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Skill southleft/skills-for-figma/skills/build-slides-figma

Author Figma Slides presentations — list/create/duplicate/reorder/delete slides, read the slide grid, add text and shapes to a slide, set slide background color, set or read slide transitions (dissolve, slide-from, push-from, smart-animate), focus a slide, and toggle skip. Use when the user wants to build or edit a Figma Slides deck. Triggers: 'create a slide', 'add a slide to the deck', 'reorder slides', 'set the slide background', 'add a transition between slides', 'add text/shape to slide 3', 'read what's on this slide', 'skip this slide in the presentation'. Figma Slides files only (figma.editorType === 'slides'). Requires the Figma Desktop app (Plugin API).From its SKILL.md

Install
npx -y skills add southleft/skills-for-figma --skill build-slides-figma

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SKILL.md

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build-slides-figma — author Figma Slides decks

Build and edit Figma Slides presentations: manage the slide grid (list / create / duplicate / reorder / delete / focus / skip), add content (text, shapes, background color), and control transitions. Each slide is a SLIDE node; the deck is a 2D grid (figma.getSlideGrid() → rows of slides).

Skill boundaries

  • use_figma rules — load the official figma-use skill first; it is the full Figma Plugin API reference. Essentials these scripts rely on: plain JS with top-level await + return (no IIFE, no figma.closePlugin(); console.log is not returned), inputs inlined as const at the top of each script, colors in 0–1 range, load fonts before any text op, await figma.getNodeByIdAsync(...), and atomic errors (a failed script applies nothing — read the error, fix, retry).
  • One complete snippet per operation → references/slides-snippets.md.

Workflow

  1. Confirm it's a Slides file. Every op throws outside Slides. Check first: return { editorType: figma.editorType }; — it must be 'slides'.
  2. List slides to get IDs and grid positions (scripts/snippet List slides). Slide IDs are what every other op references.
  3. Pick the operation from references/slides-snippets.md: create / duplicate / delete / reorder slides; add text / shape; set background; set / get transition; focus; skip; read slide content.
  4. Run the snippet via use_figma (skillNames: "build-slides-figma"), editing the inlined constants.
  5. Return created/changed slide IDs and re-list or read-content to confirm.

Notes

  • Adding text loads a font first. add text to slide calls await figma.loadFontAsync({ family, style }) before setting .characters — never skip it. Default is Inter / Regular.
  • Create at a grid position with figma.createSlide({ row, col }), or figma.createSlide() to append.
  • Transition style values: NONE, DISSOLVE, SLIDE_FROM_LEFT, SLIDE_FROM_RIGHT, SLIDE_FROM_BOTTOM, SLIDE_FROM_TOP, PUSH_FROM_LEFT, PUSH_FROM_RIGHT, PUSH_FROM_BOTTOM, PUSH_FROM_TOP, SMART_ANIMATE. Timing defaults to { type: 'ON_CLICK' }.
  • Background is implemented as a full-bleed (1920×1080) Background rectangle inserted at index 0; re-running updates the existing one instead of stacking.
  • reorder takes a 2D array of slide IDs (rows × columns) and rebuilds the grid via figma.setSlideGrid. Every ID must exist in the current grid or it throws.
  • Skip toggles slide.isSkippedSlide (note: the property is isSkippedSlide, not skipped).
  • These tools require the Figma Desktop app (the Plugin API isn't available in the browser).

What ships with it: 1 file

8.4 KB alongside SKILL.md

references/

Gives 0 of the 12 instructions most slides presentations skills give in 727 tokens

Counted across 547 of the 547 authors here whose files we hold, read 2026-09-06

  • Ensure every slide fits inside one viewportin 31 of 547, across 18 files
  • Keep one idea per slidein 27 of 547, across 24 files
  • Default to one self-contained HTML filein 24 of 547, across 16 files
  • Check for product marketing context firstin 21 of 547, across 7 files
  • Read STYLE_PRESETS.md before generatingin 21 of 547, across 12 files
  • Involve reps in creationin 20 of 547, across 6 files
  • Tailor to persona and deal stagein 20 of 547, across 6 files
  • Generate three single-slide preview filesin 17 of 547, across 11 files
  • Delete temporary preview files at handoffin 16 of 547, across 8 files
  • Support keyboard and touch navigationin 16 of 547, across 7 files
  • Keep one-pagers to a single pagein 15 of 547, across 5 files
  • Use bold headers and short bulletsin 14 of 547, across 4 files

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  • Confirm the editor type is slides
  • Load fonts before adding any text
  • Use atomic errors for scripts
  • Return created or changed slide IDs

Grouped from the skills themselves: near-identical wordings counted once, and counted by distinct author, so one author publishing three of these counts once. Length counted with cl100k_base; the agent that loads this file may tokenize it differently.

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