slides-polish

slides-polish is a skill for Claude Code from wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep. It costs 136 tokens per session (7,566 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A final review and layout-fixing workflow for academic presentation slides in PowerPoint or Beamer, a LaTeX-based slide system. It checks each page and applies targeted typography and spacing corrections.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to adjust font sizes, text layout, callout styling, spacing, and projector readability after a slide deck has been generated.
Why use it?
It improves readability and visual balance in an existing deck without changing its research content. It is intended for a final pass when the slides are mostly complete.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to adjust font sizes, text layout, callout styling, spacing, and projector readability after a slide deck has been generated.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wanshuiyin/auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep/slides-polish
About the project

ARIS is a collection of Markdown-based skills that define a workflow for autonomous machine-learning research, including idea discovery, experiment automation, and review loops. Researchers and AI coding agents use it across tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and OpenClaw without depending on a single framework. The catalogue entries are ARIS workflow skills and agents.

wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep · 15,970 stars · on GitHub

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 wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep --skill slides-polish
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 136 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,566 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
  • Snyk pass 7 Sept 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00136 $0.07566
Opus 5 $0.00068 $0.03783
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.01513
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00757

Measured 4d ago against content hash 7eb6782a599d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

slides-polish 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 4d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/skills-codex/slides-polish/SKILL.md · 564 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 564 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Slides Polish: Per-Page Codex Review + Targeted Layout Fixes

Polish a generated slide deck — Beamer (.tex + .pdf) and/or PPTX — by running per-page Codex review against a reference visual and applying surgical fixes (font scaling, text-frame resize, callout-box style, em-dash spacing, anonymity placeholders, Chinese-font hints, italic style leaks) until each slide reads at the same visual weight as the reference.

Polish: $ARGUMENTS

What This Skill Is — and Is NOT

This skill polishes layout and typography only. It is the post-generation visual pass for an existing deck.

Hard scope rules (load-bearing — see Hard Invariants):

  • It does not rewrite content, claims, numbers, citations, URLs, author names, affiliations, or experiment results.
  • It does not add, remove, or reorder slides unless the user explicitly asks (e.g., — add-slide / — drop-slide flags).
  • It does not generate outlines, speaker scripts, or new Beamer/PPTX from paper source. That is /paper-slides's job.
  • It does not change figures or equations content.

If you do not yet have a deck, run /paper-slides first. If you want to change content, go back to /paper-slides Phases 1-2 (or rewrite the outline manually) — do not run /slides-polish for that.

Constants

  • REVIEWER_MODEL = gpt-6-astra — Codex MCP model for per-page review. xhigh reasoning is non-negotiable (see ../shared-references/effort-contract.md). If the account has no gpt-6-astra access, follow the capability fallback chain in ../shared-references/reviewer-routing.md (gpt-5.5+xhigh; gpt-5.4 only as an explicit user override).
  • REVIEWER_REASONING = xhigh — Hard invariant; the effort knob does not change this.
  • CONTEXT_POLICY = fresh — Each per-page review uses a fresh Codex reviewer call (spawn_agent, never send_input). See ../shared-references/reviewer-independence.md. This prevents the reviewer from anchoring on prior fixes.
  • REFERENCE_VISUAL — Path to a PDF the user wants the polished deck to align with in visual weight (typography proportion, color discipline, callout density). Required input. If polishing PPTX only, the Beamer compile of the same talk is the ideal reference. If no reference exists yet, ask the user; do not silently default to "Why-RF" or any preset.
  • STYLE_PRESET = generic — Default style anchor. Other options: why-rf (academic-minimalist, derived from a 2025 academic talk), neurips, icml, iclr, cvpr. Presets influence color discipline + element library; the reference PDF is the visual ground truth, not the preset.
  • PPTX_SCALE_HINT = 1.6× — Heuristic multiplier from Beamer point sizes to PPTX point sizes for matched visual weight on 13.33"×7.5" PowerPoint at 16:9. Range 1.5-1.8×. The actual scale is always validated by visual review, never blindly applied.
  • INTERACTIVE = false — When false, applies the recommended fix automatically and continues to the next slide. When true (— interactive), pauses for user confirmation before each fix.
  • OUTPUT_VERSIONING = on — Output is a versioned file named <input-stem>_polished.<ext> (or _polished_v2, _v3, …). Snapshot of the input is preserved as <input-stem>_pre_polish.<ext>. The original is never overwritten. All edit operations target the _polished working copy.

Read the full file on GitHub · 564 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. 4d ago Changed 7eb6782a599d
  2. 8d ago First seen · 564 lines · 136 tokens per session scan A 6c61a3d98859

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slides-polish is a skill published in the GitHub repository wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep (15,970 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 136 tokens to every session and 7,566 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-09-03.

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