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visual-audit

Perform adversarial visual audit of Quarto or Beamer slides checking for overflow, font consistency, box fatigue, and layout issues.

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Use visual-audit to perform an adversarial visual layout audit of [slide filename], checking every slide for overflow, font consistency, box fatigue, spacing, and layout issues; deliver slide-specific severity-ranked recommendations using the spacing-first principle.

Required inputs

  • [slide filename]

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name: visual-auditdescription: Perform adversarial visual audit of Quarto or Beamer slides checking for overflow, font consistency, box fatigue, and layout issues.argument-hint: "[QMD or TEX filename]"allowed-tools: ["Read", "Grep", "Glob", "Write", "Task"]

Visual Audit of Slide Deck

Perform a thorough visual layout audit of a slide deck.

Steps

  1. Read the slide file specified in $ARGUMENTS

  2. For Quarto (.qmd) files:

    • Render with quarto render Quarto/$ARGUMENTS
    • Open in browser to inspect each slide

  3. For Beamer (.tex) files:

    • Compile and check for overfull hbox warnings

  4. Audit every slide for:

    OVERFLOW: Content exceeding slide boundaries FONT CONSISTENCY: Inline font-size overrides, inconsistent sizes BOX FATIGUE: 2+ colored boxes on one slide, wrong box types SPACING: Missing negative margins, missing fig-align LAYOUT: Missing transitions, missing framing sentences, semantic colors

  5. Produce a report organized by slide with severity and recommendations

  6. Follow the spacing-first principle:

    1. Reduce vertical spacing with negative margins
    2. Consolidate lists
    3. Move displayed equations inline
    4. Reduce image/SVG size
    5. Last resort: font size reduction (never below 0.85em)