stars, one of the most-starred PPT skills
• Works with Claude Code and other SKILL.md-compatible agents

Pros

• Ranked #1 in independent October 2026 testing of 31 PPT skills
• Design quality that looks crafted, not templated
• Native tables and animation support
• Ready after only touch-ups in testing

Cons

• AGPL-3.0 license requires care for commercial embedding
• Output is HTML, not editable .pptx - conversion loses fidelity
• Editing happens in code, not PowerPoint

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#4 frontend-slides

frontend-slides by Zara Zhang is the most-starred HTML slide skill in the space, with roughly 25k-30k GitHub stars, and it's MIT-licensed. It leans on a coding agent's frontend abilities to build slides as web pages - clean, modern, HTML-based decks you present in the browser, with full CSS control. OpenDesign calls it a great default if you want web-native slides. In agentskillshub.top's testing, the base frontend-slides skill produced decks ready after touch-ups, scoring 100% on the content rubric in about 6.2 minutes, with text-level editability (L1). A variant, frontend-slides-editable, reached structure-level editability (L3) in just 4.3 minutes, also scoring 100%. Because it's MIT-licensed, it's safe to use in commercial contexts. For developers comfortable living on the web platform who want fast, good-looking decks they can present from a browser, frontend-slides is one of the most reliable defaults in 2026.

Best for: Developers and technical presenters who want web-native decks with full styling control

Pricing: Free, open source (MIT); bring your own model key

Key features

• Clean, modern HTML-based web slide decks
• Full CSS control over design
• 25k+ GitHub stars - the most-starred HTML slide skill
• MIT license, safe for commercial use
• Fast generation (~6 minutes in independent testing)
• Editable variant (frontend-slides-editable) with structured output in ~4.3 minutes

Pros

• Fast generation with 100% content rubric scores in testing
• MIT license with no commercial restrictions
• Huge community and star count
• Full CSS control for custom design

Cons

• HTML output, not PowerPoint - no native .pptx export
• Base version offers only text-level editability
• Requires comfort with web technologies to customize deeply

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#5 dashiAI-ppt-skill

dashiAI-ppt-skill ("Master PPT") ships a dozen visual themes and a large layout library, and - unusually among design-forward skills - exports browser-editable presentations. With roughly 2.1k-9.2k GitHub stars, it's a smaller but distinctive project. In an independent subagent test run by Serge Bulaev, dashi-ppt-skill earned the nickname "the beauty": the test cover slide looked, in the reviewer's words, like a designer charged $2k for it. Under the hood it's a template orchestrator with real discipline - 12 themes, roughly 1,020 pre-built layout pages, 20 semantic roles, and per-layout contracts precise enough that an agent filled a deck blind and passed all three validators on the first render. Its philosophy is "lock the template, fill the copy," so styling is deliberately off-limits. Honest caveats from testing: the proprietary exporter emits text boxes only (no native tables or charts), some text clipping appeared in independent LibreOffice renders, and the SKILL.md is Chinese-only. It's AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Best for: Users who want beautiful, design-locked decks whose output a non-developer can still edit in a browser

Pricing: Free, open source (AGPL-3.0); bring your own model key

Key features

• 12 visual themes and a large layout library (~1,020 pre-built layout pages)
• Browser-editable presentation export - a non-developer can tweak the output
• Per-layout contracts (copyKeys, character budgets, array shapes) with three validators
• Everything runs locally with no paid APIs
• 20 semantic roles for structured content filling

Pros

• Exceptional visual quality in independent testing
• Editable output that non-developers can tweak
• Runs locally with no paid API dependencies
• Disciplined template system with automated validation

Cons

• No native tables or charts - exported elements are text boxes
• SKILL.md is Chinese-only, a barrier for English-speaking users
• Text clipping observed in some independent renders
• Styling is deliberately locked to templates

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#6 Anthropic Official pptx Skill

