enhancing-latex-lectures

enhancing-latex-lectures is a skill for Claude Code from shubham0704/claude-skills. It costs 64 tokens per session (2,020 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A helper for improving LaTeX lecture notes, which are documents written in a system commonly used for technical and mathematical typesetting. It studies teaching materials such as PDFs and adds diagrams, examples, and clearer explanations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to improve lectures, add visualizations from papers or PDFs, compare examples, and reshape explanations around concrete examples before formal theory.
Why use it?
It helps turn abstract technical ideas into material that is easier to understand and teach. It also gives a systematic way to compare and adopt useful teaching patterns from reference materials.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the TodoWrite tool.

Part of the enhancing-latex-lectures plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to improve lectures, add visualizations from papers or PDFs, compare examples, and reshape explanations around concrete examples before formal theory.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shubham0704/claude-skills/enhancing-latex-lectures
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 shubham0704/claude-skills --skill enhancing-latex-lectures
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shubham0704/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install enhancing-latex-lectures, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,020 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 $0.00064 $0.02020
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.01010
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00404
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00202

Measured 12d ago against content hash 03cd9abb25f6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

enhancing-latex-lectures 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 12d 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.

enhancing-latex-lectures/SKILL.md · 236 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 236 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Enhancing LaTeX Lectures with Pedagogical Excellence

This Skill helps you systematically enhance LaTeX lecture notes by analyzing exemplary pedagogical materials and incorporating their best practices—especially stunning visualizations, concrete-to-abstract progressions, and multiple perspectives on concepts.

When to Use This Skill

Invoke when the user:

  • Asks to "enhance lecture X with visualizations from [author/paper]"
  • Wants to "add [author]'s teaching approach" to materials
  • Requests "beautiful diagrams" or "stunning visualizations" from reference PDFs
  • Says "compare our examples vs [author]'s examples"
  • Wants to systematically improve multiple lectures

Core Methodology

Phase 1: Analyze Reference Material

  1. Read the reference PDF/paper carefully (use Read tool for PDFs)
  2. Identify stunning visualizations by page number:
    • 3-panel comparisons showing multiple perspectives
    • Spacetime heatmaps (state × time evolution)
    • Convergence plots with quantitative comparisons
    • Geometric interpretations (simplex diagrams, phase portraits)
    • Side-by-side method comparisons
  3. Extract pedagogical patterns:
    • Concrete examples before abstract theory
    • Quantitative validation (R² values, error metrics)
    • "Why this matters" insight boxes
    • Common pitfall warnings
  4. Note specific page numbers for attribution

Phase 2: Create Enhancement Plan

Create a structured enhancement plan with 4-6 additions:

## Enhancement Plan for Lecture X

**Enhancement 1: [Concept] Visualization**
- From [Author] Page X
- What: [3-panel diagram / heatmap / etc.]
- Why: [Highest conceptual impact / most stunning / etc.]
- Where: After line Y in section Z

**Enhancement 2: ...**
[Repeat for each enhancement]

Prioritization criteria:

  • HIGHEST conceptual impact (choose 1-2)
  • Most stunning visually (choose 1-2)
  • Concrete examples that ground abstract theory
  • Quantitative validation of claims

Phase 3: Implementation

Read the full file on GitHub · 236 lines

Files

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.

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. 12d ago First seen · 236 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 03cd9abb25f6

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enhancing-latex-lectures is a skill published in the GitHub repository shubham0704/claude-skills (1 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 2,020 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 2026-08-31.

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