making-academic-presentations

Create academic presentation slide decks and optionally demo videos from research papers. Use when the user asks to "make slides", "create a deck", "make a presentation", "demo video", "paper slides", "conference talk slides", or wants to turn a paper into a visual presentation. Covers slide generation, narration scripts, TTS audio, and video assembly.

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A well-structured, highly actionable skill body with strong progressive disclosure and concrete executable guidance. The main gap is the absence of explicit validation/verification checkpoints for the batch TTS and video-assembly stages, which the rubric caps at workflow_clarity 3 for batch operations.

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Add an explicit validation checkpoint after video assembly, e.g. probe the concatenated output with `ffprobe` to confirm sample rate/stereo/AAC match before declaring success.

Insert a verify step into the batch TTS workflow (check every expected MP3 exists and is non-empty) so the batch pipeline has a feedback loop.

Trim the inline edge-tts quick-start snippet since the same code is fully covered in references/tts-engines.md, keeping the body purely as a pointer.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	Largely lean and assumes competence — pipeline diagram, tables, and code blocks earn their place — with only minor instances of restating reference content inline (e.g., the TTS quick-start snippet duplicates the reference).	4 / 5
Actionability	Copy-paste-ready code and commands throughout: executable ffmpeg invocations, a runnable edge-tts snippet, concrete nanobanana /edit usage, and install commands for every dependency.	5 / 5
Workflow Clarity	The 4-stage pipeline is clearly sequenced, but batch/destructive operations (batch TTS, ffmpeg concat, overwriting outputs with -y) lack explicit validation checkpoints — the "always re-encode" gotcha is stated as a rule but no verify-after step is built into the workflow, capping clarity at 3 per the batch-operation rule.	3 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	Clear overview body with well-signaled, one-level-deep references to real files (slide-generation.md, tts-engines.md, pptx-conversion.md) plus batch scripts in scripts/, all referenced with exact paths and none nested beyond one level.	5 / 5
	Total	17 / 20 Passed

Description

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A strong description with concrete capabilities, a rich set of natural trigger phrases, and explicit what-and-when guidance in third person. The only mild weakness is that the listed actions are somewhat broad categories and the triggers could marginally overlap a generic presentation tool.

Suggestions

Tighten the capability list from broad categories ("slide generation, narration scripts") to a couple of more concrete verbs to push specificity toward 5.

Add a distinguishing qualifier such as "from research papers / academic sources" earlier in the first sentence to further reduce overlap with generic slide skills.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists several concrete actions — "slide generation, narration scripts, TTS audio, and video assembly" — and names the domain clearly, though the actions are broad categories rather than maximally granular.	4 / 5
Completeness	Explicitly answers both — "what" (create academic slide decks and optionally demo videos from research papers; covers slide generation, narration, TTS, video assembly) and "when" via a concrete "Use when the user asks to..." clause with multiple trigger phrases.	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Comprehensive natural triggers with synonyms and phrasings users actually say: "make slides", "create a deck", "make a presentation", "demo video", "paper slides", "conference talk slides".	5 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	The academic-papers-to-decks niche is fairly distinct with specific triggers, but general presentation terms could overlap with a generic slide-editing skill; minimal rather than zero conflict risk.	4 / 5
	Total	18 / 20 Passed

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Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

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Repository: OpenLAIR/dr-claw
Path: skills/making-academic-presentations/SKILL.md
Commit: 4b35756

Reviewed: 5 days ago

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