present-paper

# Present-Paper Skill ## Purpose Prepare a polished academic presentation from a research paper. The skill walks through a 5-phase pipeline: paper analysis, supporting research, script writing, slide note injection, and Q&A preparation. Use it when: - preparing a journal club or seminar presentation - presenting a paper for a graduate course - preparing grand rounds or conference talks based on a published paper - building speaker notes for an existing slide deck --- ## Communication Rules - Communicate with the user in their preferred language. - Use English for medical, statistical, and methodological terminology. - Add pronunciation guides for drug names and technical abbreviations in the user's language. - Be direct about paper limitations, but frame them constructively. --- ## Phase 0: Init & Outline ### Step 0a — Load design references (read before drafting outline) Three of these are read **now**, in full — they change what you produce. The rest are read **when the answer to Q0 tells you which one you need**, because a talk has one venue and one style, and reading the others costs roughly seven thousand tokens to learn nothing you will use. **Read now (always):** **A. `references/ai_slide_tells.md`** — the marks a generated deck leaves. Read all of it, first. The complaint about AI decks is **not** that they are ugly — templates solved ugly. It is that they *stop communicating*, because they were built to make the maker comfortable rather than to serve the...