CF scientific-slides
Build slide decks and presentations for research talks. Use this for making PowerPoint slides, conference presentations, seminar talks, research presentations, thesis defense slides, or any scientific talk. Provides slide structure, design templates, timing guidance, and visual validation. Works with PowerPoint and LaTeX Beamer.
Build slide decks and presentations for research talks.
As a process F 33/100 · No process to follow — References files that are not bundled: assets/beamer_template_conference.tex, assets/beamer_template_seminar.tex, assets/beamer_template_defense.tex
What is at stake
Medium-severity findings: the skill is probably honest, but read what alarmed the scanner.
Below is the worst case for this category. The finding here is medium: the guard saw a sign, not a proof.
The skill asks for more than the task needs: broad tool access, credential environment variables, binaries. Every extra permission widens the damage from a mistake or a compromise.
Narrow allowed-tools and the variable list to the minimum; replace binaries with readable sources or scripts.
How to improve
- The SKILL.md body is over 5,000 tokens: move reference detail into references/ and load it when needed.
- The text references files that are not there: add them or drop the references.
- Your own cases (evals/evals.json, 4–6 real requests with expected answers): the full check would then run those instead of a model-drafted suite.
- A spec.yaml with trigger phrases and assertions — a behaviour contract for CI; `skilltest init` writes a template.
Guard findings · 1
✓ No critical or high findings
Medium and low: 1
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medium Broad scope
meta-broad-allowed-toolsSKILL.md:1Broad tool permissions pre-approved: Bashallowed-tools: Read Write Edit Bash
Files scanned: 14. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
- warning
body-longSKILL.md body ≈ 11691 tokens (recommended < 5000); move details to references/ - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: assets/beamer_template_conference.tex - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: assets/beamer_template_seminar.tex - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: assets/beamer_template_defense.tex
Process rating: all ten parameters 33/100
- 0Tools and files. 3 referenced file(s) missing: assets/beamer_template_conference.tex, assets/beamer_template_seminar.tex, assets/beamer_template_defense.tex
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 0Failures and branches. Linear process with no failure handling
- 20When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 30Running it twice. 24 mutating operations with no state check
- 40Execution cost. Instruction body is 11691 tokens: crowds the task out of the window
- 60Steps. 469 steps, 8 vague phrases
- 60Result and completion. Output format stated, no completion criterion
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Progress reporting. Reports progress
- medium Safety rules and hard prohibitions inside a skill: they belong in the system prompt, here they protect nothing
- low 15 top-level sections: this looks like several domains in one skill
Everything here is measured from the skill text rather than judged by a model, so the numbers are checkable. A parameter weighs more when it is a more common reason for the process to stall.
Quality signals
- +5Description has no quoted example phrases that should trigger the skill
- +4Description does not say when NOT to use the skill (false activations)
- -31 of 5 scripts are never mentioned in SKILL.md
- +2Single-language instructions
- +3Description length 330: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 50 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 469 items
- +3Output format is stated explicitly
- +4Has examples (23 code blocks)
- +4Reference files are cited in the instructions (6 of 6)
- +1License stated
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 67.