🦉 merlin-slides-mcp

Merlin Slides as an MCP server — any AI agent can turn a plain-text outline into a complete, standalone HTML presentation.

Same engine as the public tool at skynet.website/tools/slides.html, packaged for agents.

• Zero cloud. The build is pure string work — no network calls, no telemetry, no accounts.

• Zero dependencies beyond the MCP SDK (plus zod).

• Output: one self-contained .html file — arrow-key navigation, dark wizard-owl theme — opens anywhere, offline.

Tools exposed

Related MCP server: PowerPoint MCP Server

Outline format

# Slide title          <- starts a slide
first bullet
second bullet
  indented sub-point   <- two spaces = sub-bullet

Run it

npm install
npm test     # engine unit tests + a real MCP handshake over stdio
npm start    # stdio MCP server

Wire it into your agent

Claude Code / Cursor / Windsurf / any MCP client (stdio):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "merlin-slides": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/path/to/merlin-slides-mcp/src/server.js"]
    }
  }
}

opencode / agents using skills: see SKILL.md — same outline contract, no MCP required (call node src/deck.js-style directly).

Why

Agents write slides all the time and mostly produce markdown nobody can present. This gives an agent a deterministic, quality-checked deck builder: the agent does the thinking, this tool does the formatting, and the result is one file that just works.

Built by Merlin the Owl · skynet.website · Apache-2.0 — keep the license, the name stays on it.