Beamer Skill

Beamer Skill

An AI coding assistant skill for creating, compiling, reviewing, and polishing academic **Beamer LaTeX** presentations.

Supports **Claude Code**, **OpenAI Codex CLI**, **Google Antigravity**, and **VS Code** AI extensions (Copilot, Cline, Cursor).

Full lifecycle: **create → compile → review → polish → verify.**

Features

Action	Description
create [topic]	Collaborative, iterative lecture creation with phase gates (material analysis → needs interview → structure plan → draft → quality loop)
compile [file]	3-pass XeLaTeX + bibtex with post-compile diagnostics
review [file]	Read-only proofreading report (grammar, typos, overflow, consistency, academic quality)
audit [file]	Visual layout audit (overflow, fonts, boxes, spacing)
pedagogy [file]	Holistic pedagogical review with 13 validation patterns
tikz [file]	TikZ diagram review and SVG extraction
excellence [file]	Comprehensive multi-dimensional quality review
devils-advocate [file]	Challenge slide design with pedagogical questions
visual-check [file]	PDF-based visual verification of compiled slides
validate [file]	Structural validation against skill constraints
extract-figures [pdf]	Extract figures from paper PDFs for direct inclusion in slides

Highlights

• Quality scoring system — automated rubric (start at 100, deduct per issue) with Excellent/Good/Needs Work/Poor thresholds
• No overlays — no \pause, \onslide, \only. Uses multiple slides and color emphasis instead
• Content density guards — upper bounds (7 bullets, 2 equations, 5 symbols per slide) and lower bounds (every slide earns its place)
• Box overflow detection — Beamer suppresses overflow warnings inside blocks; the skill catches them via visual audit
• Motivation before formalism — every concept starts with "Why?" before "What?"
• TikZ precision — mathematical accuracy enforced via