Anthropic's official pptx skill, part of the anthropics/skills repository, is what independent tester Serge Bulaev called "the boring, correct answer" - and that's high praise. It's the only entry in his eleven-skill test that treats a .pptx as a document format rather than a rendering target, producing real tables and real charts as native OOXML objects. The skill bundles a design rulebook, an XSD validator, and a mandatory render-and-look QA loop that caught every layout defect in testing. Its SKILL.md is roughly 240 lines of hard-won documentation covering twenty-odd gotchas - hex colors without #, negative shadow offsets corrupting files, chart axis pitfalls - and it explicitly bans classic AI-slide tells like accent bars under titles. It handles creating decks with pptxgenjs, editing existing decks and templates via direct XML manipulation, and reading content with thumbnail grids. Felo's testing scored its design quality 9/10 and export quality 9/10, noting it can load a company's .pptx template and generate slides inheriting exact fonts, colors, and layouts. The catch: content generation is basic - it assumes you supply most of the substance.

Best for: Enterprise teams with established corporate templates who need reliable, editable PowerPoint output

Pricing: Free with Claude; included in Anthropic's official skills repository

Key features

• Native OOXML tables and charts - genuinely editable in PowerPoint
• XSD validator that names the fix for each schema failure
• Render-and-look QA loop that catches layout defects
• Template support: slides inherit exact corporate fonts, colors, and layouts
• Thumbnail grid script for picking template layouts
• Documented gotcha rulebook (hex colors, shadows, chart axes, speaker notes)
• Proprietary license from Anthropic's official skills repository

Pros

• Only widely tested skill producing native tables and charts through its own pipeline
• Built-in validation and QA catch corrupt files before you see them
• Excellent template fidelity for brand-guideline decks
• Backed and maintained by Anthropic

Cons

• Content generation is basic - you supply most of the substance
• Primary create path assumes pptxgenjs is preinstalled
• Proprietary license rather than open source

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#7 Felo Slides

Felo Slides topped Felo's own two-week benchmark of ten AI PPT skills for Claude Code with a score of 54/60, ranking first in content, design, speed, and ease of use. What sets it apart from skills that just format text into slide shapes is a built-in AI research engine: given a prompt, it runs a live web search, gathers current data, structures a narrative arc, and generates slides with real substance. In the benchmark's investor pitch test, it spent about 90 seconds researching the market, then generated a 10-slide deck in roughly 3 minutes total - complete with specific market size figures with sources, a competitive landscape with actual company names, realistic traction metrics formatted as charts, and a logical narrative flow. The .pptx export opened perfectly in both PowerPoint and Google Slides with no formatting issues, per the testing. It supports 50+ languages with native phrasing, accepts brand template uploads in .pptx format, and processes asynchronously so it doesn't block your terminal. It requires a Felo API key, with a free tier available.

Best for: Developers, founders, consultants, and researchers who need data-backed presentations fast

Pricing: Requires a Felo API key; free tier available

Key features

• Built-in AI research engine that gathers real data before generating
• Ranked #1 in Felo's 2026 benchmark of 10 AI PPT skills (54/60)
• 50+ language support with native phrasing
• Brand template upload in .pptx format
• Async processing that doesn't block your terminal
• Clean .pptx export verified in PowerPoint and Google Slides

Pros

• Research-backed content with sources, not generic filler
• Fast: full 10-slide deck in roughly 3 minutes
• Clean export to PowerPoint and Google Slides
• Free API tier to get started

Cons

• Requires a Felo API key
• Benchmark results come from Felo's own testing
• Integration score (8/10) was its weakest dimension in testing

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#8 codex-ppt-skill

codex-ppt-skill by ningzimu is an image-first presentation skill: it turns articles, reports, papers, and course notes into image-based PowerPoint decks by planning the outline and visual style, generating each full-slide image, then assembling the images into a .pptx with a local script. It works across multiple agents - Codex, Claude Code, OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, and other SKILL.md-based environments - though Codex is recommended because it can use built-in image generation. The skill offers 12 built-in style references (clean professional, scientific defense, McKinsey style, hand-drawn technical explainer, and more), supports custom style replication from a favorite image or PDF, and builds a reusable personal style library that survives skill updates. It uses a guided, staged workflow - confirming outline, slide count, visual style, and a sample slide before full-deck generation - and writes speaker notes into each slide during assembly. The trade-off, acknowledged in its own README: slide elements aren't directly editable, since text is pixels. The project is MIT-licensed with several thousand GitHub stars.

