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This skill compiles LaTeX documents using a library of templates for resumes, academic papers, theses, reports, posters, cheat sheets, and more. It helps researchers, job seekers, business professionals, and conference presenters create professional PDFs with accurate bibliographies, data charts, and watermarks. Beyond creation, it converts PDFs back to editable LaTeX, runs mail merge from CSV data, and highlights version changes with latexdiff.
WHO IT'S FOR
Academic Researchers
write and format papers, theses, and dissertations
Job Seekers and Career Professionals
create ATS-optimized resumes, CVs, and cover letters
STEM Students and Educators
prepare homework, lab reports, exams, and lecture notes
Business and Administrative Professionals
generate reports, invoices, letters, and fillable PDF forms
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.
Follow the documented setup, then try a first task.
Claude Code user skill
Installs: Installs the complete LaTeX Document Skill folder into the current user's Claude Code skills directory. · Claude Code
Before you start
A local repository directory named `latex-document`.
For the documented functionality, the listed system dependencies are TeX Live, Poppler, ImageMagick, Pandoc, Python 3 with matplotlib, numpy, and pandas, and qpdf.
Run from: Parent directory containing the local `latex-document` repository folder
In a terminal, copy the complete `latex-document` repository folder into the current user's Claude Code skills directory.
Use the latex-document-skill to compile the LaTeX source file at <path-to-document.tex> into a PDF with PNG previews. Report any compilation errors and identify the output files. Replace <path-to-document.tex> with the path to my source file.
Use the latex-document-skill to convert <path-to-input-document> from Markdown, DOCX, or HTML into LaTeX and compile it as a PDF with PNG previews. Replace <path-to-input-document> with my source document path.
Use the latex-document-skill to create a short LaTeX report from <path-to-data.csv> containing one appropriate chart and a formatted table, then compile it to PDF with PNG previews. Replace <path-to-data.csv> with my CSV file path.