research-slide-design

research-slide-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hanhuark/mechanical-engineering-research-skill. It costs 48 tokens per session (403 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for designing technical talks, conference slides, seminars, defenses, and posters. It organizes one main claim or transition per slide, uses diagrams and figures where useful, and adds speaker notes that explain evidence and flow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to outline research presentations, arrange figures, plan animations or videos, create posters, and write speaker notes.
Why use it?
It prevents dense slides from forcing the audience to read long explanations while listening. It also makes the progression of the presentation and the role of each visual clearer.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the thermal-fluid-research-workflow plugin — 9 skills, 18 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to outline research presentations, arrange figures, plan animations or videos, create posters, and write speaker notes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hanhuark/mechanical-engineering-research-skill/research-slide-design
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 hanhuark/mechanical-engineering-research-skill --skill research-slide-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hanhuark/mechanical-engineering-research-skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install thermal-fluid-research-workflow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 18 commands.

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README.md
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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 403 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 $0.00048 $0.00403
Opus 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00161
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00081
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00040

Measured 1mo ago against content hash d2e35dc3f6e9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-slide-design 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.

skills/research-slide-design/SKILL.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

Research Slide Design

Purpose

Make technical presentations easy to follow and visually calm. A listener should be able to anticipate the reason for slide N+1 from slide N, while the presenter supplies the interpretation that the slide does not repeat.

Route To Reference

Read references/presentation-slides.md before building an outline, editing slides, creating speaker notes, designing a poster, or planning animations and videos.

Design Rules

  • Establish one claim, question, or transition per slide; use section transitions when the logic changes.
  • Treat every visual group as having its own rectangle of space. Maintain clear separation between title, figure, annotation, legend, takeaway, and navigation elements.
  • Prefer figures, diagrams, sequences, video, and purposeful animation over paragraphs. Keep only information that cannot be conveyed clearly by the visual.
  • Use display text for the take-home message, a necessary qualifier, a key number, or labels required to decode the figure.
  • Speaker notes should explain the slide's evidence and transition, not recite its visible text.

Research Figure Handling

Use source figures only after checking readability at presentation size. Simplify legends, emphasize the comparison relevant to the claim, and label data provenance. Do not crop away axes, units, uncertainty, or conditions that affect interpretation.

For a publication schematic, graphical abstract, facility, workflow, or system diagram, use research-schematic-design to preserve editable geometry and verify the physical meaning of every label and arrow.

Final Check

Review the slide sequence in presentation mode. Check that text fits, graphics are legible at distance, no objects overlap, animations clarify rather than distract, and a viewer can recover the narrative from slide titles and visual claims alone.

Files

What ships with it

2 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.

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 First seen · 33 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A d2e35dc3f6e9

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research-slide-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository hanhuark/mechanical-engineering-research-skill (22 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 403 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 2026-09-10.

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