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PCafe × ModelScopeThe HTML slide deck skill from the ModelScope community

ModelScope’s Skills Center gathers open models and agent skills. Skills install into ~/.agents/skills/, which Codex, Cursor, OpenCode and other agents read. PCafe’s skill installs there too and works with ModelScope’s open models.

Install in ModelScopeSee sample decks

Step one

Install PCafe in ModelScope

  1. Install globally with npx skills, or unpack into ~/.agents/skills/ with the second command.
  2. Any agent that reads ~/.agents/skills/ can then call pcafe.

Afterwards, open a new chat and ask what the pcafe skill does. If it can tell you, the skill is loaded.

npx skills add Web-Casa/pcafe -s pcafe -g -y

or

mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && curl -fsSL https://p.cafe/downloads/pcafe-skill.zip -o /tmp/pcafe-skill.zip && unzip -oq /tmp/pcafe-skill.zip -d ~/.agents/skills

Step two

Working with ModelScope once it is installed

  • Point your agent at an open model on ModelScope API-Inference, then say “make a deck with pcafe”.
  • Skill and model are separate: switch models without touching the skill.
  • To show a deck in a ModelScope Studio, upload the single HTML file it builds.

A prompt to copy

Using the pcafe skill, turn this paper’s method and results into a 12-slide lab-meeting talk in the grid style, citing chart figures. Build once npx pcafe check prints PASS.

Naming the file, the audience, the length and what counts as done helps far more than “make it look nice”.

Results

Decks made with PCafe

What’s new in Fedora Linux 4516 slidesMeet Fedora Linux14 slidesMeet PostgreSQL16 slidesWhat Cloudflare does14 slidesDeepSeek-V4.1-Flash13 slidesAn introduction to object storage14 slides

All sample decks →

Why PCafe

Why use PCafe for slides in ModelScope

Fixed templates that hold their layout

ModelScope only writes your content into PCafe’s 270-plus open-source templates; layout, type sizes and colour come from the template, so the deck doesn’t change shape every time.

Delivered only at PASS

Every slide has text limits. Overflow, overlap and tiny type fail the check, and ModelScope trims or splits slides and checks again until PASS.

One offline HTML file

The result is one HTML file that presents with a double-click and no network; it also exports to PDF and editable PowerPoint.

Questions

PCafe × ModelScope: questions

Good enough with open models?

Yes. Templates and text limits are in the skill, and the check stops overflow and overlap; stronger models just need fewer rounds.

Is PCafe free?

The open-source version is free for personal and commercial work and keeps a “Made with PCafe” credit. Pro adds 11 paid template packs and lets you remove the credit.

Can I get a PowerPoint file?

Yes. Have ModelScope run npx pcafe pptx <name>; the text comes out as editable text boxes. PDF export works too.

Do I need Node.js?

Building the HTML needs Node.js 20.19 or later, and ModelScope runs the npx commands. Without it, the skill falls back to a storyline and a slide-by-slide outline.

How do I install on Windows?

The npx skills command works in PowerShell too. The unzip one-liners are for macOS and Linux; on Windows, download pcafe-skill.zip and extract it into the matching skills folder under your user folder, for example %USERPROFILE%\.agents\skills.

Other tools

PCafe also works in

All skills and plugins →See the Pro templates →