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academic-slides
Use this skill for creating or refining an academic slide deck and the talk built around it: structuring a conference talk, thesis defense, lab meeting, or paper-to-slides deck; deciding the narrative arc and slide breakdown; improving slide design and visual hierarchy; planning rehearsal, timing, Q&A, and backup slides; or generating the .pptx. Reach for it when the user is shaping the presentation itself. Do not use for writing the paper, producing standalone speaker notes/scripts/transcripts, making posters, creating isolated figures/charts outside a slide deck, or building non-academic pre
Why this score
This repo hosts 10 skills, so its 481 stars are split between them (about 48 each) for scoring.
Popularity score: 56/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank
Security
Scanned Oct 21, 2026 at commit 9a9f8cfb3a7f, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.
What its code does:
- Uses dependencies without a pinned version A later version of a dependency could change what runs.requirements.txt:1 and 1 more
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Alternatives
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| Name | Score | Stars | Context | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| This oneacademic-slides EvoScientist/EvoSkills · Skill | 56 | ★ 481 | ≈154 always | 1mo ago |
| academic-pptx Gabberflast/academic-pptx-skill · Skill Same job: slides & presentations | 67 | ★ 1.2k | ≈154 always | 4mo ago |
| create-slide open-slide/open-slide · Skill Same job: slides & presentations | 75 | ★ 9.3k | ≈114 always | 16d ago |
| office-academic-skill zLanqing/codex-claude-academic-skills · Skill Same job: research & papers | 65 | ★ 5.1k | ≈142 always | 6mo ago |
| slide-figures minorun365/minorun-marp-skill · Skill Same job: slides & presentations | 63 | ★ 409 | ≈30 always | 1mo ago |
| google-slides gemini-cli-extensions/workspace · Skill Same job: slides & presentations | 69 | ★ 647 | ≈23 always | 16d ago |