Slidemate — AI skill for Claude Code
Free AI lecture slide explainer for Mac: an AI tutor (Claude or ChatGPT) that has read your whole lecture PDF, one-click slide → iPad (GoodNotes/Notability), and lecture recordings → notes for every s.
How to install Slidemate
This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no
exact command to give. Open Mattlo0546/slidemate and copy the folder into
~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.
What Slidemate does
Free AI lecture slide explainer for Mac: an AI tutor (Claude or ChatGPT) that has read your whole lecture PDF, one-click slide → iPad (GoodNotes/Notability), and lecture recordings → notes for every slide.
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README
SlideMate
**Study your lecture slides with an AI tutor that has read the whole deck.**
Explain any slide in context · Snip it to your iPad in one click · Turn the lecture into notes for every slide
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**SlideMate is a free, open-source Mac app that explains lecture slides with AI.** It works with your Claude or ChatGPT account.
Lecture PDFs are terse: a few bullets, a diagram, an equation. Pasting slides into a chatbot one at a time loses the thread. **SlideMate** is a PDF viewer for lecture decks with a tutor that has read every slide and the lecture itself (if you recorded it). Ask about the slide you're on, and the answer explains how it connects to the rest of the course.
It runs locally on your Mac and uses the AI you already pay for, either **Claude** (via Claude Code) or **ChatGPT** (via Codex). No API keys, no account, no server.
What it does
🧠 A tutor that knows the whole deck
Right-click → **Explain this slide** (or press E), or ask anything. Answers draw on the entire deck and on what your lecturer actually said. Slide references like "slide 4" are links: hover to preview, click to jump.
