Is the Academic Pptx skill free?

Yes. The skill itself is free from Gabberflast/academic-pptx-skill. SkillProof publishes the install command and an independent test verdict at no cost.

What is the Academic Pptx SkillProof Score?

8.4/10 — installs cleanly 5/5, triggers reliably 5/5, output vs. baseline 7/10, docs & honesty 4/5.

How do I install Academic Pptx?

Copy the install command from this page, run it in your terminal, and restart Claude Code. Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ inside a project.

Can I use Academic Pptx with Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Codex or other AI tools?

The SKILL.md format is native to Claude (Claude Code, Desktop, claude.ai). The instructions inside adapt to other assistants: Cursor rules, GitHub Copilot instructions, Windsurf rules, Custom GPTs, AGENTS.md for OpenAI Codex, and GEMINI.md for Google Gemini CLI — our conversion guides cover each, and the free converter on the tools page does the wrapping for you.

Academic Pptx

Content and structure rules for academic slide decks, layered on the pptx skill

by Gabberflast · Gabberflast/academic-pptx-skill

Tested · Works

Install — copy the command Download source ↗

Test report

Verdict: Tested · Works
Score: 8.4/10
Tested: Jul 21, 2026
Environment: Claude Code 2.x (agent harness)
Upstream re-checked: Aug 10, 2026 · 0963891

Fetched the raw SKILL.md and both referenced files via the GitHub API; content_guidelines.md, slide_patterns.md, and LICENSE all return HTTP 200, and slide_patterns.md contains concrete PptxGenJS color/font/coordinate defaults. For OUTPUT I gave both a baseline and skill-followed deck outline for the same task ("slides for a conference paper on four-day work weeks and software output"): the baseline used topic-label titles (Introduction, Results, Conclusion, Thank You/Questions), while the skill body produced action-title sentences ("Merged-PR throughput held steady after the switch, -2% n.s."), an SCR spine with the research question by slide 3, one annotated exhibit per results slide, and a Conclusions+References ending with no "Thank You" slide — a ghost-deck test the baseline fails. Note a license contradiction: SKILL.md frontmatter says "Proprietary" while README and LICENSE both say MIT. No security smells found.

Scored on four weighted criteria — install, triggering, output vs. baseline, docs. How scoring works

Installs cleanly 5/5
Triggers reliably 5/5
Output vs. baseline 7/10
Docs & honesty 4/5

What Academic Pptx does

A content-and-structure guidance skill for academic presentations that rewrites slide titles as complete-sentence "action titles," enforces a Situation/Complication/Resolution argument spine, one annotated exhibit per results slide, in-slide citations, and a Conclusions-not-"Thank You" ending. It triggers on requests to make conference talks, seminar slides, thesis-defense decks, or "slides for my paper," and defers the actual .pptx file generation to the built-in pptx skill.

How to install Academic Pptx

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Gabberflast/academic-pptx-skill.git /tmp/academic-pptx-src
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/academic-pptx
cp -R /tmp/academic-pptx-src/. ~/.claude/skills/academic-pptx/
# SKILL.md is at the repo root, so the whole repo becomes the skill dir.
# This is a CONTENT/STRUCTURE layer only; it defers actual .pptx generation to the built-in pptx skill.
# Runtime deps for building the file (from SKILL.md): pip install "markitdown[pptx]"; npm install -g pptxgenjs; LibreOffice (soffice); Poppler (pdftoppm)

Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ (per-project). Restart Claude Code after installing.

Commands — how to trigger Academic Pptx

/academic-pptx Content and structure rules for academic slide decks, layered on the pptx skill

It also activates on plain-language prompts like these:

Make slides for my thesis defense
Create a conference talk deck from my paper
Build a seminar presentation on my research

Frequently asked questions

Is the Academic Pptx skill free?: Yes. The skill itself is free from Gabberflast/academic-pptx-skill. SkillProof publishes the install command and an independent test verdict at no cost.
Does Academic Pptx work with Claude Code?: We tested it with Claude Code 2.x (agent harness) on Jul 21, 2026. Verdict: Tested · Works. Fetched the raw SKILL.md and both referenced files via the GitHub API; content_guidelines.md, slide_patterns.md, and LICENSE all return HTTP 200, and slide_patterns.md contains concrete PptxGenJS color/font/coordinate defaults. For OUTPUT I gave both a baseline and skill-followed deck outline for the same task ("slides for a conference paper on four-day work weeks and software output"): the baseline used topic-label titles (Introduction, Results, Conclusion, Thank You/Questions), while the skill body produced action-title sentences ("Merged-PR throughput held steady after the switch, -2% n.s."), an SCR spine with the research question by slide 3, one annotated exhibit per results slide, and a Conclusions+References ending with no "Thank You" slide — a ghost-deck test the baseline fails. Note a license contradiction: SKILL.md frontmatter says "Proprietary" while README and LICENSE both say MIT. No security smells found.
What is the Academic Pptx SkillProof Score?: 8.4/10 — installs cleanly 5/5, triggers reliably 5/5, output vs. baseline 7/10, docs & honesty 4/5.
How do I install Academic Pptx?: Copy the install command from this page, run it in your terminal, and restart Claude Code. Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ inside a project.
Can I use Academic Pptx with Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Codex or other AI tools?: The SKILL.md format is native to Claude (Claude Code, Desktop, claude.ai). The instructions inside adapt to other assistants: Cursor rules, GitHub Copilot instructions, Windsurf rules, Custom GPTs, AGENTS.md for OpenAI Codex, and GEMINI.md for Google Gemini CLI — our conversion guides cover each, and the free converter on the tools page does the wrapping for you.