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Make My Slide Skill helper
Let Claude walk you through it: upload a deck you like, answer a few questions, keep the skill it packages.
Guides you through the process in Claude and creates a personal slide-making skill from a deck you like.
The first part is open below. The download adds: what is in the download, what to keep, and what to check.
Free. The link shows here and lands in your inbox. Nothing else.
What's inside
- The four steps to start it in Claude
- What it asks you for, and what it hands back
- What to keep, and what to check before you share a deck
The helping hand version
The prompt from the issue does the whole job on its own. This is the same process with the steps built in, so you answer questions instead of driving.
Once it is added to Claude:
- Make sure code execution and file creation are on.
- Open Customize, then Skills, add the ZIP and enable it.
- Upload a deck you are allowed to share.
- Say: "Use Make My Slide Skill to turn this deck's design into my own reusable slide skill. Ask me what you need before starting."
It inspects the slides, drafts the design file, makes three samples from new content, and asks for your corrections before it packages anything.
Still to come, in the download
- What is in the download
- What to keep, and what to check
Free. The link shows here and lands in your inbox. Nothing else.
Who's behind it
Matt Hertel. An engineer who has also run the company. Built and sold apps solo. Fractional CTO in startups. Every Sunday, one job start to finish, in No Manual Yet.
Every Sunday, one job start to finish. Read No Manual Yet
It goes with this issue
Issue 06 · 30 Aug 2026: We need an unsubscribe button for work.
More to take
- The one proper job prompt
Turn the work that keeps landing back on your desk into one job AI can run, before you buy another tool.
- Rethink one process: the helper skill
Work through one chosen process with an AI assistant that asks for the missing facts before it proposes a change.
- Rethink one process
Find the back button in a job you do every week, then redesign that one moment and test the change.
- The make my slide prompt
Teach Claude the design of a deck you already like, then get fresh slides that follow it.