PowerPoint and Excel creation using Claude Skills

Overview

Want to generate PowerPoint presentations or Excel spreadsheets using AI? This repository demonstrates how to use Claude Skills API to create professional documents programmatically using PowerShell and Bash scripts. Claude Skills are pre-built capabilities that allow Claude to perform specific tasks like creating PPTX files or XLSX spreadsheets.

Features

• 🎯 PowerPoint Generation: Create PPTX presentations using the pptx skill
• 📊 Excel Generation: Create XLSX spreadsheets using the xlsx skill
• 🐍 Python SDK: Easy-to-use Python examples with the Anthropic SDK
• 💻 Terminal Scripts: PowerShell and Bash scripts for command-line usage
• 📥 File Download: Automatically download generated files using the Files API

Prerequisites

• PowerShell 5.1+ or PowerShell 7+ (for .ps1 scripts)
• Bash (for .sh scripts)
• Anthropic API Key (Get one here)
• jq (for Bash scripts - optional, for JSON parsing)

Usage

1. Clone the repository

git clone repository link
cd Claude-Excel-PPT-Skills

2. Set up environment variables

Or set it in your terminal:

PowerShell:
$env:ANTHROPIC_API_KEY = "your-api-key-here"

In powershell type -
.\create_pptx.ps1