Best for: Users who want visually striking, image-forward decks where each slide is a designed image

Pricing: Free, open source (MIT); image generation API costs may apply

Key features

• Image-based PPTX generation using GPT-Image-2 or compatible endpoints
• 12 built-in style references including McKinsey style and hand-drawn explainer
• Custom style replication from an image, PDF, or existing PPTX
• Personal style library that survives skill updates
• Guided staged workflow with sample-slide confirmation
• Speaker notes (speech.md) written into each slide
• Parallel subagent generation with self-checking
• MIT license

Pros

• The most striking visual output of any tested skill category
• 12 built-in styles plus custom style replication
• Works across Codex, Claude Code, and other SKILL.md agents
• Personal style library makes favorite looks reusable

Cons

• Slide text is pixels - not editable without redrawing
• Independent testing found decks needed substantial rework before handover
• Requires an image generation API key/endpoint
• Workflow is more complex than most users need every day, per its own README

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#9 Slidev Skill

The Slidev skill generates web-based slide decks using Markdown and Vue.js, producing interactive HTML presentations rather than traditional .pptx files. In Felo's 2026 benchmark of ten AI PPT skills for Claude Code, Slidev scored 42/60, with its strongest dimension being workflow integration at 9/10 - it integrates beautifully with other Claude Code workflows, letting you generate slides that pull live data from APIs or display real-time code execution. That makes it especially powerful for developer conferences, internal tech talks, and engineering reviews, where live code demos, interactive diagrams, and embedded visualizations matter more than PowerPoint compatibility. The trade-off is significant for business contexts: you can't export to PowerPoint - the output is a web page - which Felo's testing flagged as a dealbreaker for many business settings. Slidev itself is a mature open-source presentation framework, and the skill wraps it so a coding agent can generate decks from a plain-language description or Markdown outline. If your audience is technical and your presentation lives in a browser, it's an excellent fit; if your CFO needs to edit the file afterward, look higher on this list.

Best for: Developers presenting to technical audiences at conferences, tech talks, and engineering reviews

Pricing: Free, open source; bring your own model key

Key features

• Web-based slide decks built with Markdown and Vue.js
• Interactive HTML presentations with live code demos
• Highest workflow integration score (9/10) in Felo's benchmark
• Can pull live data from APIs and display real-time code execution
• Built on the mature open-source Slidev framework
• Developer-friendly Markdown-based authoring

Pros

• Best-in-class integration with other agent workflows
• Interactive elements: live code demos and embedded visualizations
• Markdown authoring is fast and familiar to developers
• Free and open source

Cons

• No PowerPoint export - output is a web page only
• Export quality scored just 5/10 in Felo's testing
• Poor fit for business contexts requiring editable .pptx files
• Ease of use scored 6/10 for non-developers

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Conclusion

The Claude presentation-skill ecosystem in 2026 is genuinely impressive - and genuinely risky to navigate blind. Independent testing shows the best skills can produce investor-grade, fully editable PowerPoint in minutes, but it also shows that many beautiful skills produce slides made of loose shapes, that image-first decks can't be edited without redrawing, and that published research found roughly 26% of agent skills carry at least one vulnerability. The right move is to match the skill to your deliverable - native PPTX for decks a colleague will edit, HTML slides for decks you present yourself - and to vet every skill before you install it. That's where SkillzBench comes in: a free, independent directory that security-scans, license-checks, and benchmarks agent skills, publishing trust scores and real performance Lift so you can choose with evidence instead of star counts. The platform is being built right now, and the waitlist and newsletter are live. Skills, proven - join the SkillzBench waitlist today and be first in line when the directory, benchmarks, and free MCP connector go public.

Frequently asked questions

Can Claude actually make a PowerPoint file?

