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Beamer Academic automates the transition from a research paper to a structured presentation. It extracts core material from PDF, Word, or LaTeX sources to generate outlines and content for thesis defenses, proposals, and conference talks.
The skill utilizes a layout library of 13 professional page types and five color schemes, allowing researchers to move from a raw manuscript to compiled LaTeX slides through an interactive editing loop.
WHO IT'S FOR
Graduate students
generate thesis defense slides from papers
Academic researchers
create conference talk presentations from publications
LaTeX users
automate Beamer slide generation via AI
AI automation builders
integrate academic slide pipelines into AI workflows
Compatible AgentsThe repository documents support for these agents. The skills may also work with other agents that can load SKILL.md files, but they may need some setup or small changes.
Path to a thesis file in .tex, .docx, or .pdf format
University, presenter name, advisor, and preferred color when the skill requests them
Use the beamer-academic skill to make my defense slides from [THESIS_FILE]. Replace [THESIS_FILE] with the path to my .tex, .docx, or .pdf thesis in the current working directory. Prefer the .tex or .docx source when available, ask me which file to use if there are multiple candidates, and begin with the skill's normal clarification and outline-confirmation workflow.
Claude
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