PPTX Reference Deck Analysis
Seth HobsonCommunityCreated by kimtthDistributed by Seth Hobson
- Skill
- Research and analysis
- Documents and content
- MIT
- Low risk
- Has scripts
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This skill provides a secure, read-only framework for inspecting PowerPoint (.pptx) files to extract design evidence and structural metadata. It is designed to help users understand the layout, typography, theme, and OOXML package integrity of a reference deck, facilitating the creation of new presentations based on existing design patterns without directly copying or mutating the source files.
What it does
- Extracts slide counts, text summaries, and shape counts from PPTX files.
- Analyzes design elements including theme colors, fonts, and layout rhythm.
- Performs OOXML package diagnostics to identify malformed XML or broken relationships.
- Generates a derived template catalog from source deck masters and layouts.
- Provides tools for raw package inspection, including relationship mapping and media identification.
- Maintains a strict read-only policy to ensure source deck integrity.
When to use it
- When you need to reverse-engineer the design system of an existing presentation.
- When auditing a deck for structural errors or broken internal relationships.
- When you need to extract specific layout or theme data to inform a new presentation project.
- When performing security-conscious inspection of untrusted OOXML packages.
Advantages
- Ensures source files remain unmodified and safe from accidental changes.
- Provides granular visibility into the underlying OOXML structure.
- Includes built-in safety measures against malicious XML content.
- Facilitates consistent design by extracting reusable layout and theme tokens.
Usage examples
- “Analyze the structure and theme of corporate-deck.pptx to create a style guide.”
- The agent will output a report detailing the color scheme, font usage, and layout patterns found in the deck, providing a basis for a new template.
- “Check the integrity of legacy-presentation.pptx for broken links or malformed XML.”
- The agent will run a validation script and return a manifest highlighting any orphaned parts or content-type gaps within the package.
Install
Download the skill as a ZIP:
https://mp-staging.autogineer.com/agent-skills/wshobson/pptx-reference-deck-analysis/downloadUnzip it into the cross-client skills folder of your project:
mkdir -p .agents/skills && unzip pptx-reference-deck-analysis.zip -d .agents/skills
Documentation by kimtth
PPTX Reference Deck Analysis
Inspect a reference deck as design evidence. This skill never copies, clones, or mutates a source deck.
Contract
Implement required extraction on demand with a small task-local python-pptx script. Capture only the information required for the new deck:
compact prompt context: slide count and size, text summaries, shape counts, styles, brand signals, template use, and layout rhythm;
full extraction:
summary, slides, and read-onlylayout_treeevidence;folder diagnostics: one result per deck plus a manifest;
style-master analysis: colors, fonts, size distribution, master/layout use, and flow patterns;
derived template catalog: zero-based source indices, layout roles, usable regions, placeholders, visual structures, and constraints.
Rules
Keep the source deck read-only and independently author every target-slide coordinate.
Use the bundled OOXML utilities only for raw themes, relationships, notes, comments, animations, media, masters, or layouts that high-level extraction cannot expose.
Record inspected parts and parsing exceptions in the analysis manifest.
Do not use extracted content, fonts, images, or proprietary assets in a generated deck without explicit permission and license evidence.
OOXML package inspection
Install defusedxml from requirements.txt before using the bundled utilities.
Run
scripts/inspect.py <deck.pptx>for a compact JSON report of slide order, text, theme tokens, relationships, notes, comments, animations, and media.Run
scripts/validate_package.py <deck.pptx> --output <report.json>for malformed XML, broken internal relationships, content-type gaps, duplicate layout links, and orphaned parts.Run
scripts/unpack.py <deck.pptx> <output-dir>only when raw-package evidence is necessary.Resolve relationship targets relative to the
.relsowner; never infer slide order from filenames.
Safety
Never modify a supplied deck or blindly copy package parts into a new deck.
Run the scripts from a trusted workspace; they reject path traversal, symlinks, oversized members, and archive bombs.
Parse untrusted XML with
defusedxml; do not enable entity expansion, DTD loading, or network access.Treat theme colors as tokens unless fully resolved against the color scheme.
See references/reference-deck-analysis.md for output shapes, references/reference-deck-analysis-patterns.md for documentation-only patterns, and references/ooxml-parsing.md for package part maps.
Files
- ATTRIBUTION.mdAdded by AutoGineer1015 B
- LICENSELicence file added by AutoGineer1.0 KiB
- SKILL.md2.7 KiB
- references/ooxml-parsing.md1.1 KiB
- references/reference-deck-analysis-patterns.md1.2 KiB
- references/reference-deck-analysis.md1.5 KiB
- requirements.txt19 B
- scripts/inspect.pyScript5.9 KiB
- scripts/unpack.pyScript3.0 KiB
- scripts/validate_package.pyScript9.5 KiB
scripts/inspect.py
#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Read a PPTX OOXML package into a compact, JSON-safe inspection report."""
from __future__ import annotations
import json
import posixpath
import stat
import sys
import zipfile
from collections import Counter
from pathlib import Path, PurePosixPath
from defusedxml import ElementTree as ET
P = "{http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/presentationml/2006/main}"
A = "{http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main}"
R = "{http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships}"
PR = "{http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/package/2006/relationships}"
MAX_MEMBERS = 5_000
MAX_MEMBER_SIZE = 100 * 1024 * 1024
MAX_TOTAL_SIZE = 512 * 1024 * 1024
MAX_COMPRESSION_RATIO = 1_000
def _write_stdout(value: str) -> None:
"""Write UTF-8 JSON without depending on the console code page."""
