Internal Session

Stop Making
PowerPoints

How AI turns a rough outline into a beautiful, interactive HTML deck — no slide software required.

Frontend Slides — Overview
What It Is
02 / 08

It's not a PowerPoint. It's a website.

Frontend Slides is a Claude Code skill that turns your outline into a self-contained HTML deck — with all the interactivity a normal slide format can't touch.

01

Click to enlarge

Any image or video expands in place — no separate viewer needed.

02

Rich embeds

Images, video, and even live links drop straight into a slide.

03

Live navigation

Hover the nav dots to preview the title of every page before you jump.

04

Small delights

A laser-pointer cursor and click-to-reveal content — details PowerPoint can't do.

How It Works
03 / 08

Five steps from idea to deck

You bring the content. The agent handles design, layout, and self-correction.

1

Install the skill

Send the agent the GitHub link once. Done.

2

Describe your content

Paste a full outline, rough notes, or just a topic.

3

Answer 4 questions

Purpose, length, content, density — locks in context up front.

4

Pick a cover design

Choose from 3 generated title-slide previews.

5

Full deck generated

The agent screenshots each slide and self-corrects mistakes.

Onboarding
04 / 08

Context up front, or you get slop

Four questions, asked before a single slide is built — because the model needs enough context or it defaults to generic output.

Question Options Why it matters
Purpose Pitch / Teaching / Conference talk / Internal Sets the tone and level of formality before any design choice is made.
Length Short / Medium / Long Determines pacing and how much ground each slide needs to cover.
Content Ready / Rough notes / Topic only Tells the agent whether to transcribe, structure, or draft from scratch.
Density Speaker-led / Reading-first Locks in slide count, type scale, and how much text lives on each slide.
Editing & Iterating
05 / 08

Feedback without touching code

Once you've got a draft, refining it is just conversation — or a direct annotation on the slide itself.

01

Screenshot + describe

Show the agent a slide and describe the change in plain language.

02

Annotate directly

In the Claude or Codex desktop app, mark up the slide itself with targeted comments.

03

Insert media by file path

Drop files in a folder and send the exact path — sending the image alone won't work. On Mac: Finder → View → Show Path Bar, then right-click "Copy as Pathname."

Sharing
06 / 08

Present it, or ship it as a real URL

The deck is a single HTML file that holds up on any device — and it doesn't have to stay local.

Local

Open in any browser

No install, no viewer app. Format holds up on laptops, tablets, and phones as-is.

Live

Deploy with Vercel (or Netlify)

Free account, connect once, ship a live link in minutes — the cleaner option when the audience shouldn't have to open a random file.

Just tell the agent: "deploy this deck with Vercel (or Netlify)." That's the whole instruction.

Lessons From Building It
07 / 08

Three things this skill taught its builder

22,000+ GitHub stars later, here's what stood out.

01

Skills replace apps

No new interface to learn — the capability comes to you, inside the tool you already use.

02

Skills personalize software

The agent is the middle layer — a user just asks it to change a default, no feature request needed.

03

HTML is the model's native output

Markdown is friendly to the model on input; HTML is friendly to everyone on output.

The Bigger Idea

You don't start with a skill.
You end with one.

Build the workflow first — tweak it round after round until it hits your standard — and only then freeze it into something an agent can run for anyone.

So here's the question worth sitting with: why does your next presentation have to be a PowerPoint?