Scientific Slides Builder
Builds research talk decks (PowerPoint, Beamer, AI-generated image slides) with structure, timing and visual review guidance.
- Repository
- K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills
- Stars
- 55,780
- Licence
- MIT
- Files
- 14 files
What it does
Once installed, the agent follows this skill's guidance when you ask for a research talk, seminar, conference or thesis defense deck. It plans slide structure and timing, applies scientific design principles, and can produce slides as editable PowerPoint or LaTeX Beamer files, or as AI-generated image slides combined into a PDF. It also includes checks to review rendered slides for layout and consistency.
Great for
- Graduate students preparing a thesis defense or conference talk
- Researchers building a seminar or journal club presentation from their own figures
- People who want help planning a talk's narrative and timing before designing it
Skip it if
- Final results slides where exact numbers and figures must be correct: the image workflow is a draft generator and may redraw data, labels or citations incorrectly
- Users who cannot review and verify every generated claim, citation and scientific relationship before presenting
- Environments without the listed software; PowerPoint, Beamer and rendering steps need TeX Live, Node.js, PptxGenJS or LibreOffice
Try asking
- “Plan a 15-minute conference talk on my protein folding results and suggest slide structure”
- “Create a Beamer thesis defense deck from my figures in the figures folder”
- “Make a PowerPoint for a 45-minute seminar with a clean scientific design”
- “Review my rendered slides for layout problems and inconsistent formatting”
Install in 3 steps
- 1
Download the skill
The ZIP contains the 14 original files, the MIT licence and an attribution note.
scientific-slides.zip - 2
Add it to your agent
Claude Code (all projects)
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip scientific-slides.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)
mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip scientific-slides.zip -d .claude/skills/Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.
- 3
Ask for the task
No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.
Get better results
- Supply your own figures and data files; attach originals rather than relying on the image model to reproduce quantitative results
- Verify every AI-generated label, citation and claim against your source before presenting
- Set your presenter name, affiliation and talk length up front so structure and timing guidance fits your slot
What's inside
- assets/powerpoint_design_guide.md
- assets/timing_guidelines.md
- references/beamer_guide.md
- references/common_pitfalls.md
- references/data_visualization_slides.md
- references/presentation_structure.md
- references/presentation_workflow.md
- references/prompt_writing.md
- references/script_reference.md
- references/slide_capabilities.md
- references/slide_design_principles.md
- references/talk_types_guide.md
- references/visual_review_workflow.md
- SKILL.md
Redistributed unmodified from K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills under the MIT licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.