LaTeX Handouts

LaTeX Handouts is a skill for Claude Code from rhuss/cc-slidev. It costs 63 tokens per session (4,936 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for creating LaTeX handouts, which are formatted documents that can be exported as PDFs. It combines slide images, presenter notes, explanations, technical details, and further reading.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create comprehensive handouts or PDF documents from Slidev presentations.
Why use it?
It turns presentation material into a printable reference document, including a simpler text-only version when some formatting or image tools are unavailable.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the slidev plugin — 8 skills, 18 commands, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to create comprehensive handouts or PDF documents from Slidev presentations.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add rhuss/cc-slidev
Claude Code
/plugin install slidev

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install slidev, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 18 commands, 2 agents.

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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,936 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 $0.00063 $0.04936
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.02468
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00987
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00494

Measured 11d ago against content hash 81c526344f4c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

LaTeX Handouts 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 11d 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.

slidev/skills/latex-handouts/SKILL.md · 837 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 837 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

LaTeX Handouts

LaTeX provides professional typesetting for presentation handouts that combine slide images, presenter notes, and supplementary research into comprehensive reference documents.

Dependency Checking

Before generating handouts, check dependencies using:

${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/check-handout-deps.sh

Exit codes:

  • 0: All dependencies available (full handout with images and rich formatting)
  • 1: pdflatex missing (BLOCKER - cannot generate handout)
  • 2: LaTeX packages missing (use basic formatting)
  • 3: Playwright missing (text-only handout)

Graceful Degradation Strategies

When LaTeX packages unavailable (exit code 2):

  • Skip \usepackage{tcolorbox} and \usepackage{enumitem} in preamble
  • Use standard LaTeX boxes instead of tcolorbox
  • Use default enumerate/itemize instead of enumitem
  • Result: Basic but functional handout

When Playwright unavailable (exit code 3):

  • Skip slide PNG export entirely
  • Omit \begin{figure}...\end{figure} blocks for slide images
  • Still include all prose paragraphs (Overview, Key Considerations, Technical Details)
  • Still include all Further Reading links
  • Result: Text-only reference document (still valuable)

When pdflatex unavailable (exit code 1):

  • Cannot generate PDF handout
  • Offer to create .tex file for user to compile later
  • Provide installation instructions

Handout Writing Principles

Critical: Handouts should be comprehensive standalone documents, not just copies of slides.

Content Requirements

DO:

  • Write in complete prose paragraphs (2-4 sentences minimum)
  • Expand on slide content - explain concepts in detail
  • Add context - WHY things matter, HOW they work
  • Include researched URLs - 3-5 quality resources per section
  • Provide examples - real-world applications and use cases
  • Explain trade-offs - discuss implications and alternatives
  • Make it standalone - reader understands without attending presentation

DON'T:

  • Copy bullet points from slides verbatim
  • Write generic descriptions
  • Use slide content as handout content
  • Skip research for further reading
  • Assume reader attended presentation

Read the full file on GitHub · 837 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. 11d ago First seen · 837 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 81c526344f4c

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LaTeX Handouts is a skill published in the GitHub repository rhuss/cc-slidev (51 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 4,936 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-30.

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