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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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Content

73%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

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

A highly actionable, well-workflowed skill with concrete executable commands and strong validation loops, undermined by significant repetition (script usage appears four times) and inline content that duplicates the reference files. Trimming the redundancy would markedly improve token efficiency.

Suggestions

Consolidate the four repeated generate_slide_image.py / slides_to_pdf.py usage blocks into one canonical 'Script Reference' section; cross-reference it elsewhere instead of re-explaining.

Move the detailed design-principle content that duplicates references/slide_design_principles.md out of SKILL.md, keeping only a concise summary plus the pointer.

Remove motivational padding and truisms Claude already knows (e.g. 'Scientific presentations are a critical medium for communicating research', 'Boring = Forgotten') to tighten conciseness.

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Conciseness

Noticeably verbose: generate_slide_image.py usage is explained four times (lines 81-143, 200-260, 980-1010, 1091-1103), the visual-review workflow is duplicated (554-610 and 790-820), design advice repeats across four sections, and motivational padding ('Boring = Forgotten', 'Scientific presentations are a critical medium...') states concepts Claude already knows.

2 / 5

Actionability

Fully executable, copy-paste-ready bash commands with complete prompt templates, formatting goals, citation inclusion, and figure-attach examples covering the common cases (title, content+citations, results with attached figures, comparison, methodology).

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Multi-step processes are clearly sequenced with explicit validation: the visual-review workflow has a validate→document→fix→re-validate feedback loop with stopping criteria (558-610), automated validate_presentation.py is provided, and checklists exist (660-673). Validation is present, so the destructive/batch cap does not apply.

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Good structure with a clear overview and well-signaled one-level-deep references (all referenced files in references/ and assets/ exist and are listed in dedicated sections), but substantial design guidance is duplicated inline despite slide_design_principles.md existing, and several sections repeat content already in references.

4 / 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 strong, well-structured description that clearly states capabilities and trigger contexts with concrete talk-type keywords. It would reach the top band by adding file extensions (.pptx, .tex, .pdf) and sharpening the distinction from a generic presentation/pptx skill.

Suggestions

Add file extensions users would mention, e.g. '.pptx', '.tex', 'Beamer', or '.pdf', to push trigger_term_quality to 5.

Tighten distinctiveness by framing the niche upfront (e.g. 'scientific/research talks') before the generic 'PowerPoint slides' trigger to reduce overlap with a general pptx skill.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Lists multiple concrete actions ('Build slide decks and presentations', 'Provides slide structure, design templates, timing guidance, and visual validation') plus two output formats (PowerPoint, LaTeX Beamer), giving comprehensive coverage.

5 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers 'what' (build decks, provide structure/templates/timing/validation) and 'when' ('Use this for making PowerPoint slides, conference presentations... thesis defense slides'), with concrete trigger phrases.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Rich natural synonyms users would say ('PowerPoint slides', 'conference presentations', 'seminar talks', 'thesis defense slides', 'scientific talk'), but missing file extensions like .pptx, .tex, or .pdf that anchor 5 expects.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Clearly niched to scientific/research talks with distinctive triggers (defense, seminar, conference), but 'PowerPoint slides' and 'Works with PowerPoint' overlap a general pptx skill, giving minor conflict risk.

4 / 5

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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.

Validation — 13 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

CriteriaDescriptionResult

skill_md_line_count

SKILL.md is long (1154 lines); consider splitting into references/ and linking

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metadata_version

'metadata.version' is missing

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referenced_paths_exist

Referenced path issues: 1 missing

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Total

13

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16

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Repository

foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills

Path

bundled/skills/scientific-slides/SKILL.md

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