SlideCraft 发布：用 AI Agent 把目标生成咨询级演示文稿

Describe the goal. Pick a look. Ship a partner-ready deck.
Install · First deck in 10 minutes · Gallery site · Docs · Roadmap · Changelog

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.

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 — six finished decks to copy

Why it exists

SlideCraft is built by Denis Ermilov. Denis has 20 years in B2B FinTech and enterprise platforms 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

60 seconds

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

flowchart LR
  B["1 · Brief<br/>goal, audience, ask,<br/>what you'll do with it"] -->|✅ CP1| P["2 · Pick<br/>3 templates as<br/>contact sheets"]
  P -->|✅ CP2| S["3 · Storyline<br/>governing thought,<br/>SCR, key line"]
  S --> G["4 · Ghost deck<br/>action-title chain,<br/>exhibit sketches"]
  G -->|✅ CP3| W["5 · Build<br/>slides written in parallel,<br/>rendered by engines"]
  W --> R["6 · Review<br/>checks, copy-fit,<br/>partner review"]
  R -->|✅ CP4| D["7 · Deliver<br/>PPTX · PDF · HTML<br/>+ manifest"]
  classDef opus fill:#5B3FD1,color:#fff,stroke:#5B3FD1;
  classDef sonnet fill:#1F5FBF,color:#fff,stroke:#1F5FBF;
  classDef main fill:#0B1F3A,color:#fff,stroke:#0B1F3A;
  class S,G opus; class W sonnet; class B,P,D,R main;

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You approve four checkpoints; everything between them is automated. Work is tiered by difficulty:

• the strongest model does the storyline and the partner review;
• faster models write slides in parallel and fit copy.

In Claude Code that is Opus, Sonnet and Haiku. In Codex or any other agent, it is whatever models you configure. See workflow.

Template gallery

A template is a storyline (the shape of the argument for a task) × a theme (the look). Any storyline works in any theme. Fourteen storylines × six themes (or your own brand theme), built from forty layouts. The gallery site shows every storyline in every theme and the example decks in every format.

Strategy recommendation · Consulting Classic — answer first, three reasons, plan, ask	Executive update · Executive — steerco, board, QBR: plan vs actual vs forecast, decisions needed	Narrative story · Midnight — keynotes and talks: hook, journey, turning point, insight
Pitch deck · Modern Pitch — problem, solution, market, traction, team, ask	Research readout · Editorial — question, method, findings, implications	Client proposal · Corporate Blue — understanding, approach, plan, team, commercials

All 14 storylines → · All 6 themes → · All 40 layouts →

Also included: business case, product overview, case study, project kickoff, post-mortem, training / workshop, sales / customer QBR, investment memo. Bring your own outline and SlideCraft maps it onto layouts.

Small and quick: examples/europe-first-trip — a five-slide travel guide (2×2 value map, Harvey-ball fit by traveller type, budget chart, "who should go where" table), produced in a live end-to-end run with the plugin agents and with Codex, then curated.

Your brand: slidecraft theme import brand.potx --id contoso --font-dir ./fonts creates a theme with your colours, fonts and logo; slidecraft calibrate --theme ./slidecraft-theme/contoso.json checks line breaks against real PowerPoint (apply your brand). The template's pictures stay in place, its title band and slide size become the deck's frame (4:3 works too), and its Office theme travels into every PPTX.

Your old decks: slidecraft import old.pptx --render extracts text, tables, chart data, pictures and notes into a draft deck.yaml; /slidecraft:import then redesigns it slide by slide from the rendered original (import a PPTX).

Outputs and engines

One spec, several engines — you choose, SlideCraft recommends based on what you will do with the deck.

Recommended: pptxgenjs for anything that leaves your team; artifact-tool for internal drafts when you live in Codex (export SLIDECRAFT_PPTX_ENGINE=artifact-tool — falls back automatically); always a PDF — native for speed, pptx-convert when the PDF is the deliverable; HTML when you present from a browser.

slidecraft doctor shows what is available on your machine. Pros and cons of every engine: engines compared · choose an output engine · engine reference.

Install

Pick your agent. All of them drive the same CLI, the committed bundle dist/slidecraft.mjs (Node ≥ 22.12, no npm install).

git clone https://github.com/eiler2005/slidecraft && cd slidecraft
node dist/slidecraft.mjs build examples/strategy-recommendation/deck.yaml
open examples/strategy-recommendation/dist/northwind-germany.pptx

Write deck.yaml by hand: tutorial · deck spec · CLI reference.

What you get

Builds are deterministic: the same deck produces byte-identical PPTX and PDF.

Principles

• Answer first. The recommendation is on slide 2; everything after proves it.
• Action titles. Every title is a full-sentence claim; read top to bottom, the titles argue the case.
• One message per slide. The exhibit proves the title; detail goes to notes or backup.
• Every number has a source. Illustrative data is labelled. Nothing is invented.
• Editable, not raster. Text, tables and charts stay native objects.
• Never truncate. If text does not fit, SlideCraft says how many characters to cut instead of shrinking it into illegibility.

Methodology: writing standard · visual standard · exhibit selection · storytelling · review.

Layout library

Contracts, limits and thumbnails: layouts reference. Add your own: add a layout.

Roadmap

Shipped in 0.5:

• your numbers, once: facts: with {{id}}, and charts and tables read straight from Excel and CSV;
• the same number everywhere: a check flags a metric that shows different values on different slides;
• page-level sources: ingest reads PDF, Word, PowerPoint and Excel material; slides cite report#p14;
• edits flow back: sync brings text edited in PowerPoint back into the deck;
• frameworks and charts: SWOT, five forces, PESTEL, business model canvas, bubble and portfolio charts, marimekko, tornado, football field (40 layouts);
• every AI app: an MCP server and a one-line install for Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, Gemini CLI, Claude Code and Codex.

Next: stock photos, icons, live preview. See ROADMAP.md.

Contributing

Issues and PRs welcome — new layouts, themes and storylines especially. Start with CONTRIBUTING.md; npm run check runs lint, types and 780+ tests, including pixel-hash visual regression of every layout.

License and acknowledgements

MIT. Bundled fonts are SIL OFL (fonts/SOURCES.md). The consulting methodology generalises the author's earlier internal work. See NOTICE.