slides.add_visuals

slides.add_visuals is a skill for Claude Code from causify-ai/helpers. It costs 8 tokens per session (864 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A slide-planning skill that suggests diagrams, tables, images, screenshots, and other visuals for slides that lack them. It asks for approval before making changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to propose and then add visual elements to Markdown lecture slides.
Why use it?
It helps turn text-heavy technical slides into material that is easier to understand visually while preserving existing content.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter; reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit Use it to propose and then add visual elements to Markdown lecture slides.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/causify-ai/helpers/slides.add_visuals
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add causify-ai/helpers --skill slides.add_visuals
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/causify-ai/helpers

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 8 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 864 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 3
    Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.
    Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00008 $0.00864
Opus 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00346
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00002 $0.00173
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00086

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 9ecf9c7683f2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

slides.add_visuals 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/slides.add_visuals/SKILL.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Goal

  • Given a markdown file with slides or slides from the user <FILE>, propose visuals (e.g., diagrams, pictures, tables) to make the slides more intuitive

Workflow

  • Read the file or the provided text
  • Read .claude/skills/slides.rules.md for the slides conventions and rules
  • Read .claude/skills/figure.rules.md to understand the rules for the visuals

Propose a Visual for Each Slide

  • If a slide doesn't contain a visual element, consider what can be used to illustrate the concepts visually
  • E.g., from ## Types of Illustrations in .claude/skills/figure.rules.md
    • Table
    • Mermaid graph
    • Graphviz diagram
    • TikZ diagram
    • Images
    • Website screenshots

Output Example

  • The output of the proposal can be like:
    Slide 1: "A Map of Machine Learning"
    - Current: Has mermaid mindmap (present)
    - Assessment: Excellent visual already present. Keep as-is.
    
    Slide 2: "Machine Learning Paradigms"
    - Proposed: Comparison table showing Paradigm name, Question asked, and Key characteristic
      - Format: Use styled-table for consistency
      - Shows supervised vs unsupervised vs RL vs active learning side-by-side
      - Helps learners see the contrasts quickly
    
    Slide 3: "Machine Learning Theory"
    - Current: Text-only explanation of 4 theoretical foundations
    - Proposed: Graphviz diagram showing theoretical frameworks
      - Show how VC theory, Bias-variance decomposition, MDL, and Bayesian approach relate
      - Color by category: theoretical foundations
      - Add connections showing dependencies/relationships
    
    Slide 4: "Machine Learning Models"
    - Current: Text-only list of model variants
    - Proposed: Taxonomy diagram (Graphviz or TikZ)
      - Organize models by key distinctions: parametric vs non-parametric, linear vs non-linear
      - Show example models in each category
      - Helps learners understand the model space structure
    
    Slide 5: "Machine Learning Techniques"
    - Current: Text-only list of pipeline stages
    - Proposed: ML Pipeline flowchart (Graphviz)
      - Show the stages: Input Processing -> Model Building -> Performance Evaluation -> Diagnostic -> Regularization -> Aggregation
      - Color stages by function (data preparation, model, evaluation, improvement)
      - Include key techniques under each stage
      - This is the most impactful addition for learning
    
    Slide 6: "Some machine Learning Adages"
    - Current: Collection of quotes with attributions
    - Assessment: Text-based content is appropriate here. No visual needed.
    
    | Slide | Change                         | Type          | Impact    |
    |-------|--------------------------------|---------------|-----------|
    | 1     | Keep existing                  | -             | Good      |
    | 2     | Add paradigm comparison table  | Table         | High      |
    | 3     | Add theory framework diagram   | Graphviz      | Medium    |
    | 4     | Add model taxonomy diagram     | Graphviz/TikZ | High      |
    | 5     | Add ML pipeline flowchart      | Graphviz      | Very High |
    | 6     | Keep as-is                     | -             | Good      |
    

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 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.

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slides.add_visuals is a skill published in the GitHub repository causify-ai/helpers (150 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 8 tokens to every session and 864 once invoked, about $0.0000 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 2026-09-03.

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