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

Highly actionable content with concrete commands and a clear sequenced workflow, undermined mainly by repetition that inflates token cost. Consolidating the duplicated guidance and reference lists would lift conciseness and progressive disclosure.

Suggestions

Deduplicate the formatting-consistency/citation/--attach protocol: state it once in the main workflow and have the Quick Start reference it instead of restating it verbatim.

Merge the 'Core Capabilities' and 'Reference Files' reference lists into a single, clearly signaled catalog to remove the doubled listing.

Promote an explicit inline validation checkpoint (e.g., run scripts/validate_presentation.py and inspect rendered slides) into the Quick Start sequence to strengthen workflow clarity.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is mostly efficient but visibly padded: the formatting-consistency, citation, and --attach guidance is restated nearly verbatim in the Quick Start, the reference list is duplicated across 'Core Capabilities' and 'Reference Files', and 'Key Principles' rehashes earlier sections. Not a 2 because the bulk is actionable guidance rather than explaining concepts Claude already knows.	3 / 5
Actionability	Fully executable, copy-paste-ready bash commands with complete prompts, flags (--attach, --visual-only, -o), and output paths covering title, intro, results, and methodology cases, matching the top anchor.	5 / 5
Workflow Clarity	A clear Plan → Generate → Combine → Review & Iterate → Practice → Finalize sequence with time budgets and a review/regenerate feedback loop, plus validation referenced via visual_review_workflow.md and validate_presentation.py. Not a 5 because validation is pointed to rather than given as an explicit inline checkpoint.	4 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	Good overview-to-reference structure with well-signaled, one-level-deep links (verified the referenced bundle files exist) and an explicit Assets section. Not a 5 because the reference catalog is duplicated between the 'Core Capabilities' prose and the 'Reference Files' list, a minor organization gap.	4 / 5
	Total	16 / 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.

A strong, third-person description that clearly states capabilities and provides concrete 'Use this for...' triggers across talk types and formats. Minor gains are available from adding file extensions and a few synonyms.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists several concrete capabilities ('slide structure, design templates, timing guidance, and visual validation') and supported formats ('PowerPoint and LaTeX Beamer'), with only minor coverage gaps; not a 5 because it stops short of enumerating the full set of concrete actions.	4 / 5
Completeness	Explicitly answers both what ('Build slide decks and presentations for research talks... Provides slide structure...') and when ('Use this for making PowerPoint slides, conference presentations...') with concrete trigger phrases, matching the top anchor.	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Strong natural trigger coverage ('PowerPoint slides, conference presentations, seminar talks, research presentations, thesis defense slides, or any scientific talk'); a few common synonyms/extensions like '.pptx' or 'poster' are missing, keeping it below 5.	4 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	The scientific/research-talk niche is mostly distinct with specific triggers, but there is minor overlap risk with a general PowerPoint/pptx skill; not a 5 because the format triggers (PowerPoint, Beamer) are shared with broader skills.	4 / 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/scientific-slides/SKILL.md
Commit: b2a92ba

Reviewed: 3 days ago

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