Every AI slide tool hands you a deck you can't actually edit — open it in PowerPoint and every slide is a flat picture you can't touch. PPT Master (free, open-source, 32.9k+ stars, MIT) fixes that: it turns any PDF, Word doc, or webpage into a REAL, natively-editable PowerPoint — every shape, chart, and line of text is a live object — and it runs right inside Claude Code. This quick-start is the whole map: install it in ~30 seconds, the 3-step workflow, copy-paste prompt templates, which model to use, and a first-deck checklist.

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AI slide tools have a dirty secret: most of them give you something you can't edit. There are four kinds — template fill-in (every deck looks the same), image-based (each slide is one frozen picture), HTML tools like Gamma and Tome (gorgeous in a browser, but export to .pptx and the layout flattens), and native-editable. PPT Master (open source, MIT — github.com/hugohe3/ppt-master, 32,900+ stars) is the one that does the last one properly. As its author puts it: 'if a file can't be opened and edited in PowerPoint, it shouldn't be called a PPT.' The trick is clever: the AI designs each slide as an SVG, then a script translates that SVG into DrawingML — the native vector format PowerPoint already uses — so shapes, gradients and shadows map one-to-one. It's a dialect translation, not a format mismatch. The result is a deck where you click any 'designed' element and it's a real, movable, recolorable PowerPoint object. Using it is genuinely easy: drop a file in projects/, tell your agent in plain English ('Please create a PPT from projects/q3-report/report.pdf'), confirm a quick design spec, and your native .pptx lands in exports/. Install is one command (npx skills add hugohe3/ppt-master; only hard requirement is Python 3.10+) and it works inside Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code + Copilot, Codex, Windsurf, and more. This free quick-start is six pages: why native editability wins, the install commands, the 3-step workflow, six copy-paste prompt templates (create from a doc, from pasted text, use your own template, beautify, reformat to 9:16, and make the deck narrate itself), the feature cheat-sheet (real animations, template support, image generation, the self-narrating deck, 10+ canvas formats, 100% local), the model picks (Claude Opus + gpt-image-2 for best results, Gemini Flash for value — harness + model = agent), and a first-deck checklist. Honest caveats inside: it's a tool, not a wishing well — it needs setup, a 10-page deck takes 10–20 minutes, there's no real-time collaboration, and the final polish is yours (that's the point of a deck you can edit). Want zero-setup instant slides instead? The project itself says use Gamma or Canva. Stop generating slides you can't touch — start making decks you actually own.

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