The AI PPT Toolkit Is Splitting Into Three Very Different Worlds

Last week I wrote about how Codex is quietly killing PowerPoint. My take then was that PowerPoint itself won't disappear, but it's getting pushed further back in the workflow — closer to the final delivery step than the creation step. This week I went down a deeper rabbit hole, digging through GitHub and X to find the AI PPT skills people are actually talking about. I looked at the ones with the most stars and the loudest buzz. What I found surprised me: these tools aren't all trying to do the same thing anymore. They've split into three distinct camps.

Some insist on producing truly editable PowerPoint files. Others have decided the deck should just be a webpage. And a third group treats each slide as a complete, finished image — beautiful, but not something you can tweak later.

So the real question when you're choosing an AI PPT skill isn't which one has the most stars. It's this: after the AI is done, what exactly do you want to walk away with?

The three roads of AI PPT

Before I dive in, a quick note on the numbers. All the star counts I mention are from August 15, 2026. Anthropic and Baoyu's numbers come from their whole skill collections, not a single PPT skill, so treat those as popularity signals rather than rankings. Stars tell you how fast something is spreading, not necessarily how good it is. What really matters is whether the output fits your delivery scenario.

Road one: the PPT as a living document

If your deck needs to go to a boss, a client, or a colleague who'll keep editing it, editability has to come first. This camp looks the most traditional, but it's actually the hardest to pull off. Making a pretty full-page image is easy for an AI. Turning titles, body text, charts, shapes, and animations into objects that can still be edited in PowerPoint is a whole different level of difficulty.

Anthropic's official PPTX skill: boring in the best way

Anthropic's official skills repo has about 169k stars, but that's for the whole collection. Their PPTX skill doesn't show off any flashy finished decks. The README is all about creating, modifying, templates, speaker notes, overflow checks, and page-by-page checks. I actually find that reassuring. The official team cares less about wowing you with a demo image and more about whether the file opens, edits cleanly, and doesn't have text spilling off the slide. If you're thinking of AI-generated PPT as a long-term office capability, this skill is more like the foundation.

PPT Master: the most complete PowerPoint-focused route

PPT Master sits at around 46.8k stars, making it the most popular standalone PPT project in this group. It can start from documents, PDFs, web pages, or Markdown, and hand you back a genuinely editable PPTX. Shapes, connectors, charts, tables, master slides, animations, and speaker notes are all in scope. The data-journalism style example they show is information-dense, but what impresses me more is that after the charts are generated, you can still go into PowerPoint and adjust them. This is the route for formal presentations and commercial deliverables. The trade-off: heavier setup, model quality affects the output, and you'll still need a final human polish pass.

Huashu Design: pick the aesthetic direction first

Huashu Design, by 花叔, has around 23k stars. It feels like a design studio squeezed into an agent. For decks longer than five pages, it first creates a direction draft and two sample slides. Once the visual language is locked, it rolls out the rest. That extra step might seem like a detour, but it solves the classic AI design problem: when someone says "make it more premium," everyone pictures something different. Huashu starts with a webpage to nail the visuals, then tries to export an editable PPTX. It's great for projects where brand and design consistency matter. If you want a one-liner that spits out a finished deck, the back-and-forth will feel like a drag.

Baoyu Design: polish on the web, deliver in PowerPoint

Baoyu Design, the new one from 宝玉, has about 3.4k stars. PPT is just one part of its broader design capability. It generates and edits the deck in a web page, then exports two kinds of PPTX: one that keeps text, shapes, images, and animations editable, and one that renders each page as a single image to preserve the web look. I like having that choice. If you need to keep editing, pick the editable mode. If you want the visuals to stay identical, pick the image mode. The downside is that the whole process is heavier and demands more from your local environment.

Dashi PPT Skill: edit in the browser, then hand it over

Dashi PPT Skill, around 5.1k stars, takes a balanced path. It generates and edits in the browser, then can deliver HTML, PDF, or editable PPTX. Nothing too extreme here, and that's the appeal. The web page handles previewing and tweaking, while the PPTX drops into your existing office workflow. If you want AI design speed without abandoning traditional file delivery, this is a solid first stop.

Road two: the PPT as a webpage

The second camp isn't obsessed with PowerPoint files. They care more about how the deck looks when presented, whether animations are smooth, if it can go fullscreen, if it has speaker notes, and whether you can share a link and have people open it directly. In other words, they're building presentations — "PPT" is just what everyone calls it.

Frontend Slides: three previews to nail the look

Frontend Slides has about 27.5k stars, and the author's launch post pulled around 1.52 million views on X. The smartest thing it does is generate three visual previews before you commit. Most people can't articulate what style they want, but picking one out of three is easy. The result is an HTML presentation you can open and share directly, and it can also extract text, images, and notes from an existing PPTX to rebuild it. It's ideal for tech talks, public speaking, and online sharing. Just plan ahead if you need an editable PPTX later.

