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research-talk from ericluo04/claude-academic-workflow is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add ericluo04/claude-academic-workflow/research-talk@git:20260914.b89bc04

Pins git:20260914.b89bc04 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
ericluo04/claude-academic-workflow
Path
skills/research-talk/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
6
Latest version
git:20260914.b89bc04, committed Sep 14, 2026
First version recorded
Jul 27, 2026
Size
27,390 bytes
Repository stars
25
License
a license file GitHub does not identify

Author a Quarto reveal.js deck for a research talk: seminar, conference, job talk, brown bag. TRIGGER on "slides for my talk", "seminar deck", "job talk", "turn this paper into slides", "add an appendix slide", "export a handout". Classroom material is teaching-lecture; auditing an existing deck is slide-review.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Research talk decks

Build a deck a seminar audience can follow cold: a clear visual hierarchy in which the exhibit dominates each slide, and staged reveals only where they help a point land.

Builds a `.qmd` that renders to a reveal.js HTML deck for a seminar, conference
talk, job talk, or brown bag. The audience is other researchers who are reading
dense exhibits and following an argument, so the deck stays quiet and the
evidence carries the weight.

Out of scope: classroom lectures (use `teaching-lecture`, which has its own
theme, a larger root font for a lecture hall, and the pedagogy vocabulary),
auditing a deck you did not write (use `slide-review`), and LaTeX Beamer (use
`compile-latex`).

Shared theme and tooling live in `~/.claude/assets/quarto-yale/`.
`README.md` there is the machinery reference: what the filter rewrites, what
the gates assert, the reference packer, the progress-bar takeover, and the
settings that silently break a deck. Read it for any of that; where it and the
source disagree, the source wins. The head of `starter-theme.scss` carries the
theme's own reasoning about each class.

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add ericluo04/claude-academic-workflow/research-talk@sha256:6cb23969d03c01fb

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260914.b89bc04, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Jul 27, 2026 and Sep 14, 2026, about one every 10 days.

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Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (27390 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

ericluo04/claude-academic-workflow · 25 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-29 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_uyh3vklqc37e5bdq
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ericluo04/claude-academic-workflow/research-talk
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6cb23969d03c01fbb31dc35f29090658b4ed352d20bec29fa10db8670b64c8a3

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