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Paper to PowerPoint Deck

Turns a scientific paper into a Chinese academic PPTX with source figures and speaker notes

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Repository
Yuan1z0825/nature-skills
Stars
51,827
Licence
Apache-2.0
Files
15 files

What it does

Once installed, the agent can take a scientific paper or reading notes and build a real PowerPoint (.pptx) deck for a lab meeting, literature report, or defense, in Chinese by default. It first classifies the paper type (for example discovery, clinical, or methods), follows a matching presentation storyline, reuses figures from the paper, adds speaker notes, and keeps technical terms consistent across slides. It can also edit an existing deck without rebuilding it, and it runs a quality-check script on the finished file.

Great for

  • Graduate students preparing lab meeting (组会) or journal club slides from a paper
  • Researchers preparing a conference talk or thesis defense from their own or others' papers
  • Anyone who wants a first-draft Chinese academic deck that they will then review and edit

Skip it if

  • Final submission-ready slides without human review: the skill itself warns that its audit does not replace visual review of rendered slides, and facts or figure details must be checked against the paper
  • Situations where the source paper is unavailable or confidential, since the skill relies on the paper content provided to it
  • Non-academic presentations: the skill is tailored to scientific paper structure and Chinese academic conventions

Try asking

  • “Make a 15-slide Chinese lab meeting deck from this PDF of my paper, with speaker notes”
  • “Improve the figures and layout of the deck I already made, without changing the story”
  • “Turn these reading notes on a clinical trial into a literature report presentation”
  • “Add a slide on the methods section and re-run the final PPTX audit”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Paper to PowerPoint DeckInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 15 original files, the Apache-2.0 licence and an attribution note.

    nature-paper2ppt.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip nature-paper2ppt.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip nature-paper2ppt.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 the full paper (PDF or text) so figures and numbers can be traced back to the source
  • Check every number, figure caption, and terminology choice on the rendered slides before presenting
  • Ask for a targeted edit to an existing deck instead of a full rebuild to save time and keep the story stable

What's inside

  • agents/openai.yaml
  • manifest.yaml
  • README_EN.md
  • README.md
  • references/design-and-layout.md
  • references/figure-assets.md
  • references/self-review.md
  • scripts/audit_pptx_quality.py
  • SKILL.md
  • static/core/output-and-quality.md
  • static/core/principles.md
  • static/core/toolchain.md
  • static/core/workflow.md
  • static/fragments/paper_type/clinical.md
  • static/fragments/paper_type/discovery.md

Redistributed unmodified from Yuan1z0825/nature-skills 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.