swapping-pptx-templates SKILL.md skillA
swapping-pptx-templates from augchan42/inkstone is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add augchan42/inkstone/swapping-pptx-templates@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- augchan42/inkstone
- Path
skills/swapping-pptx-templates/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Aug 8, 2026
- Size
- 4,665 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5
- License
- MIT
Use when re-rendering an existing .pptx deck's content into a different template/theme (PowerPoint, slides, brand swap, "use the template from X but content from Y"), especially with bilingual/CJK text or a template whose background is a baked-in image. For the underlying unpack/edit/pack mechanics, see the official pptx skill.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Swapping PPTX Templates ## Overview Moving a deck's *content* into a different template's *look*. PowerPoint has no "reflow into another template" operation, so this is a slide-by-slide rebuild in raw OOXML. This skill is the judgment layer on top of the mechanical workflow. **REQUIRED BACKGROUND:** Use the official `pptx` skill (Anthropic document-skills plugin) for the unpack → add_slide → edit → clean → pack mechanics and its scripts. This skill covers the four things that skill does NOT warn about, each of which caused a real defect. ## The four non-obvious rules ### 1. Redesign, don't relocate A "template" usually ships 3-5 generic layouts (title / banded-header / framed-card / blank), not equivalents of the source's custom diagrams. Copy-pasting shapes drags the *source's* colors and geometry into the new deck. Instead: extract each slide's content (text, data, image refs) and rebuild the visual from scratch in the template's palette, using its layouts only as background/chrome. Match content type to the closest layout; layer plain text boxes + shapes on top for anything beyond title+body. ### 2. Never hand-type CJK (or any non-ASCII) as numeric XML entities …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add augchan42/inkstone/swapping-pptx-templates@sha256:4eb94d948a11bdc0The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Aug 8, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
augchan42/inkstone · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ujtspotektbinfx6 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=augchan42/inkstone/swapping-pptx-templates GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4eb94d948a11bdc07a961cc65912d5923bc78b5660cca07101acba59a7c262ee
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