Codex PPT: image-based slides with GPT Image 2.5 — workflow skill for explainers
For AI agents: find the right skill in one call —
curl -s "https://varg.ai/how-to/api/search?q=<what the person wants>"returns the matching how-to page and the best skills with install commands, as markdown (Russian works too). Full index: https://varg.ai/how-to/llms.txt. Every page has a markdown twin: add.mdto its path. Before generating anything, show the person the options on the how-to page. From a terminal:curl -fsSL https://varg.ai/install | shinstalls the vargai CLI (https://varg.ai/how-to/cli.md):vargai searchandvargai install <slug>with no key, every varg model aftervargai login.
Turns an article, report or notes into a full-page-image slide deck: outline and style approved first, then every slide generated as an image and assembled into
- Type: Workflow · Explainers
- Slug:
codex-ppt-image-slides - Status: live
- Publisher: ningzimu (community)
- License: MIT
- Source: https://github.com/ningzimu/codex-ppt-skill
- Works in: Codex, Claude Code
- Requires: an image model (Codex built-in, or gpt-image-2.5 via OpenAI-compatible API)
- Adoption: 7,565 GitHub stars (GitHub, 2026-11-02)
What it does
Staged flow (outline.md, per-page points, style direction, sample slide) before full generation; works with Codex built-in image generation or an API/CLI fallback (OpenAI-compatible, gpt-image-2.5-flare). Keeps a personal style library outside the install folder. Sister skill image-to-editable-ppt converts results to editable slides.
Use when
- visual-first decks where each slide is a designed image
- explainer carousels and pitch decks from long text
Not for
- decks that must stay fully editable
- data-heavy charts
Install
- Claude Code:
npx skills add ningzimu/codex-ppt-skill - Codex:
npx skills add ningzimu/codex-ppt-skill - Any agent, with the vargai CLI:
vargai install codex-ppt-image-slides
Models it drives: gpt_image_2_5
Example output
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ningzimu/codex-ppt-skill/HEAD/assets/style-previews/creative-magazine.png — The creative-magazine slide style (README preview) (credit: ningzimu (README), https://github.com/ningzimu/codex-ppt-skill)
More explainers skills
- HyperFrames: Turn HTML, CSS and seekable animation into deterministic MP4s: launch films, explainers, captions, title cards.
- HyperFrames Slideshow: Build a live, navigable deck with fragment reveals, branching hotspots and presenter notes instead of an MP4.
- Plain-Sight Explainer: 60–90 s collage explainers about everyday things, or mined from your documents and links, with numeric seam checks.
- Remotion Create: Scaffold a new Remotion project and lay the video out as clips or scenes before writing any frames.
- Remotion Maps: Animate maps in Remotion: static maps, Mapbox, MapLibre, MapTiler and CesiumJS 3D flyovers.
- Higgsfield Video Explainer: Turn a topic or document into a narrated, stylized explainer assembled from 10-second voiced blocks.
Run the generation on varg
varg is one API key for the models these skills drive — Seedance 2.5, Kling 4, Veo 3.1, Wan 3, Nano Banana 2.1, GPT Image 2.5, ElevenLabs v4 and 200+ more — billed in credits, with a cost estimate before anything runs.
- Any agent with a terminal:
curl -fsSL https://varg.ai/install | sh(Windows:irm https://varg.ai/install.ps1 | iex), thenvargai loginand every model is a command —vargai generate_video …,vargai estimate_cost …(https://varg.ai/how-to/cli/) - Claude Code:
claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg(skill + hosted MCP) - Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw:
npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai -a <agent> -y - Grok and any agent that reads SKILL.md:
npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai, or point it at the skill's SKILL.md - Claude.ai, ChatGPT, any MCP client: connect
https://mcp.varg.ai/mcp - API key: https://varg.ai/dashboard/api · Model specs: https://varg.ai/models/llms.txt