Office Powerpoint

Read a PowerPoint file

Converts a .pptx to Markdown:

uv run --with python-pptx ~/.kiro/skills/office-powerpoint/scripts/read_pptx.py "<path_to_pptx>"

Save as .md file:

uv run --with python-pptx ~/.kiro/skills/office-powerpoint/scripts/read_pptx.py "<path_to_pptx>" "<output.md>"

Write a PowerPoint file

Preferred: Directly from markdown content (no intermediate file)

Pipe markdown content directly using --stdin:

echo '<markdown_content>' | uv run --with python-pptx ~/.kiro/skills/office-powerpoint/scripts/write_pptx.py --stdin "<output.pptx>"

For multi-line content, use a heredoc:

uv run --with python-pptx ~/.kiro/skills/office-powerpoint/scripts/write_pptx.py --stdin "<output.pptx>" <<'EOF'
# Slide Title
## Subtitle
- Bullet point 1
- Bullet point 2
> Speaker notes here
---
# Second Slide
- More content
EOF

From an existing Markdown file

uv run --with python-pptx ~/.kiro/skills/office-powerpoint/scripts/write_pptx.py "<input.md>" "<output.pptx>"

If you had to create the .md file as an intermediate step, delete it after generating the pptx.

Markdown format for slides

• --- separates slides
• # Title becomes the slide title
• ## Subtitle becomes a subtitle (bold, larger font)
• - item becomes bullet points
• > text becomes speaker notes
• | col | col | tables are rendered as slide tables
• Other text becomes body content

What gets extracted (read)

• Slide titles and text content with hierarchy
• Slide layout names
• Tables within slides as Markdown tables
• Speaker notes as blockquotes
• Bullet point levels preserved as nested lists