Frontend Slides

A coding-agent skill for creating stunning HTML presentations — from scratch or by converting PowerPoint files. It is packaged as a Claude Code plugin, and the core SKILL.md can also be read by other coding agents with filesystem and shell access.

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What This Does

Frontend Slides helps non-designers create beautiful web presentations without knowing CSS or JavaScript. It uses a "show, don't tell" approach: instead of asking you to describe your aesthetic preferences in words, it generates visual previews and lets you pick what you like.

Here is a deck about the skill, made through the skill:

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ef57333e-f879-432a-afb9-180388982478

Key Features

• Zero Dependencies — Single HTML files with inline CSS/JS. No npm, no build tools, no frameworks.
• Visual Style Discovery — Can't articulate design preferences? No problem. Pick from generated visual previews.
• PPT Conversion — Convert existing PowerPoint files to web, preserving all images and content.
• Anti-AI-Slop — Curated distinctive styles that avoid generic AI aesthetics (bye-bye, purple gradients on white).
• Bold Template Pack — Optional design-forward templates from beautiful-html-templates, loaded progressively so safe presets still work as the default fallback.
• Production Quality — Accessible, fixed 16:9, well-commented code you can customize.

Installation

Via Claude Code Custom Marketplace Source

Install directly from this public GitHub repo. Run these as two separate Claude Code messages; do not paste both lines into the prompt at once.

/plugin marketplace add https://github.com/zarazhangrui/frontend-slides

After that finishes, run:

/plugin install frontend-slides@frontend-slides

Use the HTTPS URL. The shorter zarazhangrui/frontend-slides form may make Claude Code try SSH, which can fail if GitHub is not already in your known_hosts file.

Then use it by typing /frontend-slides:frontend-slides in Claude Code. Claude Code namespaces plugin-installed skills as /plugin-name:skill-name.

Claude Code Manual Installation

Copy the skill files to your Claude Code skills directory:

# Create the skill directory
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/frontend-slides/scripts

# Copy the user-facing skill files
cp SKILL.md STYLE_PRESETS.md viewport-base.css html-template.md animation-patterns.md ~/.claude/skills/frontend-slides/
cp -R bold-template-pack ~/.claude/skills/frontend-slides/
cp scripts/extract-pptx.py scripts/deploy.sh scripts/export-pdf.sh ~/.claude/skills/frontend-slides/scripts/

Or clone directly:

git clone https://github.com/zarazhangrui/frontend-slides.git ~/.claude/skills/frontend-slides

Then use it by typing /frontend-slides in Claude Code. Standalone skills are not namespaced.

Other Coding Agents

Agents such as Codex, Kimi Code, OpenCode, Gemini CLI, or other local coding assistants can use the same core skill. The simplest path is to send the agent this GitHub repo link and ask it to use the Frontend Slides skill:

https://github.com/zarazhangrui/frontend-slides