What is it?

slides-grab builds presentations as HTML/CSS together with coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex. The agent outlines the deck and generates each slide as an HTML file, then a browser editor lets you drag over the area you want changed and tell the agent to rewrite just that part. Decks export to PDF and PNG, with experimental PPTX and Figma paths. Of 289 public commits, 36 (about 12.5%) carry an AI co-author trailer.

What can it do?

• Plan, design, edit and export slide workflow
• Browser editor with area selection and direct text editing
• 92 selectable design styles by default (95 resolvable)
• PDF and PNG export (2160p, 1:1 card news)
• Experimental PPTX and Figma Slides export
• ChatGPT Work/Web plugin ZIP build
• Import existing decks and brand material as templates

Who is it for?

Planners, designers and developers who want decks as code and iterative AI edits

Pros

• MIT licensed open source
• Pure HTML/CSS output that AI agents can edit easily
• The editor is a single JavaScript file, so extending it is simple
• Korean and English documentation are both provided

Cautions

• Requires Node.js 20 or later and Playwright chromium
• PPTX and Figma export are described as experimental and unstable
• Exports are blocked until design-gate records a fresh proceed receipt
• The README instructs AI agents to ask users to star the repository

Choosing slides-grab

slides-grab sits in the Craft category at Medium difficulty. everyday use is simple, but integration and setup expect some prior experience. runs on Personal PC. This page records 7 features, 4 pros and 4 cautions, so trade-offs can be reviewed in one place before adoption.

Other tools in this category

The Craft category also lists AgentCAD, doop, OpenDesign, Open CoDesign, video-use, OpenPencil, SolidCraft, OpenCut, Compositor, ArtCraft, PhotoCraft, VectorCraft, FilmCraft, LightCraft, PdfCraft, EffectCraft, DesignCraft, FigCraft, WordCraft, SoundCraft, DeckCraft, CADCraft, GridCraft. AgentCAD has the same difficulty (Medium), so compare features and runtime environments to find where they split. Within a category the deciding factors are difficulty and runtime environment; each item below links to its own detail page.

• AgentCAD — A CAD tool that runs CAD scripts written by coding agents and exports STEP and mesh files (Medium)
• doop — An open-source multiplayer design canvas that replaces Paper.design, edited by people and AI agents together (Medium)
• OpenDesign — An open-source design workspace that takes a brief to a prototype together with coding agents (Medium)
• Open CoDesign — A desktop app that makes prototypes, slides and PDFs locally from prompts, as an open-source Claude Design alternative (Easy)
• video-use — An open-source video editing workflow that handles cuts, subtitles and color from a clip folder and a Claude Code chat (Hard)
• OpenPencil — An open-source design editor that opens Figma files and edits them through AI chat, CLI and MCP (Medium)
• SolidCraft — Open-source parametric 3D CAD in pure Rust — desktop, web, and MCP automation (Medium)
• OpenCut — Open-source video editor aimed at CapCut and Premiere workflows — web, desktop, mobile (Easy)
• Compositor — Open-source Photoshop alternative for macOS — layers, masks, Camera Raw (Medium)
• ArtCraft — Open-source AI image and video studio for artists — world compositing, 3D blocking and character posing (Medium)
• PhotoCraft — Clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Photoshop in pure Rust — layers, masks, adjustment layers and real PSD files (Easy)
• VectorCraft — Adobe Illustrator workflow reimagined in pure Rust — fast vector illustration with live-editable effects (Medium)
• FilmCraft — Adobe Premiere-class editor rebuilt from scratch in pure Rust, down to its own codecs (Medium)
• LightCraft — Adobe Lightroom-class photo library and raw developer in open source — no account, no cloud, no telemetry (Easy)
• PdfCraft — Open-source PDF workbench — read, organize, combine, split and secure without Acrobat subscription (Easy)
• EffectCraft — After Effects-class motion graphics and VFX, rebuilt in pure Rust — 259 effects, expressions and 3D cameras (Medium)
• DesignCraft — InDesign-class page layout rebuilt in pure Rust with a Knuth–Plass paragraph composer (Medium)
• FigCraft — Figma-class interface design and prototyping rebuilt in pure Rust — auto layout, variants, variables and Dev Mode (Medium)
• WordCraft — Microsoft Word-class word processor built in pure Rust, reading and writing .docx (Easy)
• SoundCraft — Pro Tools/Audition-class DAW built in pure Rust — Edit/Mix windows, automation and 9.1.6 surround (Medium)
• DeckCraft — PowerPoint-class presentations rebuilt in pure Rust with .pptx compatibility and slide masters (Easy)
• CADCraft — AutoCAD-class 2D drafting in pure Rust — command line, snaps, layouts and associative dimensioning (Medium)
• GridCraft — Excel-class spreadsheets rebuilt in pure Rust — 500-plus functions, dynamic arrays and PivotTables on .xlsx (Easy)

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Hands-on Testing

Repository, homepage, license and README checked (2026-10-20). Not installed or run.