PowerPoint has been the default for presentations for over 30 years. AI tools have made it faster to fill those slides, but the output is still the same: static boxes of text and bullet points that nobody wants to sit through. StackBlitz just shipped Bolt Slides, an open-source framework that reframes the problem entirely. Instead of generating a deck, it generates a web app , one where every slide is a live, responsive React component that can run charts, 3D scenes, calculators, whiteboards, or anything else you can build for the browser.
Slides that are actually web apps
Bolt Slides are presentation decks that are working web apps. The architecture is a classic paged deck , you advance slides with arrow keys, there's a thumbnail sidebar, a grid overview, click-to-reveal builds, and a synced presenter mode , but each slide is a plain React component, so if you can build it for the web, you can present it. That means a slide can embed a live mortgage calculator, a filterable data table, a 3D globe with real coordinates, or a collaborative whiteboard , not a screenshot of one.
The presenter mode opens in a second tab with a timer, next-slide preview, and editable notes, kept in sync with the audience tab via BroadcastChannel. Annotations are content-anchored: a circle drawn around a stat on a laptop rings the same stat on a phone, wherever the layout moved it. The URL hash tracks the current slide, so you can share a direct link to any individual slide.
The agent skill is the real product
The repo ships with a SKILL.md file inside .bolt/skills/slides/ , a structured instruction document that teaches any compatible AI agent how to theme, compose, and author a full deck. The bundled skill teaches the agent how to theme, compose, and write the deck , including setting the tab title and favicon , so a single prompt returns a finished, presentable app. This works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Bolt itself.
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