slideshow skill

Builds a navigable HyperFrames slide deck with fragment reveals, branching hotspots and presenter notes, served live rather than rendered to MP4.

Our verdict Recommended with caveats

A neat idea for live HTML decks, but it is short, tied to the HyperFrames stack and the text-to-speech fields are not wired yet.

What the slideshow skill does

The slideshow skill turns a HyperFrames composition into a presentation instead of a video. Each slide is a top-level scene in the composition file with the usual start, duration and size attributes, and a single JSON island near the top of the body describes the deck: which scenes are slides, presenter-only notes, fragment times for step-by-step reveals, hotspots that jump to branch sequences, and named slide sequences. The deck is served by npx hyperframes present, and navigation seeks the timeline instead of playing it, so every held state has to look right when the timeline is jumped to that time.

The skill lists what changes from a video project: no master root composition, fragment times are absolute timeline times, branch slides appear only in slideSequences, and text-to-speech fields in the schema are reserved but not wired yet. It warns never to render a deck to MP4, because render keeps only the first scene and truncates silently; stills come from snapshot --at. Handoff means running check --json until clean and verifying that every sceneId in the island exists. The folder is small: one 5 KB SKILL.md and one reference on a standalone harness, with no scripts.

Good for

  • Pitch decks and interactive presentations built from HTML and GSAP
  • Decks with branching Q&A paths or hotspot navigation
  • Teams already building video in HyperFrames who want a live deck from the same stack

Not for

  • Anyone who needs a PowerPoint or Google Slides file
  • Rendered video output (it explicitly says not to render decks to MP4)

Depth 2/5

A single 5 KB SKILL.md and one reference file, with no scripts or tests.

Dependencies and costs

  • HyperFrames CLI (Node.js 22+) and the core hyperframes skill
  • Telemetry: The skill sends nothing itself; the HyperFrames CLI it drives has default-on usage counters that can be disabled with npx hyperframes telemetry disable.

Security review

Review before installing

Markdown-only skill for building a slideshow as a HyperFrames composition and presenting it with the HyperFrames CLI. It has no scripts, fetches nothing itself and asks for no credentials. It depends on the HyperFrames CLI run through npx, which was not reviewed.

Worth knowing

  • Relies on a CLI or package we could not reviewSlides are served with hyperframes present, a command of the HyperFrames npm CLI whose code is not in the skill folder.skills/slideshow/SKILL.md:3
  • Runs remote code at an unpinned versionStandalone installs run the CLI as npx hyperframes without a version (plugin installs use a launcher pinned to the plugin release).skills/slideshow/SKILL.md:3

What we checked

The skill folder (2 files) on Oct 29, 2026. Not a full review: it relies on code outside the repository: npm package hyperframes (HyperFrames CLI, run through npx).

NVIDIA SkillSpector static scan: 6 pattern hits (MCP Rug Pull 4, System Prompt Leakage 1, analysis-evasion 1). The scanner had no hits for this skill. It is two Markdown files describing a slideshow HTML format.

A review, not a certification. Skills change after we check them — read the files before installing.

License

Apache-2.0 — commercial use allowed.

Can it run unattended?

Not really. It produces an interactive deck for live presenting; there is no unattended loop.

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FAQ

What is the HyperFrames slideshow skill?

It is a skill for building a presentation as a HyperFrames composition: slides, fragment reveals, branching hotspots and presenter notes, served live with npx hyperframes present. The output is a running deck, not a video.

How do I install the slideshow skill?

It installs on demand: run npx hyperframes skills update slideshow, or npx skills add heygen-com/hyperframes and select it. It depends on the core hyperframes skill for the composition rules.

Can I export the deck to MP4 or PowerPoint?

Not as an MP4: the skill warns that render keeps only the first scene and truncates silently. It does not produce PowerPoint files either; for stills you can use snapshot at each slide.

slideshow vs a PowerPoint skill: which should I use?

Use a PowerPoint or Google Slides skill when you need an editable office file that others will open. Use this one for animated, GSAP-driven decks presented live from a browser.

Sources: GitHub repository; install counts from skills.sh via Best Skills (CC BY 4.0). Review based on the published SKILL.md.