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op7418/guizang-ppt-skill generates HTML decks in editorial-magazine and Swiss layouts with a WebGL presentation runtime, and its August 6–7 commits added speaker notes, timer controls, an overview layout, and presenter-view preview. The direction of travel is the signal: agent skills that produce artifacts are growing their own runtimes rather than handing off to PowerPoint.
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hugohe3/ppt-master (~40.7K stars, Python) produces genuinely native PowerPoint files with real shapes, transitions, data-backed charts, and audio narration generated from speaker notes (GitHub). op7418/guizang-ppt-skill (~22.2K stars, HTML) is an agent skill emitting editorial...
heygen-com/hyperframes (40,341 stars, "Write HTML. Render video. Built for agents") shipped v0.7.103 on August 9 removing a gate added in 0.7.101 that had switched the faster parallel capture path off for most installs, making long renders slower with no error surfacing. That'...
255 stars in the two days after its August 22 creation, AGPL-3.0, positioned against Paper.design. Designs live on a shareable canvas of frames rendering real HTML in sandboxed iframes; people edit in the browser and agents edit through the built-in MCP server, with live curso...
HumanLayer published the skill on August 12 with the framing that "agents got more intelligent on paper, but the experience of using them got noticeably worse." Invoking it directs replies into component trees, call stacks, diagrams, file layouts, pseudocode, type signatures,...
v1.18.0-pre, published August 26, adds a reload path from the Agent Panel (GitHub). The same preview adds GPT-5.6's 1M-token context on Amazon Bedrock, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, Grok 4.5 and 4.6, a configurable edit_predictions.<provider>.prediction_debounce setting, and language...
Financial services went to preview August 25 with CME Group and Deutsche Bank as design partners, built around a managed Financial Research agent with 50+ reusable skills and 13 connectors into market data, news feeds, regulatory filings and internal databases, exposed over A2...
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