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 Nero1688/claude-academic-skills --skill academic-pptxgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Nero1688/claude-academic-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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/nero1688/claude-academic-skills/academic-pptx)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nero1688/claude-academic-skills/academic-pptx"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nero1688/claude-academic-skills/academic-pptx/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nero1688/claude-academic-skills/academic-pptx"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nero1688/claude-academic-skills/academic-pptx.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00164 | $0.01951 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00082 | $0.00975 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00033 | $0.00390 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00016 | $0.00195 |
Grade A, and why
academic-pptx 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 6d 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.
This is a copy
100% identical to academic-pptx — 23 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 176 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Academic Presentations Skill
How This Skill Works
This skill has two layers:
- This file — governs content, argument structure, and design standards for academic presentations. Read it fully before planning any slides.
- PPTX skill — governs the technical implementation (creating, editing, and QA-ing the .pptx file). Read it too.
Always read both before writing any code or creating any files.
Quick Reference
| Task | Guide |
|---|---|
| Content planning, argument structure, slide-by-slide rules | content_guidelines.md |
| Per-slide-type patterns (title, methods, results, etc.) | slide_patterns.md |
| Technical creation from scratch | PPTX skill → pptxgenjs.md |
| Technical editing of an existing file | PPTX skill → editing.md |
Step 1: Identify Presentation Type
Before planning a single slide, determine which mode applies.
Structured Argument (default for academic work)
Use for: conference papers, seminar talks, thesis defenses, dissertation chapters, grant briefings, internal lab presentations, policy briefings, consulting-style research deliverables.
Priority order: argument structure → data → layout → aesthetics.
Follow content_guidelines.md in full.
Visual / Narrative
Use for: public engagement talks, science communication to non-specialist audiences, funding pitches to lay panels, event keynotes.
Follow the PPTX skill's design-forward guidelines. Argument structure still matters, but visual storytelling and emotional engagement take priority.
When in doubt
Default to Structured Argument. If the user mentions a paper, a study, a dataset, a thesis, a grant, or a conference, they almost certainly want structured argument mode.
Step 2: Plan the Deck Before Creating Any Slides
Produce a slide-by-slide outline (title, action title, exhibit type) and confirm with the user if the deck is more than 10 slides or if the content is complex. Do not start building until the outline is agreed.
What ships with it
3 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.
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.
- 6d ago Changed · +23 lines d32465807c13
- 11d ago First seen · 153 lines · 164 tokens per session scan A c321851cd9d9
academic-pptx is a skill published in the GitHub repository Nero1688/claude-academic-skills (6 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 164 tokens to every session and 1,951 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to academic-pptx, differing in 23 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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