Yes. Install a PPT skill for Claude Code or another SKILL.md-compatible agent and describe the deck in plain language - topic, audience, tone, and slide count. Some skills, like ppt-master and Anthropic's official pptx skill, generate native, editable .pptx files with real tables and charts. Others, like frontend-slides and guizang-ppt-skill, produce HTML decks you present in a browser. The key distinction from independent testing: many visually impressive skills produce slides made of text boxes and images rather than native PowerPoint objects, so check editability before you commit.

What makes SkillzBench different from just searching GitHub for skills?

GitHub star counts measure popularity, not safety or performance. SkillzBench is being built as a free, independent directory that continuously crawls and dedupes skills from GitHub, then verifies each one: pinning versions to a commit SHA, validating, license-checking, security-scanning, and quality-judging. It benchmarks every skill in a sandbox with the same model, with and without the skill, and publishes the Lift in percentage points separately from ratings. A 0-100 trust score combines security, quality, license, maintenance, and community signals - and money never touches scores. Everything is free, funded by blog advertising rather than user fees. The platform is pre-launch; the waitlist and newsletter are live now.

Are Claude PPT skills free to use?

Most of the skills in this guide are open source and free - you supply your own model API key. ppt-master, frontend-slides, and codex-ppt-skill are MIT-licensed, which is safe for commercial use. guizang-ppt-skill and dashiAI-ppt-skill are AGPL-3.0, which requires care if you embed them in a closed product. Anthropic's official pptx skill is proprietary but included with Claude. Felo Slides requires a Felo API key with a free tier available. SkillzBench itself will be entirely free, supported by advertising around its blog content.

Should I choose an editable PPTX skill or an HTML slide skill?

Use the next-stop rule from independent testing: if a colleague will edit the deck after you, choose a native PPTX skill like ppt-master or Anthropic's official pptx skill. If you'll present it yourself from a browser or a link, an HTML skill like guizang-ppt-skill or frontend-slides gives the most design freedom and animation. Image-first skills like codex-ppt-skill produce the most striking visuals, but the text is pixels - fixing a typo means redrawing the slide. If you must hand in a .pptx but want it to look designed, plan for a converter and an extra review pass.

How risky is it to install third-party Claude skills?

Meaningfully risky. Published research found that roughly 26% of agent skills carry at least one vulnerability. Security guidance in the ecosystem recommends auditing every bundled script for undocumented network calls before installing community skills from less-trusted sources, and independent testing found some skills flagged CAUTION or UNSAFE purely for how they install (sudo or curl-piped shell installers). This is exactly the problem SkillzBench is being built to solve: security scans, license checks, version pinning, and sandbox benchmarking for every skill, free for everyone. Until it launches, read the full SKILL.md and prefer well-known repositories.

Do these skills work with agents other than Claude Code?

Many do. Skills are packaged as SKILL.md instruction files, and several projects in this list explicitly support multiple agents: ppt-master works with Claude Code and Codex (the author also lists Trae, Cursor, and CodeBuddy IDE), codex-ppt-skill supports Codex, Claude Code, OpenClaw, and Hermes Agent, and HTML slide skills broadly work with Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, OpenClaw, and Hermes. Codex is the recommended environment for codex-ppt-skill because it can use built-in image generation. SkillzBench's planned free MCP server and per-agent loadouts are designed to let you connect chosen skills to any agent, with the agent only seeing what you toggled on.

How fast can these skills generate a deck?

It varies widely by skill and quality level. In agentskillshub.top's October 2026 test of 31 PPT skills, generation times ranged from under 2 minutes (mckinsey-pptx at 1.9 minutes) to over 16 minutes (ppt-agent-skills at 16.2), with top performers like ppt-master taking about 11 minutes for a fully editable, 100%-content-score deck and frontend-slides-editable doing the same in 4.3 minutes. Felo's benchmark clocked Felo Slides at roughly 3 minutes for a 10-slide research-backed deck. Higher visual quality generally trades against speed, so decide whether the deadline or the polish matters more before you pick.