Deck From Template PPTX

Builds a deck from an outline inside your company template, using its own layouts.

2 uses this weeksource Percernolicence MIT

Tested 2026-10-24: delivered the file in 2 of 2 requests through a real assistant · security scan clean.

Try asking

Say it in your own words; the assistant finds this recipe by itself. Examples:

“Make the Q3 board deck in our template deck-template.pptx: title, results (revenue 48.2 MDKK +12 %, EBITDA 6.1), customers (312, churn 4.1 %), two risks, three decisions, thank-you slide. Add speaker notes and show me the first slides.”

“I uploaded deck-outline.md and deck-template.pptx. Build the deck from the outline inside the template, with slide numbers.”

“Lav en præsentation på 6 slides i vores skabelon deck-template.pptx om fordelene ved on-premise AI, med sidefoden 'Percerno · 2026'.”

“Turn these bullet points into a presentation that looks like our other decks (template attached): agenda, three findings, next steps.”

Without Percerno: On a managed Windows laptop you open the template in PowerPoint, add slides one by one, pick the right layout each time and type everything in; without PowerPoint, or with a template you are not allowed to install, you cannot.

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When it is the right choice

Build a NEW PowerPoint from a short outline INSIDE the company's own template in ONE command, with the DeckCraft engine: the template's layouts (title, section, bullets, two columns, comparison), colours, fonts, footer and slide numbers are used, so the deck looks like the company's other decks from the first slide; speaker notes included; the first slides rendered to PNG. Use for: a deck in our template from these points, board deck on our slides, turn this outline into a presentation that matches our brand, lav en præsentation i vores skabelon. For a deck without a template use deck-builder; to restyle an existing deck use deck-restyle. Triggers: in our template, on our slides, our brand, company deck, skabelon, from outline, from these bullet points.

The full recipe the assistant reads

Deck from template (one command)

Write the outline, run one script, hand back the file. python3 /skills/deck-from-template/scripts/from_template.py OUTLINE TEMPLATE.pptx OUT.pptx [options] wraps deckcraft-cli, a native engine that writes real .pptx without PowerPoint. It prints one OK … line or one ERROR … line. The template the person uploaded is in /work/in; write the outline to /work/outline.json (or .md) and results to /work/out.

Need	Command
Deck from a JSON outline in the template, with previews	`from_template.py /work/outline.json /work/in/template.pptx /work/out/deck.pptx --preview /work/out/preview`
From a Markdown outline	`from_template.py /work/outline.md /work/in/template.pptx /work/out/deck.pptx`
Footer and slide numbers	add `--footer "Nordisk Widgets · Q3 2026" --numbers`
Keep the template's own sample slides in front	add `--keep-template-slides`

The outline

JSON (/work/outline.json):

{
  "title": "Q3 2026 board meeting", "subtitle": "Nordisk Widgets ApS", "notes": "Welcome.",
  "slides": [
    {"type": "section", "title": "Results"},
    {"type": "bullets", "title": "Revenue up 12 %", "bullets": ["48.2 MDKK", "EBITDA 6.1 MDKK"], "notes": "Excludes the one-off credit."},
    {"type": "two-column", "title": "Customers", "left": ["312 customers", "+24 net new"], "right": ["Churn 4.1 %", "NPS 47"]},
    {"type": "comparison", "title": "Two risks", "left_title": "Lead times", "left": ["26 weeks"], "right_title": "Price pressure", "right": ["-8 % list"]},
    {"type": "title-only", "title": "Questions?"},
    {"type": "closing", "title": "Thank you", "body": "board@nordiskwidgets.dk"}
  ]
}

Slide types: section, bullets (3–6 bullets, each under 14 words), two-column, comparison, title-only, blank, closing. Every slide may carry "notes". The first slide is made from title/subtitle. Markdown works too: the first # Heading is the title slide (next plain line the subtitle), ## Heading a section, every later # Heading a bullet slide with its - items, Notes: … the speaker notes.

Afterwards look at the previews (read the PNGs) and give the person the links to the deck and the previews.

Files in this skill (4)

SKILL.md
gate.json
scripts/__pycache__/from_template.cpython-313.pyc
scripts/from_template.py

Where it comes from

Written by Percerno, MIT licence.