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PCafe × Qwen WorkPolished HTML slide decks in Qwen Work

Qwen Work (千问办公) is Alibaba’s all-in-one office agent with many built-in skills and room for your own. With pcafe installed it turns your material into HTML decks with steady layouts that pass their checks, and exports PDF or PowerPoint.

Install in Qwen WorkSee sample decks

Step one

Install PCafe in Qwen Work

  1. Download the skill.
  2. In the left sidebar open Extensions → Skills, click Install skill and upload the unzipped pcafe folder (SKILL.md and references). Or place it in ~/.qwenworkcn/skills/ with the command below.

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

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

Step two

Working with Qwen Work once it is installed

  • Say “make a deck with the pcafe skill” and attach a document or sheet.
  • Where Qwen Work can run commands it builds the full HTML; ask for a PPTX too when you need PowerPoint.
  • Enterprise teams can submit pcafe to the organisation’s skill library for admin review.

A prompt to copy

Using the pcafe skill, turn the uploaded sales sheet into an 8-slide monthly business review for leadership in the editorial style. Cite every number and export both HTML and PPTX.

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

PCafe geometry10 slidesPCafe sticker book7 slidesWhat’s new in Fedora Linux 4516 slidesMeet Fedora Linux14 slidesMeet PostgreSQL16 slidesWhat Cloudflare does14 slides

All sample decks →

Why PCafe

Why use PCafe for slides in Qwen Work

Fixed templates that hold their layout

Qwen Work 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 Qwen Work 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 × Qwen Work: questions

Qwen Work makes slides already. Why PCafe?

Its built-in slides change layout every time. PCafe uses fixed templates and checks, so the same kind of content always gets the same steady layout with no overflow, which suits recurring reports.

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 Qwen Work 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 Qwen Work 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 →