Paper Slide Deck

Turns academic papers and markdown into standalone slide deck images, the kind you'd share on Twitter or send async to your team. It auto-detects figures from PDFs, generates a structured outline, then renders each slide as an image using Gemini's API. You get 17 visual styles ranging from academic-paper for conference talks to sketch-notes for tutorials to chalkboard for educational content. It even auto-picks the style based on keywords in your content. The layout system is surprisingly detailed with options like hub-spoke diagrams, comparison matrices, and equation-focus slides. Best for generating decks meant to be read rather than presented live, which honestly covers most slide decks these days anyway.

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last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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Install

$ npx -y skills add luwill/research-skills --skill paper-slide-deck --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

Paper Slide Deck Generator

Transform any content — an article, a topic, or a paper — into stylized, shareable slide images; for PDF papers, figures are detected and extracted from the source. Generated slides are AI images that garble math and numbers, so every slide recorded as generated (generated.json, written by generate-slides.py or proofread.ts --record) must carry a proofread disposition before the merge scripts accept the deck (Step 6.5).

Usage

/paper-slide-deck path/to/paper.pdf
/paper-slide-deck path/to/paper.pdf --style academic-paper
/paper-slide-deck path/to/content.md --style sketch-notes
/paper-slide-deck path/to/content.md --audience executives
/paper-slide-deck path/to/content.md --lang zh
/paper-slide-deck path/to/content.md --slides 10
/paper-slide-deck path/to/content.md --outline-only
/paper-slide-deck  # Then paste content