latex-posters

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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Content

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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.

The body is well-structured with a strong, validated workflow and excellent progressive disclosure into real reference files. Its main weakness is conciseness — the AI-graphic constraints are repeated across multiple sections — and minor template placeholders in the figure-generation examples.

Suggestions

Consolidate the AI-graphic limits into the hard-limits table and have Stage 2 and Common Pitfalls reference it instead of restating the rules.

Replace template placeholders like [icon1] [icon2] with a concrete worked example to make the figure prompts fully copy-paste ready.

Trim the overlapping Best Practices list, which largely rephrases constraints already stated in the hard-limits table.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	Mostly efficient instructional prose without basic-concept padding, but the AI-graphic limits are restated three times (hard-limits table, Stage 2, Common Pitfalls) and the Pitfalls/Best Practices lists overlap the already-stated rules, so it could be tightened.	3 / 5
Actionability	Provides concrete, runnable commands (mkdir, tlmgr install, pdflatex, generate_schematic.py with full prompts) covering the common cases, but the figure prompts contain template placeholders like [icon1] that the user must fill in.	4 / 5
Workflow Clarity	A clear six-stage sequence with explicit validation checkpoints — two mandatory review gates before/after generation, 25%-zoom readability check, and 'grep -i overfull' overflow detection with regenerate-or-split feedback loops.	5 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	The body is an overview with well-signaled, one-level-deep references (all eight referenced files exist in references/) plus scripts/ and assets/ templates, and the bulk detail (packages, layout, design, AI-graphic rules, QC) is split into separate reference files.	5 / 5
	Total	17 / 20 Passed

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.

The description is specific and distinctive, naming concrete actions and packages, but lacks an explicit 'Use when...' trigger clause, which caps completeness. Trigger-term coverage is good but could add synonyms and file extensions.

Suggestions

Add an explicit 'Use when...' clause, e.g. 'Use when creating research posters for conferences, thesis defenses, or poster sessions in LaTeX.'

Include natural trigger synonyms and the .tex file extension to broaden trigger-term coverage.

Consider leading with the trigger clause so the 'when' is as prominent as the 'what'.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists multiple concrete actions — 'Create professional research posters', 'layout design, color schemes, multi-column formats, figure integration' — and names three specific packages (beamerposter, tikzposter, baposter), giving comprehensive coverage.	5 / 5
Completeness	Clearly answers 'what' (create LaTeX research posters with layout, color, figures, etc.) but provides no explicit 'Use when...' trigger clause; the capability list only weakly implies when to invoke it, capping completeness at 3 per the rubric.	3 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Good natural keyword coverage ('research posters', 'conference presentations', 'academic posters', 'scientific communication'), but missing common synonyms and file extensions like '.tex' or 'poster session'.	4 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Occupies a clear niche ('research posters in LaTeX using beamerposter, tikzposter, or baposter') with distinct triggers and minimal overlap risk against other skills.	5 / 5
	Total	17 / 20 Passed

Validation

93%

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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

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
metadata_field	'metadata' should map string keys to string values	Warning

	Total	15 / 16 Passed

Repository: K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills
Path: skills/latex-posters/SKILL.md
Commit: b2a92ba

Reviewed: 3 days ago

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