Create or revise high-quality academic and research presentation slides in Markdown using Marp, following a story-first multi-phase workflow. Use when the user needs conference talk slides, lab or group meeting decks, thesis defense presentations, research seminars, invited talks, mixed-audience or industry research talks, OR wants to create, revise, or edit a talk deck or a specific slide of it (e.g. 'revise slide 7 of my conference talk'). Starts from an audience-facing story spine before slide titles, frameworks, screenshots, or feature lists; then applies Assertion-Evidence and Mayer multimedia principles. For teaching/lecture slides use `teaching-marp-slides`; for written documents use `paper-writing` or `scientific-writing`; for individual figures use `scientific-visualization`.
Create or revise lecture/teaching slides in Markdown using Marp for upper-undergraduate and graduate courses across any academic discipline. Use when the user needs classroom lecture slides, course materials, tutorial slides, or workshop sessions — including a request framed as creating or editing a slides Markdown file (e.g. a '*_slides.md' in a course or week folder) for teaching a class — or wants to revise existing teaching slides. Enforces Cognitive Load Theory, worked-example effect, scaffolding, and retrieval practice principles. Produces both a lecture version and a handout version. For research/conference talks use `academic-marp-slides`; for written documents use `paper-writing` or `scientific-writing`.
Strategically revise an existing CS/AI/Systems conference paper draft for resubmission or submission readiness. Focuses on framing diagnosis, claim crystallization, narrative unification, evidence strengthening, reviewer defense, and venue-aware polish.
Write publication-ready ML/AI/Systems conference papers (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, AAAI, COLM, OSDI, NSDI, ASPLOS, SOSP). Use when the user requests a conference manuscript, needs conference-specific templates/checklists, or format conversion between venues. For journal articles or technical reports, use scientific-writing instead.
Core skill for high-quality research strategy, topic exploration, idea generation, scope/framing critique, contribution assessment, and mentor-style research direction refinement. Use when the user asks whether an idea is worth pursuing, wants brainstormed research directions, needs to pivot, sharpen a paper/proposal scope, evaluate novelty, identify the strongest objection, or turn a vague area into a concrete, testable research plan. Produces a small number of high-bar candidates with premise audits, nearest alternatives, decisive experiments, and kill criteria.
Prompt guidance for the generate_diagram tool — how to describe different scientific diagram types (flowcharts, pathways, architecture, circuits, networks, conceptual) so the tool produces publication-grade output on the first iteration.
Route long-running research compute across available backends — currently local sandbox and Modal remote, generic enough that AWS/GCP/CloudLab can be added without changing this skill. Use for training, fine-tuning, GPU jobs, large data processing, or scripts that may run for many minutes.
Local sandboxed compute — Docker or host process. Use for quick / iterative work, MLX/Metal on Apple Silicon, anything that fits within local memory + disk. Free, no approval gate, supports stop.