How to Install and Use Ai Ppt Generator in OpenClaw

Open your terminal and run the clawhub install command to add the ai-ppt-generator skill to your OpenClaw instance. ClawHub downloads the skill package from the registry, validates its integrity, and registers it with your local OpenClaw configuration. Installation takes under a minute on a standard internet connection. Unlike many other ClawHub skills, the AI PPT Generator skill does not require a third-party API key for basic functionality — the presentation generation logic runs locally using your OpenClaw instance's built-in language model. Some advanced features (like AI-generated slide visuals or theme matching) may require additional configuration, but a fully functional text-based presentation generator works immediately after installation. After installation completes, you will see a confirmation message with the skill version and any optional configuration settings. Run `clawhub info ai-ppt-generator` to review all available options before your first use.

1clawhub install ai-ppt-generator

Open OpenClaw chat and type a natural language description of the presentation you want. The skill responds to prompts that describe the topic, intended audience, number of slides, and any structural requirements. You do not need to format your prompt in a special way — describe it as you would to a human assistant. The skill generates the presentation in stages: first creating an outline, then expanding each slide with content, then generating speaker notes if requested, and finally exporting the .pptx file. For a 10-slide deck, this typically takes 30-60 seconds. You will see progress updates in OpenClaw chat as each stage completes. The generated .pptx file is saved to your configured OpenClaw output directory (default: `~/openclaw-output/presentations/`). OpenClaw reports the exact file path when generation is complete so you can navigate to it immediately. For best results, be specific about audience and purpose. 'Create a sales presentation' produces generic output. 'Create a 10-slide sales presentation for enterprise IT managers explaining how our API monitoring tool reduces incident response time by 40%' produces targeted, audience-appropriate content.

The ai-ppt-generator skill supports configuration options that set defaults for all future presentations. The most useful settings are default slide count, output format, content density (words per slide), and whether to include speaker notes by default. Content density controls how much text appears on each slide. The `minimal` setting produces clean slides with just a heading and 3 bullet points — good for visually-focused presentations. The `standard` setting balances text and whitespace. The `detailed` setting produces slides with more complete explanations — better for self-paced reading or leave-behind documents. The skill can also output presentations in formats other than .pptx — including markdown (for a plain-text outline), JSON (for programmatic processing), and HTML slide show format. Set your preferred output format as the default if you consistently use one format. RapidDev can assist with configuring the AI PPT Generator as part of a larger OpenClaw content automation pipeline — for example, automatically generating weekly status presentations from Google Sheets data combined with the google-sheets skill.

1# Configure skill defaults in ~/.openclaw/skills/ai-ppt-generator.yaml
2ai-ppt-generator:
3  default_slide_count: 10       # default number of slides if not specified in prompt
4  content_density: standard     # minimal | standard | detailed
5  include_speaker_notes: true   # include speaker notes by default
6  output_format: pptx           # pptx | markdown | json | html
7  include_title_slide: true     # always include a title slide
8  include_agenda_slide: true    # include an agenda/contents slide
9  include_summary_slide: true   # include a closing summary slide

After reviewing the initial generated presentation, you can ask OpenClaw to make targeted edits through follow-up chat messages. The skill supports requests like 'make slide 5 more concise', 'add a slide about competitive advantages after slide 4', 'rewrite the speaker notes for slide 8 to be more conversational', or 'change the tone of the entire presentation to be more casual'. For structural changes — like reordering major sections or changing the narrative arc — it is often faster to ask for a full regeneration with an updated prompt rather than requesting multiple small edits. But for content-level refinements on specific slides, targeted edit requests work well and preserve the rest of the deck. You can also ask the skill to export just the slide outline as markdown text, which you can then edit in any text editor and re-import for a full regeneration with your manual edits applied. This workflow is useful for presentations where you need precise control over the exact wording on each slide.