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Vellum Humanities Lecture Deck

Builds a calm, scholarly single-file HTML slide deck for academic research talks and reviews

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Repository
nexu-io/open-design
Stars
105,448
Licence
Apache-2.0
Files
3 files

What it does

This skill gives an AI agent a fixed visual template, a dark navy design with warm-yellow italic serif headings and a teal accent, for making a self-contained HTML presentation. Once installed, when you ask for an academic or research-style deck, the agent starts from the template's example file, replaces the placeholder text with your content, and keeps the original fonts, colours and decorative elements instead of inventing a new style. The sample topic is a humanities lecture on Renaissance perspective and early maps.

Great for

  • Academics or graduate students who want a quiet, scholarly-looking slide deck for a seminar or review
  • Policy or advisory teams who want a calm, low-energy visual style for a briefing
  • Designers who want a ready-made dark editorial template to adapt

Skip it if

  • Energetic, high-contrast marketing or product launch decks, because the style is intentionally low-tempo
  • Anyone expecting the skill to verify facts or sources; it only shapes layout and wording, so claims need human checking

Try asking

  • “Turn my notes on medieval trade routes into a 10-slide research deck in the Vellum style”
  • “Adapt the Vellum template to present my grant review findings with a decision slide at the end”
  • “Duplicate the content slides to fit my 15-minute seminar talk on perspective and cartography”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Vellum Humanities Lecture DeckInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 3 original files, the Apache-2.0 licence and an attribution note.

    html-ppt-zhangzara-vellum.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip html-ppt-zhangzara-vellum.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip html-ppt-zhangzara-vellum.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 3

    Ask for the task

    No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.

Get better results

  • Provide your real headlines, numbers and sources up front so the agent fills the template accurately rather than inventing content.
  • Ask the agent to keep the navigation script and decorative elements intact, as the instructions already require this.
  • Keep the LICENSE file and upstream MIT attribution when you copy or redistribute the template, as the skill notes require.

What's inside

  • example.html
  • SKILL.md
  • template.json

Redistributed unmodified from nexu-io/open-design under the Apache-2.0 licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.