present-paperlisted

# 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) Before collecting inputs, the skill loads three reference files: 1. **`references/slide_design_principles.md`** — Reynolds (Presentation Zen) + Duarte (Slide:ology Glance Test™) + Knaflic (Storytelling with Data preattentive attributes) + Tufte (Cognitive Style of PowerPoint). Defines the 5 design principles, reading-time budgets per audience, cognitive-load ceilings, and the anti-patterns this skill is built to avoid. **Read this first** — it shifts the outline from "what content fits" to "what should the audience remember 10 seconds after each slide." 2. **`references/medical_