/paper-talk

name: paper-talk
description: "End-to-end conference talk pipeline: paper → slide outline → Beamer + PPTX → per-page polish → assurance checks (claim / citation / anonymity) → final export and report. Default-good for academic conference talks (NeurIPS / ICML / ICLR / VALSE / 投稿 talks). Trigger phrases: \"做 talk\", \"做 PPT 全流程\", \"talk pipeline\", \"end-to-end slides\", \"做演讲\", \"conference talk full workflow\". Use when the user wants the complete talk artifact, not just a slide deck."
argument-hint: "[paper-dir] [— talk_type: oral | spotlight | poster-talk | invited] [— minutes: N] [— assurance: draft | polished | conference-ready] [— reference: <pdf>] [— style: generic | why-rf | <venue>] [— style-ref: <paper-source>] [— effort: lite | balanced | max | beast] [— anonymous]"
allowed-tools: Bash(*), Read, Write, Edit, Grep, Glob, Skill, mcp__codex__codex

Paper Talk: End-to-End Conference Talk Pipeline

Workflow: from a completed paper to a conference-ready talk artifact — slide outline, Beamer source, editable PPTX, speaker notes, full talk script, polished visuals, and assurance checks.

Pipeline target: **$ARGUMENTS**

Assurance Ladder

The skill takes an explicit `— assurance:` argument; default is `polished`.

| Level | Phases run | Use when | |---|---|---| | `draft` | 0 → 1 → 2 → 5 → 6 | Internal practice talk; quick first-pass deck | | `polished` (default) | 0 → 1 → 2 → 3 → 5 → 6 | Lab seminar, workshop, default conference talk | | `conference-ready` (or `submission`) | 0 → 1 → 2 → 3 → **4** → 5 → 6 | Top-venue oral / spotlight where slide claims are scrutinised; or anonymous submission |

Phase 4 (assurance checks) is opt-in via `— assurance: conference-ready`. The lower levels skip claim / citation / anonymity audits, which is correct when content has already been audited at the paper-writing stage.

Hard Invariants

These are non-negotiable across all phases:

1. **Original paper is read-only.** This workflow consumes the paper directory; it never modifies `paper/main.tex` or other paper artifacts. 2. **Original deck is preserved.** `/paper-slides` produces a baseline deck; `/slides-polish` writes a `_polished` versioned copy. The original Beamer + PPTX are never overwritten. 3. **Speaker notes are byte-stable.** Polish must not change `slide.notes_slide` content. Phase 4 verifies this. 4. **No new content anywhere in the pipeline.** All slide text, speaker notes, talk script, Q&A answers, claims, numbers, citations, URLs, author names, affiliations, anonymity placeholders, and experiment results must be either paper-grounded (extracted from `PAPER_DIR/` artefacts) or explicitly user-provided. The pipeline never invents content during outline, build, polish, audit, or export. Phase-4 anonymity scan + claim audit verify this end-to-end. 5. **No slide reordering.** Add / drop / reorder requires explicit user flags. 6. **Cross-model independence.** Per-page Codex calls in `/slides-polish` use fresh threads (no `codex-reply`). See `../shared-references/reviewer-independence.md`. 7. **Anonymity fail-closed.** If any audit (or any Codex fix proposal) would replace a placeholder with a real title / count / URL, the workflow halts and surfaces the proposal for human review. See `../shared-references/experiment-integrity.md`. 8. **Style references are guidance, not text source.** A `— reference:` PDF or `— style:` preset informs visual weight and structural rhythm; never copy prose, examples, slide titles, or speaker-note text from the reference. 9. **Final report cannot be `conference-ready` unless required audits pass.** Phase 6 verifies and downgrades verdict if audits fail. 10. **`reasoning_effort: xhigh`** is invariant across all `effort` levels for any Codex call invoked by sub-skills.

Constants

• **PAPER_DIR = `paper/`** — Source paper directory. Override via positional argument.
• **OUTPUT_DIR = `slides/`** — Where the deck artefacts live.
• **STATE_DIR = `.aris/paper-talk/`** — Workflow state, audit logs, final report.
• **TALK_TYPE = `spotlight`** — Default talk format. Inherited by `/paper-slides`.
• **TALK_MINUTES = 15** — Default duration. Inherited by `/paper-slides`.
• **VENUE = `NeurIPS`** — Default venue (used by `/paper-slides` color schemes when `— style` is not passed).
• **ASPECT_RATIO = `16:9`** — Inherited by `/paper-slides`.
• **STYLE_PRESET** — `generic` if not passed; `why-rf` and venue presets supported by `/slides-polish`.
• **REFERENCE_VISUAL** — Required when `assurance ≥ polished`. The Beamer compile of this talk is an acceptable self-reference; an external academic talk PDF is preferred when the user wants visual alignment beyond defaults.
• **AUTO_PROCEED = false** — Each major phase pauses for user approval. Set `true` only when explicitly requested.

Inputs

Discovered from `$ARGUMENTS` and the project directory:

1. **`PAPER_DIR/`** — compiled paper (`main.tex` + `main.pdf`). The paper must already be in good shape; this workflow does not write the paper. 2. **`PAPER_DIR/sections/*.tex`** — section sources for content extraction. 3. **`PAPER_DIR/figures/`** — figures available for slide reuse. 4. **(optional) `slides/SLIDE_OUTLINE.md`** — pre-existing outline (resume mode); skips Phase 1 generation. 5. **(optional) `— reference: <pdf>`** — visual anchor for `/slides-polish`. If absent and the assurance level requires polish, the workflow uses the Beamer self-compile as reference. 6. **(optional) `— talk_type`, `— minutes`, `— style`, `— effort`** — see Constants.

Output Layout

File names match `/paper-slides`'s emit contract — this workflow is a **non-renaming consumer**.

slides/
├── SLIDE_OUTLINE.md                # Phase-1 outline (claim-first per slide)
├── main.tex                        # Beamer source (from /paper-slides)
├── main.pdf                        # compiled Beamer
├── presentation.pptx               # editable PPTX (from /paper-slides; emit name fixed by /paper-slides)
├── presentation_pre_polish.p