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scientific-slides

Build slide decks and presentations for research talks. Use this for making PowerPoint slides, conference presentations, seminar talks, research presentations, thesis defense slides, or any scientific talk. Provides slide structure, design templates, timing guidance, and visual validation. Works with PowerPoint and LaTeX Beamer.

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Quality

Content

77%

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

The body is highly actionable with concrete scripts and a strong validation feedback loop, and it points to a well-organized real bundle. Its main weakness is conciseness: the same workflow and design guidance are repeated across many sections and much of the inline content duplicates the reference files rather than serving as a lean overview.

Suggestions

Consolidate the Nano Banana Pro / PDF workflow into a single section; it is currently described in 'Slide Generation', 'Script Reference', 'Implementation Options', 'Tools and Scripts', and 'Quick Start' with overlapping content.

Trim inline design-principle, talk-type, timing, and pitfall lists now that they exist in references/slide_design_principles.md, references/talk_types_guide.md, and assets/timing_guidelines.md — summarize and link instead of restating.

Remove general presentation-design exposition (font sizes, color contrast basics, 'one idea per slide') that Claude already knows; keep only the skill-specific guidance and commands.

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Conciseness

The body is ~1146 lines with the Nano Banana Pro workflow repeated across five sections (slide generation, script reference, prompt writing, implementation options, tools/scripts, quick start) and restates design philosophy and pitfalls multiple times, plus basic presentation concepts Claude already knows. It is mostly actionable but heavily padded and could be tightened considerably; not a 1 because the core guidance is concrete, and not a 3 because the repetition and concept explanation are clearly unnecessary.

2 / 3

Actionability

Provides fully executable, copy-paste-ready commands with real script paths and flags — e.g. 'python scripts/generate_slide_image.py ... -o slides/01_title.png --attach slides/02_intro.png' and 'python scripts/slides_to_pdf.py slides/*.png -o presentation.pdf' — plus concrete prompt templates and validation commands.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

Sequences multi-step work (Plan -> Generate -> Combine to PDF -> Visual validation) with an explicit feedback loop: convert to images, inspect against a checklist, document issues, fix, and 'Repeat Steps 1-5 until no critical issues remain' with stopping criteria, plus validate_presentation.py.

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

References and assets are real, well-signaled, and one level deep (verified: references/*.md and assets/* exist), but the SKILL.md itself is a ~1146-line monolith that duplicates design principles, talk-type guidance, timing, and pitfalls which already live in those reference files — 'content that should be separate is inline' pulls it below 3.

2 / 3

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Description

100%

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 strong, third-person description that concisely states capabilities and provides an explicit 'Use this for' trigger with broad natural keyword coverage. It is specific, complete, and well-scoped to scientific presentations.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Lists multiple concrete actions — 'Build slide decks and presentations', 'Provides slide structure, design templates, timing guidance, and visual validation', 'Works with PowerPoint and LaTeX Beamer' — matching the anchor for listing several specific concrete actions.

3 / 3

Completeness

Clearly answers both what (build decks, provide structure/templates/timing/validation, works with PowerPoint and Beamer) and when via the explicit 'Use this for making PowerPoint slides, conference presentations...' trigger clause.

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Covers natural terms users would say — 'PowerPoint slides, conference presentations, seminar talks, research presentations, thesis defense slides, or any scientific talk' — with good breadth of common variations.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Scoped specifically to research/scientific talks with distinct triggers (conference, seminar, defense, journal club), giving it a clear niche unlikely to fire for unrelated skills.

3 / 3

Total

12

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12

Passed

Validation

81%

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

Validation13 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

CriteriaDescriptionResult

skill_md_line_count

SKILL.md is long (1155 lines); consider splitting into references/ and linking

Warning

metadata_field

'metadata' should map string keys to string values

Warning

frontmatter_unknown_keys

Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata

Warning

Total

13

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16

Passed

Repository
K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer
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