2Slides Agent Skills: The Complete Guide (2026)

2Slides Agent Skills give coding agents — OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, OpenClaw, Cursor — a production-grade slide engine behind a one-line install. The skill teaches your agent to call the 2Slides API: template-driven native PPTX (Fast PPT), image-designed slides up to 4K, reference-image style matching, and per-page voice narration, all on pay-as-you-go credits. This page is the hub for everything skills-related: what they are, how to install them, which pipeline fits which job, and how 2Slides compares to the rest of 2026's PPT-skill ecosystem.

Making slides with a coding agent went from a novelty to a real workflow in 2026 — community PPT skills now carry tens of thousands of GitHub stars, OpenAI ships an official Slides skill in Codex, and skill directories index the field. The rest of this guide assumes that world and shows you the shortest reliable path through it.

• Skill file: 2slides.com/skill.md
• GitHub: github.com/2slides/slides-generation-2slides-skills
• Skills page: 2slides.com/skills

What is a 2Slides Agent Skill?

An Agent Skill is a folder with a

file — instructions, scripts, and resources an agent loads when a task matches. The 2Slides skill teaches your agent how to produce decks through the 2Slides API instead of improvising PPTX code every session: it knows the endpoints, the theme search, the job polling, and the credit costs, so "turn README.md into a 10-page deck" becomes one request. Because rendering happens server-side against maintained templates, run #40 looks like run #1 — the property one-shot prompting can't offer.

Install in two minutes

1. Get an API key at 2slides.com/api — new accounts include 500 free credits (~50 Fast PPT pages).
2. Export the key and install the skill:

export SLIDES_2SLIDES_API_KEY="sk-..."
# Codex:
$skill-installer https://2slides.com/skill.md
# Claude Code / OpenClaw / Cursor: drop the skill folder into your skills directory,
# or clone github.com/2slides/slides-generation-2slides-skills

1. Ask for a deck: "Use the 2slides skill to generate a 10-page deck from README.md, minimal dark theme, English."

Prefer tool-calls over skills? The same service is exposed as an MCP server —

or hosted streamable HTTP — with per-agent setup guides for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, and any MCP client. When to pick which mechanism: Agent Skills vs MCP servers.

Four pipelines behind one skill

The practical guidance: Fast PPT when the deliverable must be edited in PowerPoint afterward; the image pipelines when visual impact matters more than editability; narration when the deck ships as a video. Developers integrating directly can skip the skill and hit the API — the endpoint-by-endpoint reference (with a Gamma comparison) is in Gamma Generate API vs 2Slides API.

Why skills beat one-shot prompting for decks

One-shot prompts like "make me a pitch deck" break in production for four repeatable reasons: output format isn't guaranteed (you get text, not a file), design drifts between runs, brand rules can't be enforced, and pipelines can't retry what they can't validate. Skills fix all four by making deck generation a pinned, testable workflow — the same way mature teams treat invoice or report generation. The agent does what models are best at (reasoning, structure, narrative) and delegates rendering to a system built for it.

The 2026 PPT-skills landscape — where 2Slides fits

The ecosystem now has three families, and honest guidance means knowing when each wins:

• Code-composed skills (Anthropic's pptx skill, OpenAI's Slides skill) write PptxGenJS locally — best for offline constraints and editing existing decks.
• Image-composed skills (codex-ppt-skill, banana-slides and the "Vibe PPT" wave) render each slide as AI art — the highest visual ceiling, at the cost of editability and consistency.
• Hosted skills (2Slides) delegate rendering to an API — template-locked consistency, multi-language output, narration and video, at the cost of requiring a network and credits.

The full eight-option comparison with a fit guide per family: The Best PPT Skills for Claude Code & Codex. Setup walkthroughs for all three paths inside Codex specifically: How to Make Slides with Codex Skills. And if your users live in ChatGPT rather than a coding agent, the first-party option is reviewed in ChatGPT's @Presentations skill.

Real-world workflows

• Recurring reports: cron or n8n triggers the agent weekly; the skill regenerates the deck from fresh data against the same theme — batch generation patterns.
• Per-client decks at scale: one brief template, N client variables, N branded PPTX files.
• Docs → slides: point the agent at a PDF, Notion page, or spreadsheet and let the skill handle the deck (file-to-slides guides).
• Narrated training videos: image pipeline + narration + PNG/WAV export, assembled into MP4 (narrated video guide).
• Multi-language rollouts: same content,
  responseLanguage
  per market, 19+ languages with native CJK/RTL handling.

FAQ

What agents support the 2Slides skill?

Any agent that reads

— OpenAI Codex (via ), Claude Code, OpenClaw, and Cursor are documented. Agents without skills support can use the MCP server instead; both surfaces share the same API and credits.

Do I need a subscription to use the skill?

No. The skill runs on API credits: 500 free on signup, then pay-as-you-go from $5 per 2,000 credits. There is no seat or subscription requirement in front of the API key.

How is this different from the official Codex Slides skill or Anthropic's pptx skill?

Those skills make your agent write presentation code locally — free and offline-capable, with output quality dependent on the code the model writes that session. The 2Slides skill delegates to hosted templates, trading network dependency for run-to-run consistency, multi-language output, and narration/video. Many teams use both: official skills for quick internal decks, hosted generation for anything that ships.

Can the skill edit an existing PowerPoint file?

No — it generates new decks. For XML-level editing of existing PPTX files, Anthropic's pptx skill is the strongest option in the ecosystem; see the eight-skill comparison.

Where do I report issues or contribute?

The skill is open source at github.com/2slides/slides-generation-2slides-skills — issues and PRs welcome.