A professional-grade workflow for the end-to-end creation, compilation, and quality auditing of academic LaTeX Beamer presentations.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install beamer-slide
2. Manual Installation
Copy the skill folder to one of these locations
~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
Copy this prompt to OpenClaw to install it automatically.
Help me install beamer-slide using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
Prefer to download?
Get the raw skill files in a ZIP archive.
What is Beamer Slide Workflow?
The Beamer skill is a comprehensive system designed for researchers, educators, and developers who need to produce high-quality academic slide decks. It manages the entire lifecycle of a presentation, from initial material analysis and structured drafting to rigorous visual and pedagogical audits. By enforcing strict academic standards and professional formatting rules, it ensures your slides are both visually stunning and educationally effective.
Built specifically for the Openclaw Skills ecosystem, this tool prioritizes XeLaTeX for modern typography and integrates deeply with TikZ for vector-perfect diagrams. It moves beyond simple text generation by offering multi-agent reviews that check for visual overflow, mathematical accuracy, and narrative flow, ensuring your content is ready for a professional or academic stage.
Beamer Slide Workflow Use Cases
- Transforming academic papers or research notes into structured Beamer slide decks.
- Automating multi-pass XeLaTeX compilation and citation resolution.
- Performing visual layout audits to catch box-interior overflows and overfull hboxes.
- Extracting figures from PDF papers and generating ready-to-use LaTeX snippets.
- Conducting pedagogical reviews to ensure a 'motivation before formalism' teaching structure.
How Beamer Slide Workflow Works
- Material Analysis: The agent reads provided papers or documents to extract core contributions, notation, and logical flow.
- Needs Interview: A structured interview determines the duration, audience level, and technical depth of the presentation.
- Structure Planning: A detailed outline is generated, allocating slide counts to sections and planning specific TikZ diagrams.
- Iterative Drafting: Content is authored in batches using telegraphic styles, semantic coloring, and mathematical slide patterns.
- Automated Verification: The skill executes 3-pass XeLaTeX compilation and runs a quality loop to score the deck against technical and visual rubrics.
- Multi-Agent Audit: Parallel agents perform final checks on grammar, TikZ accuracy, and pedagogical pacing.
Beamer Slide Workflow Setup
Ensure you have the required system dependencies installed to use this Openclaw Skills module:
# Install TeX Live (XeLaTeX) and PDF utilities
brew install --cask mactex
brew install poppler pdf2svg
# Optional: Install Python dependencies for visual checks
pip install PyMuPDF
Beamer Slide Workflow Data Schema & Taxonomy
The skill organizes presentation projects using a single-source-of-truth philosophy centered on the .tex file:
| File Type | Purpose | Taxonomy/Naming |
|---|---|---|
| .tex | Main Source | Single file containing content and TikZ |
| .bib | Bibliography | Standard BibTeX citation storage |
| figures/ | Image Assets | Named as fig-<label>.png |
| Output | 16:9 aspect ratio, 10pt default | |
| .svg | Web Assets | TikZ diagrams extracted for web/Quarto use |
Beamer Slide Workflow Advanced Features
- Parallel Agent Dispatch: Use the Agent tool to run visual, pedagogical, and proofreading audits simultaneously.
- Devil's Advocate Mode: Challenges slide design with Socratic questions to identify gaps in logic or prerequisite knowledge.
- Math-Accurate TikZ: Automatically computes coordinates using
\pgfmathsetmacroto ensure labels and points align perfectly with plotted curves. - Visual Check Workflow: Converts PDF slides to images to detect hidden content overflows that compilers often ignore.
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