Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx skills add a-attia/scicomp-research-skills --skill research-slides-authoringgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/a-attia/scicomp-research-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
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Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00171 | $0.02832 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00068 | $0.01133 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00034 | $0.00566 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00017 | $0.00283 |
Grade A, and why
research-slides-authoring scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 22d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 226 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Research slides authoring
When to load this skill
Load before creating, revising or reviewing anything that will be presented rather than read at a desk: a talk deck, a poster, a status or funder briefing, a defense, a lab-meeting update. Load it for small requests too ("fix this slide", "make the figure fit", "add a slide about X"). The failures this skill prevents happen most often on small edits, because a small edit feels too small to check.
It is toolchain-agnostic. Every audit rule is stated against the
rendered PDF, which every toolchain produces. Toolchain specifics
live in references/toolchain-beamer.md and
references/toolchain-marp.md.
This is not a file-format skill. A pptx skill handles reading and
writing .pptx files. This skill decides what goes on the slides and
checks that it arrived. For a PowerPoint deck, load both.
The governing test
Could someone who has not read the project, glancing up from their phone, restate this slide's point?
A deck is not a project directory with page breaks. Every rule below serves this test.
The four principles
- Argue, don't file. A deck makes a claim and builds evidence for it. The order of the work plan is not an argument.
- Write for someone who is not you. The audience has not read the repository, does not share its vocabulary, and was not in the room when decisions were made.
- Form carries meaning. Colour, size, position, grouping and repetition each say something. Use them on purpose, consistently.
- Look, don't assume. A clean build proves the source compiled. It says nothing about whether the slide is right. Render it and look.
Workflow and gates
| Phase | Output | Gate |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Discovery | Answers to one batch of questions | Nothing asked that could have been read |
| 2. Brief | notes/talk_brief.md, one screen |
User approves |
| 3. Plan | notes/talk_plan.md: claim, beats, one line per slide |
User approves |
| 4. Draft | The deck | Build succeeds |
| 5. Audit | Rendered pages checked | After every visual edit, not once at the end |
| 6. Distribute | PDF delivered, location stated | Privacy pass if shared publicly |
What ships with it
10 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
- references/deck-structure.md 3.2 KB
- references/discovery-and-brief.md 3.6 KB
- references/posters.md 1.6 KB
- references/render-audit.md 4.2 KB
- references/self-review-checklist.md 2.7 KB
- references/slide-composition.md 3.9 KB
- references/toolchain-beamer.md 2.4 KB
- references/toolchain-marp.md 2.2 KB
- references/visual-design.md 3.6 KB
- scripts/audit-pages.sh 4.6 KB runs code
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 22d ago First seen · 226 lines · 171 tokens per session scan A 695642e8c359
research-slides-authoring is a skill published in the GitHub repository a-attia/scicomp-research-skills (13 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 171 tokens to every session and 2,832 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-15.
research-slides-authoring compared with skills from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| research-slides-authoringa-attia/scicomp-research-skills | Skill | 13 | 23d ago | MIT | A | 171 | Claude Code, Codex |
| imagegenopenai/codex | Skill | 133k | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 113 | Codex |
| playwright-climicrosoft/playwright | Skill | 99k | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 19 | Claude Code |
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| systematic-debuggingobra/superpowers | Skill | 313k | 3d ago | MIT | A | 21 | Claude Code |
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| next-partial-prefetching-adoptionvercel/next.js | Skill | 143k | yesterday | MIT | A | 103 | Claude Code |