sys.stdout.buffer.write(value.encode("utf-8"))
def _workspace_path(value: str) -> Path:
root = Path.cwd().resolve()
path = Path(value).expanduser().resolve()
if not path.is_relative_to(root):
raise ValueError(f"Path escapes the current workspace: {value}")
return path
def _validate_archive(archive: zipfile.ZipFile) -> None:
members = archive.infolist()
if len(members) > MAX_MEMBERS:
raise ValueError("Archive contains too many entries")
total = 0
for member in members:
if stat.S_ISLNK(member.external_attr >> 16):
raise ValueError(f"Archive contains a symlink: {member.filename}")
if member.file_size > MAX_MEMBER_SIZE:
raise ValueError(f"Archive entry is too large: {member.filename}")
total += member.file_size
if total > MAX_TOTAL_SIZE:
raise ValueError("Archive uncompressed size is too large")
if member.compress_size and member.file_size / member.compress_size > MAX_COMPRESSION_RATIO:
raise ValueError(f"Suspicious compression ratio: {member.filename}")
def _source_part(rels_name: str) -> str | None:
path = PurePosixPath(rels_name)
if str(path) == "_rels/.rels":
return ""
if path.parent.name != "_rels" or not path.name.endswith(".rels"):
return None
return str(path.parent.parent / path.name.removesuffix(".rels"))
def _part_target(rels_name: str, target: str) -> str | None:
source = _source_part(rels_name)
if source is None:
return None
if target.startswith("/"):
resolved = posixpath.normpath(target.lstrip("/"))
else:
resolved = posixpath.normpath(posixpath.join(posixpath.dirname(source), target))
return resolved if resolved not in {"", ".", ".."} and not resolved.startswith("../") else None
def _xml(archive: zipfile.ZipFile, name: str):
return ET.fromstring(archive.read(name))
def _relationships(archive: zipfile.ZipFile, name: str) -> dict[str, dict[str, str]]:
if name not in archive.namelist():
return {}
relationships = {}
for item in _xml(archive, name).findall(f"{PR}Relationship"):
mode = item.get("TargetMode", "Internal")
target = item.get("Target", "")
relationships[item.get("Id", "")] = {
"type": item.get("Type", "").rsplit("/", 1)[-1],
"target": target if mode == "External" else _part_target(name, target),
"mode": mode,
}
return relationships
def inspect(path: str) -> dict:
with zipfile.ZipFile(path) as archive:
_validate_archive(archive)
names = set(archive.namelist())
presentation_rels = _relationships(archive, "ppt/_rels/presentation.xml.rels")
presentation = _xml(archive, "ppt/presentation.xml")
theme_name = "ppt/theme/theme1.xml"
theme = _xml(archive, theme_name) if theme_name in names else None
colors = [] if theme is None else [{"name": item.tag.removeprefix(A), "value": next((child.get("val") for child in item), None)} for item in theme.findall(f".//{A}clrScheme/*")]
fonts = {} if theme is None else {key: node.get("typeface") for key, node in (("major_latin", theme.find(f".//{A}majorFont/{A}latin")), ("minor_latin", theme.find(f".//{A}minorFont/{A}latin"))) if node is not None}
slides = []
for index, item in enumerate(presentation.findall(f".//{P}sldId"), start=1):
rel = presentation_rels.get(item.get(f"{R}id", ""), {})
slide_name = rel.get("target", "")
if slide_name not in names:
slides.append({"index": index, "part": slide_name, "error": "missing slide part"})
continue
slide = _xml(archive, slide_name)
rels_name = f"{PurePosixPath(slide_name).parent}/_rels/{PurePosixPath(slide_name).name}.rels"
rels = _relationships(archive, rels_name)
text = "".join(node.text or "" for node in slide.findall(f".//{A}t"))
shape_counts = Counter(node.tag.removeprefix(P) for node in slide.findall(f".//{P}spTree/*"))
slides.append({"index": index, "part": slide_name, "slide_id": item.get("id"), "hidden": item.get("show") == "0", "text": text, "shape_counts": dict(shape_counts), "relationships": list(rels.values()), "has_transition": slide.find(f"{P}transition") is not None, "has_timing": slide.find(f"{P}timing") is not None})
return {"deck": path, "slide_count": len(slides), "theme": {"colors": colors, "fonts": fonts}, "slides": slides, "media": sorted(name for name in names if name.startswith("ppt/media/")), "notes_parts": sorted(name for name in names if name.startswith("ppt/notesSlides/notesSlide")), "comment_parts": sorted(name for name in names if "/comments" in name.lower())}
def main(argv: list[str] | None = None) -> None:
argv = sys.argv[1:] if argv is None else argv
if len(argv) != 1:
raise SystemExit("Usage: python inspect.py <deck.pptx>")
path = _workspace_path(argv[0])
if not path.is_file():
raise SystemExit(f"Input package does not exist: {path}")
_write_stdout(json.dumps(inspect(str(path)), ensure_ascii=False, indent=2) + "\n")
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
Requirements and compatibility
Works with: Claude Code, Claude apps, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Kiro, OpenCode, Goose, Amp, Roo Code, JetBrains Junie, Factory Droid, Devin (ex-Windsurf), Mistral Vibe, OpenHands, Letta
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Needs: Needs Python
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Attribution and licence
- Created by
- kimtth
- Publisher
- Seth Hobson (Community)
- Distributed by
- Seth Hobson
- Source
- wshobson/agents · plugins/pptx-deck-creation/skills/pptx-reference-deck-analysis · commit 4bde316
- Licence
- MIT License (redistribution allowed)
- LICENSE (added by AutoGineer from LICENSE)
- ATTRIBUTION.md (written by AutoGineer)
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