/aris-paper-slides

name: aris-paper-slides
description: "Generate conference presentation slides (beamer LaTeX → PDF + editable PPTX) from a compiled paper, with speaker notes and full talk script. Use when user says \"做PPT\", \"做幻灯片\", \"make slides\", \"conference talk\", \"presentation slides\", \"生成slides\", \"写演讲稿\", or wants beamer slides for a conference talk."
argument-hint: "[paper-directory-or-talk-length]"
allowed-tools: Bash(*), Read, Write, Edit, Grep, Glob, Agent, mcp__codex__codex, mcp__codex__codex-reply
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: wanshuiyin/ARIS
  version: "1.0.0"

Paper Slides: From Paper to Conference Talk

Generate conference presentation slides from: **$ARGUMENTS**

Context

This skill runs **after** Workflow 3 (`/aris-paper-writing`). It takes a compiled paper and generates a presentation slide deck for conference oral talks, spotlight presentations, or poster lightning talks.

Unlike posters (single page, visual-first), slides tell a **temporal story**: each slide builds on the previous one, with progressive revelation of the research narrative. A good talk makes the audience understand *why this matters* before showing *what was done*.

Constants

• **VENUE = `NeurIPS`** — Target venue, determines color scheme. Supported: `NeurIPS`, `ICML`, `ICLR`, `AAAI`, `ACL`, `EMNLP`, `CVPR`, `ECCV`, `GENERIC`. Override via argument.
• **TALK_TYPE = `spotlight`** — Talk format. Options: `oral` (15-20 min), `spotlight` (5-8 min), `poster-talk` (3-5 min), `invited` (30-45 min). Determines slide count and content depth.
• **TALK_MINUTES = 15** — Talk duration in minutes. Auto-adjusts slide count (~1 slide/minute for oral, ~1.5 slides/minute for spotlight). Override explicitly if needed.
• **ASPECT_RATIO = `16:9`** — Slide aspect ratio. Options: `16:9` (default, modern projectors), `4:3` (legacy).
• **SPEAKER_NOTES = true** — Generate `\note{}` blocks in beamer and corresponding PPTX notes. Set `false` for clean slides without notes.
• **PAPER_DIR = `paper/`** — Directory containing the compiled paper.
• **OUTPUT_DIR = `slides/`** — Output directory for all slide files.
• **REVIEWER_MODEL = `gpt-5.4`** — Model used via Codex MCP for slide review.
• **AUTO_PROCEED = false** — At each checkpoint, **always wait for explicit user confirmation**.
• **COMPILER = `latexmk`** — LaTeX build tool.
• **ENGINE = `pdflatex`** — LaTeX engine. Use `xelatex` for CJK text.

> 💡 Override: `/aris-paper-slides "paper/" — talk_type: oral, venue: ICML, minutes: 20, aspect: 4:3`

Talk Type → Slide Count

| Talk Type | Duration | Slides | Content Depth | |-----------|----------|:------:|---------------| | `poster-talk` | 3-5 min | 5-8 | Problem + 1 method slide + 1 result + conclusion | | `spotlight` | 5-8 min | 8-12 | Problem + 2 method + 2 results + conclusion | | `oral` | 15-20 min | 15-22 | Full story with motivation, method detail, experiments, analysis | | `invited` | 30-45 min | 25-40 | Comprehensive: background, related work, deep method, extensive results, discussion |

Venue Color Schemes

Same as `/aris-paper-poster`:

| Venue | Primary | Accent | Background | Text | |-------|---------|--------|------------|------| | NeurIPS | `#8B5CF6` | `#2563EB` | `#FFFFFF` | `#1E1E1E` | | ICML | `#DC2626` | `#1D4ED8` | `#FFFFFF` | `#1E1E1E` | | ICLR | `#059669` | `#0284C7` | `#FFFFFF` | `#1E1E1E` | | CVPR | `#2563EB` | `#7C3AED` | `#FFFFFF` | `#1E1E1E` | | GENERIC | `#334155` | `#2563EB` | `#FFFFFF` | `#1E1E1E` |

State Persistence (Compact Recovery)

Persist state to `slides/SLIDES_STATE.json` after each phase:

{
  "phase": 3,
  "venue": "NeurIPS",
  "talk_type": "spotlight",
  "slide_count": 10,
  "codex_thread_id": "019cfcf4-...",
  "status": "in_progress",
  "timestamp": "2026-03-18T15:00:00"
}

**On startup**: if `SLIDES_STATE.json` exists with `"status": "in_progress"` and within 24h → resume. Otherwise → fresh start.

Workflow

Phase 0: Input Validation & Setup

1. **Check prerequisites**:

   which pdflatex && which latexmk

2. **Verify paper exists**:

   ls $PAPER_DIR/main.tex || ls $PAPER_DIR/main.pdf
   ls $PAPER_DIR/sections/*.tex
   ls $PAPER_DIR/figures/

3. **Backup existing slides**: if `slides/` exists, copy to `slides-backup-{timestamp}/`

4. **Create output directory**: `mkdir -p slides/figures`

5. **Detect CJK**: if paper contains Chinese/Japanese/Korean, set ENGINE to `xelatex`

6. **Determine slide count**: from TALK_TYPE and TALK_MINUTES using the table above

7. **Check for resume**: read `slides/SLIDES_STATE.json` if it exists

**State**: Write `SLIDES_STATE.json` with `phase: 0`.

Phase 1: Content Extraction & Slide Outline

Read `paper/sections/*.tex` and build a slide-by-slide outline.

**Slide template by talk type**:

Oral (15-22 slides)

| Slide | Purpose | Content Source | Figure? | |:-----:|---------|----------------|:-------:| | 1 | Title | Paper metadata | No | | 2 | Outline | Section headers | No | | 3-4 | Motivation & Problem | Introduction | Optional | | 5 | Key Insight | Introduction (contribution) | No | | 6-9 | Method | Method section | Yes (hero figure) | | 10-14 | Results | Experiments | Yes (per slide) | | 15-16 | Analysis / Ablations | Experiments | Yes | | 17 | Limitations | Conclusion | No | | 18 | Conclusion / Takeaway | Conclusion | No | | 19 | Thank You + QR | — | QR code |

Spotlight (8-12 slides)

| Slide | Purpose | Content Source | Figure? | |:-----:|---------|----------------|:-------:| | 1 | Title | Paper metadata | No | | 2-3 | Problem + Why It Matters | Introduction | Optional | | 4 | Key Insight | Contribution | No | | 5-6 | Method | Method (condensed) | Yes (hero) | | 7-9 | Results | Key results only | Yes | | 10 | Takeaway | Conclusion | No | | 11 | Thank You + QR | — | QR code |

Poster-talk (5-8 slides)

| Slide | Purpose | Content Source | Figure? | |:-----:|---------|----------------|:-------:| | 1 | Title | Paper metadata | No | | 2 | Problem | Introducti