What is beamer-academic?

Beamer Academic is a skill for Claude Code and Codex that takes a thesis document and automatically produces a set of presentation slides ready for an academic defense. The README is written in both English and Chinese. You provide your thesis as a Word file, a PDF, or a LaTeX source file, answer a few questions about your name, university, advisor, and preferred color scheme, and the tool handles the rest without requiring you to know LaTeX. The pipeline works in stages. First it extracts content from the thesis: figures, tables, equations, and structure. Then it generates an outline and assigns each section to one of thirteen slide layout types. You confirm the outline, which is the only step requiring manual input. After that it fills in the layout templates page by page, compiles the result using a LaTeX typesetting engine called XeLaTeX, and delivers a finished PDF. If something looks wrong on a specific slide, you can describe the problem by page number and the tool will adjust and recompile. The thirteen layouts cover the standard elements of an academic presentation: a cover slide, a table of contents, section dividers, text-only slides, combinations of text and images on either side, formula slides, tables, full-page figures, conclusion boxes, transition slides, contribution lists, and a closing acknowledgement slide. Five color schemes are included with suggested pairings: blue for STEM subjects, red for humanities, green for agriculture and environmental fields, purple for arts, and teal for medicine. Installation requires cloning the repository into a skills directory for either Claude Code or Codex. LaTeX must be installed on the machine separately, though the skill will guide you through that setup if it is missing. The preferred input format is the original Word or LaTeX source file rather than a PDF export, since PDF conversion involves quality loss for figures and formulas. The project is MIT licensed.