# Academic Presentations

Create academic presentation slide decks and optionally demo videos from research papers.

- Repository: https://github.com/Boom5426/Nature-Paper-Skills (646 stars)
- Category: Documents
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-10-13
- Runs scripts: yes, review before use

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add Boom5426/Nature-Paper-Skills --skill academic-presentations -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add Boom5426/Nature-Paper-Skills --skill academic-presentations -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add Boom5426/Nature-Paper-Skills --skill academic-presentations -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add Boom5426/Nature-Paper-Skills --skill academic-presentations -g -a gemini-cli -y`

## Description

Create academic presentation slide decks and optionally demo videos from research papers. Use when the user asks to "make slides", "create a deck", "make a presentation", "demo video", "paper slides", "conference talk slides", or wants to turn a paper into a visual presentation. Covers slide generation, narration scripts, TTS audio, and video assembly.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# Academic Presentations

Produce slide decks (and optionally narrated demo videos) from research papers. The human drives all outline and visual decisions, the agent executes.

## Pipeline

```
[1] Script Draft ──→ [2] Slide Generation ──→ [3] TTS Audio (optional) ──→ [4] Video Assembly (optional)
     Claude Code          nanobanana /edit     edge-tts / Kokoro / ElevenLabs       ffmpeg
```

Skip stages 3, 4 for slide-only output. User can enter at any stage.

## Stage 1: Script / Outline

**Input**: paper + user-provided outline or slide plan
**Output**: `video-scripts.md` or `slide-outline.md`, per-slide content with talking points

The agent drafts scripts based on the user's outline. The user owns the structure, agent does not decide slide count, order, or what to emphasize.

## Stage 2: Slide Generation

> Full reference: [references/slide-generation.md](references/slide-generation.md)

**Tool**: nanobanana (Gemini CLI extension)

**Priority order** (edit-first):
1. **Has paper figure** → nanobanana `/edit` to wrap into slide frame
2. **Has existing slide** → `/edit` to adapt
3. **User-provided reference** (e.g., from NotebookLM or PPTX the user made) → `/edit` to refine
4. **Title slide from scratch** → generate with academic style prompt
5. **Content slide from scratch** → generate with deck-style preamble

**Key principle**: prefer `/edit` on existing HQ paper figures over generating from scratch.

**Deck style**: create `deck-style.md` once per deck, prepend to all generate-from-scratch prompts. For `/edit`, style is inherited from the base image.

Example `deck-style.md`:
```markdown
- Canvas: 1920x1080, white background
- Accent: #2563EB blue, text: #1e293b dark slate
- Clean sans-serif, flat design, no gradients/shadows
- Bottom bar: blue accent with white affiliation text
```

## Stage 3: TTS Audio (optional)

The rest: https://github.com/Boom5426/Nature-Paper-Skills/blob/HEAD/skills/optional/academic-presentations/SKILL.md