# Ppt Script Authoring

Design and build a deck as a python-pptx program: your own layout system, the source's...

- Repository: https://github.com/EverMind-AI/Raven (5958 stars)
- Category: Design
- License: Apache-2.0
- Last updated: 2026-11-01
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add EverMind-AI/Raven --skill ppt-script-authoring -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add EverMind-AI/Raven --skill ppt-script-authoring -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add EverMind-AI/Raven --skill ppt-script-authoring -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add EverMind-AI/Raven --skill ppt-script-authoring -g -a gemini-cli -y`

## Description

Design and build a deck as a python-pptx program: your own layout system, the source's own figures, charts you draw, and a template's design when the user gave one.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# Deck authoring

You design the deck and you build it, by writing a python-pptx program that
`ppt_build` runs. Every page is yours: the grid, the type scale, the palette, the page
furniture, where a figure sits and how large. What refuses a deck and what only reports
is in §12.

## 1. Define the communication job

Infer the audience, the deck's job, the outcome you want, the central takeaway and
the evidence that supports it. Build a cumulative argument rather than an inventory
of topics: each content page performs one narrative job and makes one primary claim.

Write audience-facing titles that state the point. Open with the context, question
or stakes that make the deck worth sitting through. Close by resolving that opening, a decision, an implication, a next question, on the last content page. The
template's closing page ends the deck after it, as its cover opens it: both are the
house frame and carry no argument of their own.

Pack the evidence before allocating pages. A page carries one claim and the developed
support that claim takes, and what makes the support developed is that it is more than
one kind of thing: evidence from the source, a mechanism or a comparison, an
implication or a constraint. Nothing counts the kinds, and how much copy a page ends up
with is measured rather than allocated (§2). If the evidence cannot support a complete
argument, merge the page rather than enlarging fragments.

The rest: https://github.com/EverMind-AI/Raven/blob/HEAD/plugins-dist/ppt-engine/raven_ppt/skill/ppt-script-authoring/SKILL.md