归藏 PPT Skill: a personality of its own

归藏 PPT Skill is at about 24k stars and is a standalone PPT project. It offers two visual systems: an editorial-magazine look for narrative and personal expression, and a Swiss International style for product, analysis, facts, and methodology. It goes beyond just making slides — it includes features like next-page preview, speaker notes, a timer, rehearsal mode, a laser pointer, and a highlighter. It treats "how do I actually present this" as part of the skill. It's stylish, but it has boundaries. Large data tables, traditional training decks, and heavy back-and-forth editing aren't its comfort zone.

HTML PPT Studio: a toolbox full of templates and animations

HTML PPT Studio, around 7.9k stars, doesn't push a single aesthetic. Instead, it packs dozens of themes, complete templates, single-page layouts, and animations, plus a speaker window, next-slide preview, script, and timer. If 归藏 is a designer with a distinct voice, HTML PPT Studio is a fully stocked toolbox. It's great for quickly building web-based decks that look rich and present well. Again, if you must hand over a PowerPoint file, you'll need to do an extra conversion step.

Open Slide: a deck as a long-term project

Open Slide, about 6.5k stars, bundles commenting, editing, speaker notes, a timer, and web publishing. It's built for collaboration between humans and agents over time. I see it as treating a deck like a web project that keeps evolving. You can comment, modify, keep versions, and publish updates, all within the project — no more emailing "final_v8.pptx" around. Right now the README focuses on HTML and PDF export; PowerPoint isn't a priority.

Road three: the PPT as a finished picture

The third camp is blunt: make each page look as good as possible. Text, illustration, layout, and texture all live in one complete image. Then those images get assembled into a PPTX or PDF. This route delivers the most visual impact and travels best on social media. The catch is that changing even one word might mean regenerating the entire page.

宝玉 Slide Deck: whole-page visuals first

宝玉's baoyu-skills collection has around 25k stars, and the Slide Deck skill is widely shared in Chinese-speaking circles. It analyzes the content and audience, decides on outline, page count, and style, then generates each page as a complete image before combining them into PPTX and PDF. Perfect for knowledge sharing, social media, and content where you want a unified visual feel. But if your boss likes to change three numbers five minutes before the meeting, this route will be painful.

Codex PPT Skill: let the image model own the visuals

Codex PPT Skill, about 4.9k stars, calls an image model to generate each page, then stitches them into a PPTX. The advantage is obvious: the model handles the picture, the text, and the style all at once, producing decks that traditional templates just can't match. The trade-off is equally clear: each slide is a single image, so editing individual elements is limited. It's good for concept decks, personal talks, and first-impression moments. For data-heavy reports that get revised often, be careful.

王虹 handwriting-style PPT: the style is the content

Last, I'll include my own project: the 王虹 handwriting-style PPT. It lives in the z-skills collection, which has only 323 stars — nothing compared to the big names. But this skill represents what I believe more and more: after AI generates the deck, personal style becomes increasingly valuable. I replicated 王虹's handwriting report because I loved that feeling of "the thinking process is still on the page." It doesn't stuff everything into neat cards. Instead, it uses handwriting, arrows, formulas, coordinate axes, and step-by-step animations to show how a problem gets worked through. It's not right for every presentation, but for tech, math, or complex ideas, the distinctiveness is huge.

More stars doesn't mean it's for you

After looking at all 12 projects, my conclusion is simple: don't look at the leaderboard first. Look at what you'll actually hand over.

• Boss reports, client deliverables, things that will get edited later: Anthropic PPTX, PPT Master, Dashi
• Brand launches, high design standards, still want to edit: Huashu Design, Baoyu Design
• Tech talks, public speaking, online sharing: Frontend Slides, 归藏, HTML PPT Studio, Open Slide
• Knowledge cards, social media, whole-page visual impact: 宝玉 Slide Deck, Codex PPT Skill
• Technical explanations, math, personal style: 王虹 handwriting-style PPT

If I'm making a formal deck for my boss, I'd go with PPT Master or Anthropic's official route, because the file will likely be edited again. If I'm presenting at a tech conference, I'd lean toward Frontend Slides or 归藏 — the live experience matters more than the file format. If I'm creating knowledge content for social media, 宝玉 Slide Deck or Codex PPT Skill would save me the most time. And if I want to explain a complex technical problem with the feel of a human thinking it through, I'd pick my own 王虹 handwriting style.

The old PPT wars are over

What struck me most is that there's no single answer anymore. The old battles were about templates, animations, and layout tools. These 12 skills are fighting over something else: who understands the audience better, who can turn source material into a narrative, who can turn that narrative into visuals, and who can stick with you until you're ready to stand on stage.

PowerPoint isn't going away. Neither are HTML, PDF, or full-page images. But the old way of opening an app, starting from a blank slide, and dragging text boxes around is fading fast. The entry point for making a PPT is becoming a sentence, an article, a report, or maybe a skill you wrote yourself.