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Create professional research posters in LaTeX using beamerposter, tikzposter, or baposter. Support for conference presentations, academic posters, and scientific communication. Includes layout design, color schemes, multi-column formats, figure integration, and poster-specific best practices for visual communication.

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SKILL.md
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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

A well-structured skill body with a clear staged workflow, explicit review gates and recovery loops, copy-paste-ready generation and compile commands, and exemplary progressive disclosure into eight real, well-signaled reference files. The main weaknesses are repeated restatement of the AI-graphics limits with conflicting numbers across sections, which both pads the document and muddies the validation thresholds.

Suggestions

State the AI-graphic limits once (in the hard-limits table) and have Stage 2 and Common Pitfalls reference them instead of restating conflicting numbers (3-4 vs 4-5 elements, 10 vs 15 words).

Collapse the Common Pitfalls 'Best Practices' checklist into the pitfalls list (or move both to a reference file) — it almost entirely restates the hard limits and pitfalls.

Show a one-line usage example for 'review_poster.sh' (e.g. 'bash scripts/review_poster.sh poster.tex') so both helper scripts are copy-paste ready.

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Conciseness

Mostly efficient — hard-limit tables, concrete commands, and a staged workflow — but the AI-graphics limits are restated in at least three places with conflicting numbers ('3-4 maximum' vs 'Maximum 4-5 elements' vs 'Keep to 3-5 max'; '10 maximum' vs 'Maximum 15 words'), and the long Common Pitfalls / Best Practices checklists restate the same rules again. Fits 'mostly efficient but includes some unnecessary explanation or could be tightened'; not 2 because the bulk of the content is actionable guidance Claude does not already know, not filler.

3 / 5

Actionability

Concrete executable commands throughout: 'mkdir -p figures', full 'python scripts/generate_schematic.py' invocations with complete prompts, 'tlmgr install beamerposter tikzposter baposter', 'pdflatex poster.tex', and 'grep -i overfull poster.log'. Not 5 because 'review_poster.sh' and 'generate_schematic_ai.py' are named but their usage is never shown, so those parts are not copy-paste ready.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

A clear six-stage sequence with two mandatory review gates ('Before generating... After generating, before assembly'), explicit recovery loops ('Any failure means regenerate or split'), and post-compile validation ('run grep -i overfull poster.log and inspect all four edges'). Not 5 because the validation thresholds are internally inconsistent — the hard-limit table says 3-4 elements max and 10 words, Stage 2 says 4-5 elements and 15 words, and the review step says 'More than 5? → Regenerate' — leaving the checkpoint ambiguous.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The body is an overview with hard limits, and all detail is cleanly split into eight one-level-deep reference files (ai_graphics_for_posters, latex_poster_reference, compilation_and_quality_control, poster_patterns_and_presentation, plus package/layout/design/content guides), each listed with a one-line scope description and all verified to exist. Scripts and asset templates are also clearly signaled. Matches the anchor: clear overview with well-signaled one-level-deep references and easy navigation.

5 / 5

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Description

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Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A solid description with a clear, specific 'what' (LaTeX research posters via beamerposter, tikzposter, baposter with named capabilities) and good natural trigger keywords. Its main weakness is the absence of any 'Use when...' clause or equivalent explicit trigger guidance, which caps completeness and leaves the 'when' only weakly implied.

Suggestions

Add an explicit trigger clause, e.g. 'Use when the user asks for a research poster, poster session, or A0/A1 conference poster, or mentions beamerposter, tikzposter, or baposter.'

Include common variations users actually say, such as 'poster session' and standard sizes (A0, A1, 36×48"), to broaden natural keyword coverage.

Replace the generic 'Support for conference presentations, academic posters, and scientific communication' sentence with a concrete capability (e.g. 'Compile print-ready PDFs with embedded fonts') to strengthen specificity.

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Specificity

Names the domain and packages ('Create professional research posters in LaTeX using beamerposter, tikzposter, or baposter') and lists several concrete capabilities ('layout design, color schemes, multi-column formats, figure integration'), matching the 'several specific actions; minor gaps' anchor. Not 5 because 'Support for conference presentations, academic posters, and scientific communication' is a generic capability sentence rather than a concrete action; not 3 because multiple specific actions are listed, not just 1-2.

4 / 5

Completeness

The 'what' is clear (create LaTeX research posters with three named packages and listed capabilities), but there is no 'Use when...' clause or equivalent explicit trigger guidance, which caps completeness at 3 per the judging guidelines. Not 4 because the 'when' is only weakly implied by 'conference presentations'; not 2 because the 'what' is concrete and comprehensive.

3 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Contains good natural keywords users would say: 'research posters', 'conference presentations', 'academic posters', plus the package names beamerposter/tikzposter/baposter. Not 5 because common variations like 'poster session', 'A0/A1', and a 'when the user mentions posters' style trigger phrase are missing; not 3 because coverage goes beyond one or two generic keywords.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Clear niche (LaTeX research posters via three specific named packages) with distinct triggers; unlikely to fire for presentation, slide, or general-document skills. Matches the anchor 5 example's structure of a specific tool plus concrete task domain.

5 / 5

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Validation

93%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

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