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Paper To Podium — Development skill for Claude Code

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Turn an academic paper into a talk you can actually deliver: timed talk script, distilled slides, print-ready podium notes.

How to install Paper To Podium

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open mimaowang/paper-to-podium and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Paper To Podium does

Turn an academic paper into a talk you can actually deliver: timed talk script, distilled slides, print-ready podium notes. An agent skill (Claude Code / Kimi Code).

Alternatives in Development

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Mono Color Skill — One-ink editorial print image skill — warm paper, halftone photography, active negative space, and restrained 3k ★

README

paper-to-podium

**Turn an academic paper into a talk you can actually deliver.** You give it a paper and a time budget; it gives you back three things: a spoken script timed to the minute, slides distilled from that script, and a print-ready podium script with page-turn cues. Built for journal clubs, course presentations, conference talks, and group meetings — for your own paper or someone else's.

[English](#paper-to-podium) | [中文](#paper-to-podium-1)

The one idea behind it

**The script is the talk. The slides are an excerpt of the script — never the other way around.**

Agents (and people) instinctively start with slides, which produces dense bullet pages that get read aloud while the audience reads ahead. paper-to-podium reverses the dependency: write what you will *say* first, sized to your minutes and your speaking pace, then extract the few sentences and figures worth putting on screen. The result is a talk, not a document with a person attached.

Quick start

Install — copy the skill into your agent's user skills directory:

cp -r paper-to-podium ~/.claude/skills/    # Claude Code
cp -r paper-to-podium ~/.agents/skills/    # Kimi Code

Use — just ask naturally, e.g.:

"I need to present this paper in class next week, 30 minutes including Q&A. Help me prepare the talk script and slides."

The skill triggers on requests like this (also 文献汇报 / 课堂展示 / 组会汇报 / 讲稿). It will ask about occasion, audience, and your speaking pace, then run the full pipeline below.

What you get

A talk script written to a time budget — minutes × speaking rate = target length (25 min of measured Chinese ≈ 5,000 characters; 12 min of conference English ≈ 1,400 words), re-checked after every edit with a bundled tool. Plain spoken language, with explicit guardrails against the "AI flavor" failure mode (rhetorical-question openers, manufactured suspense) — including real before/after examples.
Slides designed for the back row — one