paper2pr: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/new-deck/SKILL.md

new-deck is a skill for Claude Code from alohays/paper2pr. It costs 56 tokens per session (2,836 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided starting point for creating a slide deck for a paper review, invited talk or course lecture. It asks about the audience and presentation, then creates the initial deck files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to begin a new deck, choose its genre and audience level, and create a consistent starting structure.
Why use it?
It records the presentation’s purpose and audience before authoring, giving later tools shared information to follow.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions AGENTS.md.

This is alohays/paper2pr's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on paper2pr itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything paper2pr configures →

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python3 scripts/new_deck.py \.

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to alohays/paper2pr. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alohays/paper2pr/main/.claude/skills/new-deck/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alohays/paper2pr

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,836 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00056 $0.02836
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.01134
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00567
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00284

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 55fa197afeca, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

new-deck 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 1mo 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.

.claude/skills/new-deck/SKILL.md · 222 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 222 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Start a new deck

Decks in this repo are graded against a profile, and the profile only knows what to enforce if someone writes down who is listening and for how long. Before this skill existed those premises lived in the presenter's head, leaked into the deck as inconsistencies, and were re-derived from scratch every time anyone touched it. Ask once, write it down, and every downstream tool reads it from the same place.

Two halves, deliberately: you run the interview, scripts/new_deck.py writes the files. Ask the questions however the conversation needs them asked. The scaffold stays byte-identical for the same answers.

1. Ask

Use AskUserQuestion — this is a set of judgment calls, not a form. Batch related ones; do not ask about anything the user already told you. Lead with a recommendation when there is an obvious default.

Genre — papers, talks, or lectures. Run python3 scripts/deckpath.py --genres for the live list. This picks the directory and, unless overridden, the profile.

Audience prior knowledge — none, practitioner, or expert. The single most consequential answer: it sets which profile's bullet budget and checks apply (and it is what the review agents read the deck against); guessing practitioner for a room of first-years produces a deck that scores well and lands badly. The acronym-expansion check is off for every shipped profile (D17: the matcher cannot tell a model name from a term), so spelling terms out is judgment, not a gate.

Duration in minutes, and roughly how many people. Then two optional subtractions: video_min (minutes of clips that play without narration) and qa_min (minutes reserved for questions). deckprofile.py derives speaking_min = duration_min - video_min - qa_min, and that is what the speaker-notes budget runs on; a 60-minute lecture with 10 minutes of video is a 50-minute script, not a 60-minute one. Omit both when the deck is all talk.

Where it sits in a series - for a lecture, which course series and which session. Run python3 scripts/series_assets.py --list for the series files (Quarto/lectures/_series/<course>.yml, one per course; dgist-2026f is the DGIST HSS118 term, Seminar for Comprehensive Competency Cultivation). When the deck is a session of one:

Read the full file on GitHub · 222 lines

Changes

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.

  1. 1mo ago Changed 55fa197afeca
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +5 lines 00ed4383bbe9
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 217 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 849901b814d3

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new-deck is a skill published in the GitHub repository alohays/paper2pr (6 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 2,836 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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