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Noi1r/beamer-skill

Turns research papers into presentations that teach as they show.
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TL;DR

This skill guides the full lifecycle of academic Beamer slide decks: drafting from paper PDFs or Markdown, compiling with XeLaTeX, reviewing for pedagogical clarity and visual polish, and extracting figures for reuse. It serves researchers, graduate students, and lecturers who need mathematically precise, well-structured presentations without managing every LaTeX detail themselves.

WHO IT'S FOR
Academic Researchers and Professors
preparing conference presentations and lectures
Graduate Students
preparing thesis defenses and journal club presentations
AI-Assisted Presentation Creators
generating Beamer slides from papers or markdown
LaTeX Power Users
building Beamer presentations with quality checks
Repository contents

1 skill file

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.

Use this skill

Follow the documented setup, then try a first task.

I’m using

Claude Code on macOS

Installs: Complete Beamer skill directory · Claude Code

Before you start
  • Claude Code

Platform: macOS

  1. In a terminal, install the required full TeX distribution with XeLaTeX.

    brew install --cask mactex
  2. In a terminal, clone the repository first.

    git clone https://github.com/Noi1r/beamer-skill.git
  3. In a terminal, create the Claude Code skills folder and copy the repository's beamer skill directory into it.

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
    cp -r beamer-skill/beamer ~/.claude/skills/
  4. Restart Claude Code so the skill is detected.

beamer/SKILL.md · Checked Sep 18, 2026README.md · Checked Sep 18, 2026

Give it something to do.

Author’s example

Create a Beamer presentation from a paper

Uses beamer

  • Replace `/path/to/paper.pdf` with the path to the source paper PDF.
  • For Claude Code paper analysis, pdf-mcp is recommended; install it separately if that workflow requires direct large-PDF reading.
Help me create a beamer presentation based on this paper: /path/to/paper.pdf
beamer/SKILL.md · Checked Sep 18, 2026README.md · Checked Sep 18, 2026
Suggested first task

Compile a Beamer slide deck

Uses beamer

  • Replace `/path/to/slides.tex` with the path to the Beamer source file.
  • A full TeX distribution with XeLaTeX must be installed.
Using the beamer skill, compile my slides: /path/to/slides.tex
beamer/SKILL.md · Checked Sep 18, 2026README.md · Checked Sep 18, 2026
Suggested first task

Proofread a Beamer slide deck

Uses beamer

  • Replace `/path/to/slides.tex` with the path to the Beamer source file.
Using the beamer skill, proofread /path/to/slides.tex
beamer/SKILL.md · Checked Sep 18, 2026README.md · Checked Sep 18, 2026