Task Relay

Standard Agent Skill · Package v2

Excel → PowerPoint Reporting Skill

Update a recurring PowerPoint deck from Excel while preserving the approved template and validating the resulting numbers.

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Works in Codex without Relay, with the documented bundled document tools. Relay is optional for coordinating and retaining the work.

Editorial illustration of spreadsheet data becoming a checked presentation report
Editorial illustration · Read the full experiment and actual output →
31 / 31numeric mappings checked
3 / 3editable chart datasets checked
8 / 8period labels updated

Works with

  • Codex: tested directly in Codex desktop with its bundled spreadsheet and presentation tools.
  • Compatible Agent Skills runtimes: portable standard instructions; adapter execution in other hosts remains untested.
  • Relay: the original trial coordinated a producer and separate reviewer through the local runtime.

Includes

  • SKILL.md, update scripts and runtime instructions.
  • Mapping and validation rules: required gaps block export; unsupported explanations stay marked for human review.
  • The separate example adds two workbooks, a six-slide template, mapping, source policy and checked output.

Use in Codex

  1. Download and unzip the Skill. Put its excel-to-powerpoint folder in your project's .agents/skills directory.
  2. Download the example and give Codex its workbooks, template and reviewed mapping.
  3. Ask Codex to use the Skill and save a new output. Follow the included runtime reference; restart Codex if the Skill does not appear.
Use $excel-to-powerpoint to update the January template from example/february.xlsx and example/report-mapping.json. Follow example/request.txt, keep charts editable, and save to a new results path.

Required document tools must be available in the host. Automatic discovery and a CLI without these tools were not qualified. Review a new mapping before using your own report.

Tested scope

One prepared six-slide template, explicit mappings and real UCI Online Retail transactions. The original Relay trial and a direct Codex run passed the saved-file checks. One explanation remained for human input. Charts are editable snapshots.

Keynote opened the original output with formatting differences and a font warning. Native PowerPoint and arbitrary templates remain untested.

Read the full experiment → · Verification summary · Skill instructions

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Optional coordination

Use with Relay

Keep job state, file versions, assigned checks and execution receipts, then continue the same work later. You can start directly in Codex.

Use with Relay

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