quarto-presentations

quarto-presentations is a skill for Codex from uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills. It costs 58 tokens per session (1,873 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for creating and editing Quarto slide decks, which are presentation files that can be rendered into web slides or PDFs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for .qmd slides, reveal.js layouts, templates, speaker notes, figures, previews, and PDF exports.
Why use it?
It keeps scientific and technical presentations reproducible in text files and helps check their layout during export.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it for .qmd slides, reveal.js layouts, templates, speaker notes, figures, previews, and PDF exports.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills/quarto-presentations
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 uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills --skill quarto-presentations
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,873 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Rogue Agent · line 57
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00058 $0.01873
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00937
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00375
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00187

Measured 9d ago against content hash c48d0d976047, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

quarto-presentations 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/print_reveal_pdf_cdp.py, scripts/print_reveal_pdf_playwright.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/quarto-presentations/SKILL.md · 173 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 173 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Quarto Presentations

Scope

  • Own the presentation mechanics: Quarto .qmd structure, reveal.js format, templates, rendering, PDF export, figures, speaker notes, and layout checks.
  • Use the current project's narrative, branding, and environment policy when present. Keep lab-specific names, paths, logos, colors, clusters, and personal workflow facts out of the shared skill.
  • Prefer text-based Quarto edits. Do not move the user to PowerPoint, Keynote, or Google Slides unless they ask.

Start Or Locate A Deck

  • If a deck already exists, edit the .qmd directly and preserve its local template, theme, and output conventions.
  • If starting a new deck, first look for a project-local or lab-local Quarto template. Use that when branding or site policy matters.
  • If no local template exists, copy this skill's assets/_template/ directory and replace the slide content:
cp -R /path/to/quarto-presentations/assets/_template ./my-talk
  • The bundled template includes a full-width bottom logo panel and placeholder logos under logos/. Replace those assets with local brand files, keeping the same relative paths or updating _logos.html.
  • Keep reusable branding in a local template. Do not hard-code one person's institution, name, logos, or cluster paths into a shared deck scaffold.
  • Avoid putting body content before the first slide heading; reveal.js can turn it into a blank first slide.

Build And Preview

  • Use the project's existing Quarto environment and command style. If none is documented, start with plain quarto.
  • Activate a conda/mamba Quarto env rather than calling its bin/quarto by absolute path. The conda-forge package resolves QUARTO_SHARE_PATH, QUARTO_DENO, and QUARTO_PANDOC from activation scripts; without them the launcher guesses its own share directory, guesses wrong, and reports cat: .../share/version: No such file or directory. That message means unactivated, not broken — do not reinstall on the strength of it:

Read the full file on GitHub · 173 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. 9d ago First seen · 173 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A c48d0d976047

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quarto-presentations is a skill published in the GitHub repository uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills (17 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 1,873 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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