A Claude Skill for creating high-quality academic presentations: conference talks, seminar slides, thesis defenses, and grant briefings. Also includes a PDF which summarizes the advice (does not require use of Claude).
A Claude Skill for revising draft prose — essays, papers, memos, reports — by finding the best structure for the ideas the author already wants to express. Its guiding principle is idea flow before linguistic flow.
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academic-pptx-skill is a Claude Code plugin with 1 hand-picked skill for content work, indexed on Flowy. Install it with the command on its page. It includes academic-pptx-skill. Its skills do not fire on their own yet. Request auto-invocation to have Flowy route them as you prompt. Free and open source.
$ npx -y skills add Gabberflast/academic-pptx-skill --agent claude-code
Repo: Gabberflast/academic-pptx-skill
A Claude Skill for creating high-quality academic presentations: conference talks, seminar slides, thesis defenses, and grant briefings. Also includes a PDF which summarizes the advice (does not require use of Claude).
This skill overrides Claude's default design-forward presentation style and replaces it with communication-first standards appropriate for academic and analytical contexts. When active, Claude will:
Requirement: Code execution and file creation must be enabled in Settings → Capabilities.
Just ask naturally:
Claude will detect the academic context, load this skill automatically, and apply all guidelines before generating any slides. You do not need to give any special instructions.
This skill works alongside Anthropic's built-in PPTX skill, which handles the technical file generation. This skill handles content, argument structure, and design standards.
academic-pptx-skill/
├── SKILL.md # Entry point: routing logic and design standards
├── content_guidelines.md # Argument structure, action titles, citations, deck architecture
├── slide_patterns.md # Per-slide-type implementation patterns with PptxGenJS code
└── README.md # This file
The guidelines in this skill draw on:
MIT — free to use, adapt, and share.
Academic_Presentation_Best_Practices_DH_built_with_Claude_2_2026.pdf content_guidelines.md LICENSE README.md SKILL.md slide_patterns.md
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