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Visual Audit of Slide Deck
brycewang-stanford/visual-audit
Perform adversarial visual audit of Quarto or Beamer slides checking for overflow, font consistency, box fatigue, and layout issues.
What it changes
Passed 14 of 19 test cases with the skill, and 11 of 19 without it.
Without skill59%
With skill73%
Checks it passed that the model alone missed
- Flags the omission of negative vertical margins.
- Enforces a minimum font size threshold of 0.85em.
- Flags incorrect callout box types as a box fatigue and styling issue.
and 3 more in the full report
6 fixed10 passed either way3 still failing3 broke
- Pass-rate lift
- +14 pp
- Tokens
- -37%
- Agent turns
- 0%
- Response time
- -55%
Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 8/9/2026v116 of 22 cases passed with skill · 19 comparable
See it in action
One of 6 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.
PromptDuring a visual layout audit of slide structure, what introductory prose element should be checked at the top of content sections?
What was checked, without and with the skill| Checked | Without skill | With skill |
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| Flags slides that lack framing sentences above lists or content blocks. | Missed | Passed |
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What's inside
The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.
SKILL.md31 linessingle file
Visual Audit of Slide Deck
Perform a thorough visual layout audit of a slide deck.
Steps
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Read the slide file specified in $ARGUMENTS
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For Quarto (.qmd) files:
- Render with
quarto render Quarto/$ARGUMENTS
- Open in browser to inspect each slide
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For Beamer (.tex) files:
- Compile and check for overfull hbox warnings
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Audit every slide for:
OVERFLOW: Content exceeding slide boundaries
FONT CONSISTENCY: Inline font-size overrides, inconsistent sizes
BOX FATIGUE: 2+ colored boxes on one slide, wrong box types
SPACING: Missing negative margins, missing fig-align
LAYOUT: Missing transitions, missing framing sentences, semantic colors
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Produce a report organized by slide with severity and recommendations
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Follow the spacing-first principle:
- Reduce vertical spacing with negative margins
- Consolidate lists
- Move displayed equations inline
- Reduce image/SVG size
- Last resort: font size reduction (never below 0.85em)
Track record
Benchmark
14 / 19
test cases passed, vs 11 / 19 without
Adoption
- Users
- 0
- Times used
- 0
Safety and source details
SkillSafety
✓ 3 of 3 passed✓Code scan15 of 15 checks clean
0 critical · 0 warning · 0 info — scanner v4 — 8/2/2026
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✓IntentSafe
LLM judge · does the skill do what it claims
✓ContentClean
LLM judge · policy & harmful-content review
Source
Importedbrycewang-stanford / Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills
skills/12-pedrohcgs-claude-code-my-workflow/dot-claude/skills/visual-audit/SKILL.md
License NOASSERTIONImported 8/2/2026Version v1