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@pftom pftom released this 13 Jul 03:31
v0.1.0
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🌟 Codename: Slides, visible end to end

Codex Slides 0.1.0 is the first packaged release of the open-source, agent-native slide studio inside Codex. Start with a prompt, repository, or source files; keep research, outline, style, rendering, editing, presenting, and export visible in one durable local project.

✨ Added

🏠 Browser-first projects

  • Start from Home, a Community Style, or one of 24 guided scenarios.
  • Review requirements, research, outline, and visual direction before rendering.
  • Keep projects durable on disk, reopen interrupted work, and monitor or cancel navigation-independent runs.
  • Use Design Files, @ references, reusable project templates, and always-on brand design systems as persistent project context.

🎨 Visual systems and generation

  • Choose from 45 curated deck templates and 73 Community Styles across reports, infographics, diagrams, data, dashboards, product, brand, editorial, illustration, and more.
  • Render progressively or enable Fast mode to generate pages in parallel.
  • Produce image-native slides at 1K, 2K, or 4K in five aspect ratios: 16:9, 4:3, 1:1, 9:16, and 3:4.
  • Run source-backed Deep Research and keep the resulting brief and citations inspectable in Design Files.

🧠 Agent, Skill, and MCP workflows

  • Operate Codex Slides through portable Agent Skills, a headless CLI, and 38 typed MCP tools.
  • Create durable project shells, manage workflow checkpoints, upload source material, render or resume decks, and hand Codex back to exact Browser surfaces.
  • Queue, edit, prioritize, reorder, and persist follow-up chat requests while an active turn is running.

🪄 Edit, present, and export

  • Add, duplicate, move, regenerate, or delete slides; apply transitions; replace imagery; and edit through chat or direct marks on the canvas.
  • Capture independent deck versions, inspect historical slides, restore a version as the new current state, and export from version-owned assets.
  • Generate and edit speaker notes, run audience playback, or use synchronized dual-window Presenter Mode with notes, filmstrip, navigation, and timer.
  • Export production-ready PDF and image-native PPTX files with speaker notes preserved.

🖥️ Desktop apps

  • Native Electron packages are available for macOS Apple Silicon, macOS Intel, Windows x64, and Linux x64.
  • The packaged app embeds the complete standalone Codex Slides server while keeping local project data outside the application bundle.

🔁 Reliability and recovery

  • Project state stays synchronized across Browser surfaces and refreshes from the canonical on-disk source.
  • Interrupted renders can resume without recreating the project.
  • Packaged builds exclude local data, temporary Next.js output, pnpm store metadata, and developer-only state.
  • Repeated desktop builds now safely clean stale standalone symlinks and recover missing pnpm store artifacts.

📦 Downloads

Platform Architecture Assets
macOS Apple Silicon (arm64) Codex-Slides-0.1.0-mac-arm64.dmg, Codex-Slides-0.1.0-mac-arm64.zip
macOS Intel (x64) Codex-Slides-0.1.0-mac-x64.dmg, Codex-Slides-0.1.0-mac-x64.zip
Windows x64 Codex-Slides-0.1.0-windows-x64-Setup.exe
Linux x64 Codex-Slides-0.1.0-linux-x86_64.AppImage, Codex-Slides-0.1.0-linux-amd64.deb

Use SHA256SUMS.txt to verify downloaded installers. GitHub also provides source archives in ZIP and TAR.GZ formats.

✅ Verification

The release passed:

  • TypeScript type checking
  • 57 automated tests
  • i18n validation across 3 locales and 928 source keys
  • project-sync and Browser-first contract checks
  • Agent Skill probe (34 commands / 36 capabilities)
  • MCP probe (38 tools)
  • Electron shell and macOS/Windows/Linux packaging contracts
  • a full standalone production build
  • local macOS arm64 and x64 DMG/ZIP packaging

⚠️ Known limitations

  • This initial desktop release is not code-signed or notarized. macOS Gatekeeper and Windows SmartScreen may show an unverified-developer warning.
  • PPTX export is image-native: each slide is a full-slide visual rather than a set of individually editable PowerPoint shapes.
  • Agent-driven generation requires a working local Codex installation and sign-in.

🙏 Thanks to @pftom and everyone whose work in Open Design informed the Browser-first, agent-native workflow.

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