What is slides.fix_rendered_pdf?

A slide-rendering check for SMD lecture files that produces a PDF and compares its pages with the source slide count.

It is for checking slide layout, adjusting content so each slide fits one page, and verifying the final page count.

It finds slides that spill onto extra pages or otherwise render incorrectly before the deck is used.

slides.fix_rendered_pdf — Skill for Claude Code by gpsaggese/helpers

Install

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.

Any agent

npx skills add gpsaggese/helpers --skill slides.fix_rendered_pdf

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gpsaggese/helpers

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 15 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 316 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00015	$0.00316
Opus 5.5	$0.00006	$0.00126
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00003	$0.00063
Haiku 4.5	$0.00002	$0.00032

Measured yesterday against content hash 8d77deb9bd7c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

slides.fix_rendered_pdf 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 yesterday.

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.fix_rendered_pdf/SKILL.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

Goal

Make sure that the PDF rendering of a slide .smd file is well formed

Inputs

<SMD_FILE>: lecture file to check
- E.g., msml610/lectures_source/Lesson01.4-Brief_History_of_AI.smd

Workflow

Render the Slides

Run:

> gen_slides.py <SMD_FILE> -- --toc_type=remove_headers

Read the generated PDF <PDF_FILE>
- E.g., msml610/lectures_pdf.tmp/Lesson01.4-Brief_History_of_AI.pdf

Check the Slide Count

Check that the slide count in <SMD_FILE>:
```
> grep "^* " <SMD_FILE> | wc -l
```
equals the PDF page count, not counting the References page
If the counts differ, some slides * <TITLE> render in more than one PDF page
Then adjust the picture sizes and the text, so each slide fits exactly in one page

Conventions

Follow the role in .claude/skills/role.ai_researcher.md
Read .claude/skills/slides.rules.md

Verification

The number of slides in <SMD_FILE> is the same as in <PDF_FILE>

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.

yesterday First seen · 38 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 8d77deb9bd7c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

slides.fix_rendered_pdf is a skill published in the GitHub repository gpsaggese/helpers (158 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 316 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-11-06.

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