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Academic PPTX Presentation Skill

Enforces argument structure and communication-first design rules for conference talks, thesis defenses, and research decks.

Docs & OfficeIntermediate★ 1,050⑂ 110AI score 9/10Last updated: Jul 14, 2026

What it does

  • Governs content and structure for academic presentations: conference papers, seminars, thesis defenses, grant briefings, lab meetings.
  • Requires an action title (a full sentence stating the takeaway) on every slide and applies the "ghost deck test" — titles read in sequence must tell the whole argument.
  • Imposes academic design standards: white background, one sans-serif face, max three colors (default navy 1F4E79), no decorative icons or stock art, body text ≥ 20 pt, ~40 words max per slide.
  • Uses a results-slide pattern (figure left, interpretive bullets right, one exhibit per slide) plus in-slide citations, a References slide, and conclusions as the final non-appendix slide, all verified by an academic QA checklist.
  • Delegates actual .pptx creation/editing to the companion pptx skill (pptxgenjs, markitdown, LibreOffice, Poppler).

Who it's for

  • Grad students, PhD candidates, and researchers preparing conference talks
  • Anyone building a dissertation defense deck for the first time
  • Faculty and PIs assembling grant briefings or lab meeting slides
  • Analysts presenting evidence-heavy research to evaluating audiences

Example uses

  1. "Make a 15-minute conference deck from my paper on X" — it drafts a slide-by-slide outline with action titles for your approval before building.
  2. "Build my dissertation defense deck" — narrows to one defensible claim, pushes the rest to an appendix, adds section dividers and a References slide.
  3. "Clean up this existing PPT to academic standards" — strips decoration, normalizes fonts and alignment, and runs the QA checklist for missing citations or a proper conclusions slide.

· · · Install guide · · ·

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  1. Download the ZIP with the button below.
  2. In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
  3. Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
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Copy the SKILL.m folder from the GitHub repo Gabberflast/academic-pptx-skill into my ~/.claude/skills/academic-pptx/.
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git clone https://github.com/Gabberflast/academic-pptx-skill.git ~/.claude/skills/academic-pptx

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open a terminal.
  2. Create the skills folder: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  3. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/Gabberflast/academic-pptx-skill.git ~/.claude/skills/academic-pptx
  4. Confirm SKILL.md, content_guidelines.md, and slide_patterns.md exist in that folder.
  5. Also install the companion pptx skill into ~/.claude/skills/, since this skill relies on it to write the actual file.
  6. Install dependencies: pip install "markitdown[pptx]", npm install -g pptxgenjs, plus LibreOffice (soffice) and Poppler (pdftoppm) for PDF/image QA.
  7. Restart Claude Code and try: "create conference slides for my paper."
  8. Review LICENSE.txt (proprietary license) before any commercial use.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT