SlideCraft

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Editable PowerPoint decks from one prompt. Describe the goal, pick a look, ship a partner-ready deck.

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Paste one prompt into ChatGPT, Claude or Codex and get an editable PowerPoint — action titles, sourced numbers and a review before hand-off. Not a picture of slides.

The easiest way: one prompt

No install, no YAML. Paste this into ChatGPT (agent mode), Codex, Claude or Claude Code — any assistant that can run code and open a link — and fill in the brackets:

Study the repository https://github.com/eiler2005/slidecraft (read AGENTS.md first) and use

SlideCraft to make me an editable PowerPoint deck.

Topic: [what the deck is about] For whom and why: [who will read it and what they should decide or do] Length: 15–20 slides Language: [English / Russian / …] Content: [your notes, key points, numbers with their sources, links or files] Style: [e.g. calm consulting look, dark keynote, or "match the colours of https://…"]

Follow the SlideCraft workflow: show me the action-title chain and 2–3 cover options before building, cite a source for every number, then give me the .pptx and a PDF.

The assistant runs npx @eiler2005/slidecraft on its side, writes the deck, checks it and hands you an editable PowerPoint. Tested with Codex and Claude Code on exactly this prompt — see what each made, unedited, with an independent review: Codex · Claude Code. ChatGPT in agent mode made a five-slide deck end to end from a shorter version of this prompt; the tool errors it hit on the way are fixed in 0.7.5. Claude.ai with code execution follows the same AGENTS.md; we have not run it ourselves yet. The content can be in any language. A chat without code execution can still write the deck.yaml; build it yourself with npx @eiler2005/slidecraft build deck.yaml. For repeat work, install it into your assistant (install).

What SlideCraft is

SlideCraft turns a goal into a consulting-grade presentation. You say what the deck must achieve and for whom. SlideCraft proposes templates for the task, builds the storyline and a ghost deck of action titles for you to approve, then writes the slides and renders them to an editable PowerPoint, an accessible vector PDF and a self-contained HTML deck — plus a one-pager and a Word memo when readers read rather than watch. A partner-style review closes the loop.

It works with any AI agent or LLM that can run a command:

• Claude Code — a plugin with skills and model-tiered agents;
• OpenAI Codex — installable skills;
• Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, Gemini CLI — an MCP server, connected with one install command;
• Aider or your own scripts — through AGENTS.md and a JSON CLI.

It works from your material: numbers come from your Excel or CSV files and are written once, sources cite the page of the report they come from, and text a colleague edits in PowerPoint flows back into the deck.

Underneath is one zero-install CLI. Every layout is measured with metric-compatible fonts, so text that fits in SlideCraft fits in PowerPoint — verified line by line against real PowerPoint output.

Why an editable PowerPoint from one prompt

Most AI deck tools end in a web page or a picture of slides, so someone rebuilds the deck in PowerPoint — where boards, clients and brand teams actually work. SlideCraft ends in a `.pptx` whose text, tables, charts, notes and icons are native objects, from one prompt in the assistant you already use. The model brings the words. SlideCraft brings what the model lacks:

• the consulting method;
• layouts with measured limits;
• PowerPoint's own text rules;
• source and number checks;
• a final visual review.

The deck is right the first time, and stays editable for the next round.

The honest limits.

• "One click" needs an assistant that can run code (ChatGPT agent mode, Codex, Claude with code execution, Claude Code).
• The quality comes from a few short approvals, not from skipping them.
• The content is only as good as the numbers and sources you give.
• PowerPoint is the reference; Keynote and Google Slides differ slightly.
• Editable decks are becoming standard in Copilot and Gemini. SlideCraft's lasting edge is the method and the checks, not the file format.

Full analysis: why an editable PowerPoint matters — and where the claim stops.

See it in action

This deck explains SlideCraft — and SlideCraft made it from one deck.yaml:

PDF · PowerPoint · one-page summary · all examples

New here? Start here — your first deck in ten minutes · What you can do — capabilities by job to be done · Example library — thirteen finished decks to copy

See the results yourself: a full run in every format with its review report in docs/showcase/orchestration-run/ · one deck in English and Russian made through the whole workflow in docs/showcase/fde-engineer/ (example) · originals next to SlideCraft's rebuilds and HTML, slide by slide, with npm run comparison → comparison/index.html · where to find what

Why it exists

SlideCraft is built by [Denis Ermilov](https://github.com/eiler2005). Denis has 20 years in B2B FinTech and enterprise platforms — payment systems at national scale, a cross-border payment hub with direct links to China, India and Southeast Asia, a dealer-network platform with Volkswagen Group's team in Berlin — and is Director of Product at Cinimex Group. Much of that time went into decks for joint projects with consulting firms such as McKinsey & Company, Accenture and IBM: board papers, strategy recommendations, steering-committee updates, proposals. That work taught a short list of rules: answer first, one claim per slide, every number sourced, never shrink text until it is unreadable. Most of those rules are mechanical, so this project turns that consulting practice into software an AI agent follows every time.

Denis also writes about AI beyond the hype: *Digital Bank* (2023) and *When Intelligence Became Cheap* (2026), part of a three-book series on people, companies and trust once intelligence becomes cheap. → Books on Amazon · GitHub profile

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you     › Make a deck: the board should approve a partner-led entry into Germany

agent › Brief: board of 5, decision = €6M phase-1 budget, deck goes out as PDF. Outputs: PPTX (pptxgenjs) + PDF rendered by PowerPoint, because readers get the PDF. ✅ CP1 agent › Three templates — opened picker.html: A Strategy recommendation · Consulting Classic (answer first, 3 reasons, plan, ask) B Strategy recommendation · Executive C Executive update · Corporate Blue you › A ✅ CP2 agent › Governing thought: "Entering Germany now captures a €40M window before two rivals scale" 01 Entering the German mid-market can add €40M revenue by 2028 02 Entering Germany now captures a €40M window before two rivals scale 03 The UK business is profitable, growing and ready to fund a second market … ✅ CP3 agent › Built 11 slides. Review: 0 blockers, 2 majors fixed, 1 minor left. ✅ CP4 slidecraft/northwind-germany/dist/northwind-germany.pptx · .pdf · previews/ · manifest.json

How it works

What a deck is made of. Four independent layers, all plain files you can read and diff:

Layouts turn the content into one Scene IR; engines translate it into editable PPTX, PDF, HTML, a one-pager and a Word memo. Text is laid out with PowerPoint's measured rules, so the HTML and the PPTX break lines the same way.

How it is assembled — eight stages, four checkpoints you approve (the top row of the pictur