Builds the deck from the content, in PowerPoint, Google Slides or Canva, and checks it before it is presented.
Built for: The person with a board meeting on Thursday, the numbers in a spreadsheet and the story still in their head.
The button opens the checkout, where the 3 servers and 5 skills are listed one by one. Every member is free, so the checkout lists them and asks for no card.
The reason to buy a stack rather than five listings: each line below needs more than one member connected at the same time.
Draft the storyline from your notes and numbers, then build it as a .pptx, a Google Slides deck or a Canva design.
Restyle an existing deck to one theme and fix the slides where text overflows its box.
Write speaker notes for each slide and export the deck to PDF for the pre-read.
Check the finished file for accessibility and structural problems before it goes out.
What each part contributes, and why it was picked over the obvious alternative. Prices and permissions are read from the listings, so nothing here can disagree with the catalogue.
Edits .pptx files directly — text, slides, order, hyperlinks and snapshots — with a render step to check the result.
Google Slides through gogcli: create from markdown or a template, add and replace slides, speaker notes, export.
Canva's own hosted server for creating, editing and exporting designs from your Canva account.
Anthropic's PowerPoint skill: build, read and edit decks and templates, notes and comments included.
Turns the numbers into a narrative — context, visual, conclusion — for an audience that has five minutes.
Applies a consistent theme — colours and fonts — across slides, or generates one to match a brand.
Checks an editable deck for geometry, accessibility and file integrity before it is sent.
The Slidev project's skill for developer talks in markdown with live code, when PowerPoint is the wrong tool.
Every member is free, so the monthly figure is $0 whatever you do with the stack: nothing here is billed by the call, and only adding a paid member could change it.
| Part | What you are paying for | Monthly, as quoted |
|---|---|---|
| KitchenSink4PPT | Free | — |
| Gogcli Slides | Free | — |
| Canva | Free | — |
| Skills | ||
| PPTX creation, editing, and analysis | Free · context cost only | — |
| Data Storytelling | Free · context cost only | — |
| Theme Factory | Free · context cost only | — |
| PPTX Quality Gates | Free · context cost only | — |
| Slidev - Presentation Slides for Developers | Free · context cost only | — |
| Everything above | $0 of servers plus $0 of skills, the same in a quiet month and a busy one | $0/mo |
Subscriptions at their monthly plan price; one-off licences spread over 12 months.
Install only these and the bill is nothing: 3 servers and 5 skills, and all 40 tools.
Nothing in this stack carries a call allowance, so nothing here can run out before the month does. The bill is decided when you install it, not when you use it.
The spend cap is one figure for the whole account, set in your dashboard and checked when an order is placed. On the call path what stops a retry loop is the plan's call allowance and its rate limit, and a refused call is never billed.
The steps below come before the install lines: what to decide and scope before connecting anything, in the order it matters. The lines themselves follow, part by part, for the client you pick.
npx mcprush@latest stack add slides-desk writes all 3 servers into Claude Code’s config in one go — or run the lines below one by one. The 5 skills are not included — add them with lines 04–08.
# 01 · KitchenSink4PPT
claude mcp add --scope user kitchensink4ppt-mcp '--' uvx kitchensink4ppt
# 02 · Gogcli Slides
claude mcp add --scope user gogcli-slides-mcp '--' npx -y gogcli-mcp-slides
# 03 · Canva
claude mcp add --scope user --transport http canva-canva-mcp https://mcp.canva.com/mcp
# 04 · PPTX creation, editing, and analysis
npx mcprush@latest skill add anthropics/pptx-creation-editing-and-analysis
# 05 · Data Storytelling
npx mcprush@latest skill add wshobson/data-storytelling
# 06 · Theme Factory
npx mcprush@latest skill add anthropics/theme-factory
# 07 · PPTX Quality Gates
npx mcprush@latest skill add wshobson/pptx-quality-gates
# 08 · Slidev - Presentation Slides for Developers
npx mcprush@latest skill add slidevjs/slidev-presentation-slides-for-developersnpx).uvx, docs.astral.sh/uv).Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser RemoteSigned once, or type npx.cmd instead of npx (codex.cmd, gemini.cmd, grok.cmd likewise). PowerShell 7 needs neither.Nothing is connected until you approve it in Claude Code. mcprush is not in the path and meters nothing here.
Installed together, these tool surfaces add up. It is the first thing a security reviewer asks for, so what has been counted — and what nobody has counted yet — is on the page rather than in a PDF.
| Member | Tool surface | Write tools |
|---|---|---|
| Gogcli Slides | imported | 21 |
| Canva | not imported | not recorded |
| KitchenSink4PPT | not imported | not recorded |
A stack's blast radius is the union of its members, not the worst of them. That union cannot be taken here, because 2 members of 3 have no imported tool surface — so the figure a review asks for is missing rather than low, and a member marked not imported is one nobody has counted rather than one that cannot write.
A stack is a default, not a verdict. These are the substitutions the maintainer would make, and what each one costs or saves.
The maintainer lists no alternatives for this stack.
Written by the maintainer, kept on the page rather than in a support thread.
It does not present. It builds and checks the deck; the rehearsal is yours.
Canva and Google Slides work in your accounts under your sign-in; brand kits and templates are whatever those accounts hold.
Charts are built from the numbers you give it. It does not fetch data from your systems on its own.
A stack has an owner: whoever keeps it re-checks the combination when a member changes, and the members themselves are published by the people named on each row.
Tools to inspect code changes, run checks and prepare a pull request review.
Tools to investigate a bug report and work toward a reproducible test case.
Tools to investigate alerts, check recent changes and follow the runbook.