Agent skill

Translate To Quarto

by pedrohcgs in pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow

Translate a Beamer .tex lecture to a Quarto RevealJS .qmd mirror.

MITAuto-check passedDocuments & Office

Install Translate To Quarto

skills CLI
$ npx skills add pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow --skill translate-to-quarto -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow translate-to-quarto --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/translate-to-quarto .claude/skills/translate-to-quarto && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
translate-to-quarto
GitHub stars
1.7k
Token cost
~723 tokens
SKILL.md length
328 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
59
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Translate a Beamer .tex lecture to a Quarto RevealJS .qmd mirror.

  • Works in 12 steps: Pre-Flight Checks → Pre-Translation Preparation → Create QMD File with YAML Header → …
  • User says translate to quarto
  • SKILL.md covers Phase 0: Pre-Flight Checks, Phase 1: Pre-Translation…, Phase 2: Create QMD File with… and Phase 3: Slide-by-Slide…, plus 9 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Translate To Quarto is an agent skill from pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow. Translate a Beamer .tex lecture to a Quarto RevealJS .qmd mirror. Multi-phase: TikZ extraction → slide-by-slide translation → citation conversion → automatic QA parity check. Use when user says "translate to quarto", "port to revealjs", "make an html version", "convert this beamer to quarto", "mirror this lecture in qmd", or after a Beamer deck is ready for web publication. Output lands in Quarto/.

Its SKILL.md is about 720 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Documents & Office, covering LaTeX, Translation and Slides and decks. It works with Plotly. The repository describes itself as: A ready-to-fork Claude Code template for academics using LaTeX/Beamer + R. Multi-agent review, quality gates, adversarial QA, and replication protocols. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • User says translate to quarto
  • Port to revealjs
  • Make an html version
  • Convert this beamer to quarto

Example prompts

  • “translate to quarto”
  • “port to revealjs”
  • “make an html version”
  • “/translate-to-quarto”

Requirements

  • Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): ["Read", "Grep", "Glob", "Write", "Edit", "Bash", "Agent", "Task"]

Workflow steps

12 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Pre-Flight Checks
  2. Pre-Translation Preparation
  3. Create QMD File with YAML Header
  4. Slide-by-Slide Translation
  5. TikZ Diagram Integration
  6. R Figure Integration (Plotly-First)
  7. First Render & Content Fidelity Check
  8. 5: Pedagogical Review
  9. Visual Polish
  10. Proofreading
  11. Final Verification & Deployment
  12. Beamer Source Sync

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit ae72617. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

    • ["Read"
    • "Grep"
    • "Glob"
    • "Write"
    • "Edit"
    • "Bash"
    • "Agent"
    • "Task"]

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Translate To Quarto loads about 723 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 107 tokens; SKILL.md has 328 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~107
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~723

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow at commit ae72617, republished under its MIT licence (© pedrohcgs). 328 words, ~723 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/translate-to-quarto/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
translate-to-quarto
description
Translate a Beamer `.tex` lecture to a Quarto RevealJS `.qmd` mirror. Multi-phase: TikZ extraction → slide-by-slide translation → citation conversion → automatic QA parity check. Use when user says "translate to quarto", "port to revealjs", "make an html version", "convert this beamer to quarto", "mirror this lecture in qmd", or after a Beamer deck is ready for web publication. Output lands in `Quarto/`.
allowed-tools
["Read", "Grep", "Glob", "Write", "Edit", "Bash", "Agent", "Task"]
argument-hint
[LectureN_Topic.tex]
context
fork

Beamer → Quarto Translation Workflow

Full translation of a Beamer LaTeX lecture to Quarto RevealJS HTML slides.

The Beamer .tex is the source of truth: the .qmd mirrors it, and corrections found during translation go back to the .tex (Phase 10).


Phase 0: Pre-Flight Checks

0A. Environment Parity Audit

Scan Beamer for all custom environments. Verify CSS equivalents exist in your theme SCSS. If any are missing, create them FIRST.

0B. TikZ Freshness Verification

Run /extract-tikz to verify SVGs match current Beamer source.

0C. RDS Data Inventory

List all RDS files needed for interactive charts.

0D. Citation Key Mapping

Extract all citations from Beamer, map to bibliography keys.

Phase 1: Pre-Translation Preparation

  • Read complete Beamer source, count frames
  • Inventory figures (TikZ → SVG, R plots → plotly, other → SVG)

Phase 2: Create QMD File with YAML Header

  • Standard RevealJS YAML with theme, logo, footer, bibliography
  • Setup chunk for R data loading if needed

Phase 3: Slide-by-Slide Translation

  • Delegate to beamer-translator agent
  • 1:1 frame-to-slide mapping
  • Verbatim math, environment parity, no font reduction

Phase 4: TikZ Diagram Integration

Reference extracted SVGs with 0-based indexing.

Phase 5: R Figure Integration (Plotly-First)

Interactive plotly from RDS data, static SVG for TikZ/complex figures.

Phase 6: First Render & Content Fidelity Check

Render, count slides, go through EVERY slide checking for issues.

Phase 6.5: Pedagogical Review

Run pedagogy-reviewer before visual polish.

Phase 7: Visual Polish

Semantic colors, transition slides, framing sentences.

Phase 8: Proofreading

Run /proofread on the QMD file.

Phase 9: Final Verification & Deployment

Render, then check the rendered output yourself (the rendered HTML, plus any screenshot or PDF export the user supplies) — every figure present, no overflow, all environments styled.

Phase 10: Beamer Source Sync

Apply any corrections back to Beamer source.

Phase 11: Parity QA + Documentation

Run /qa-quarto on the new mirror for Beamer↔Quarto parity. Then update the lecture row in CLAUDE.md and the session log, and tell the user the deck is ready for /commit — this skill does not commit or open a PR.

© pedrohcgs, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in .claude/skills/translate-to-quarto of pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit ae72617

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Questions about Translate To Quarto

What does Translate To Quarto do?

Translate a Beamer .tex lecture to a Quarto RevealJS .qmd mirror. Translate To Quarto is an agent skill from pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow.qmd mirror.

When should I use Translate To Quarto?

Translate To Quarto fits situations like: user says translate to quarto; port to revealjs; make an html version; convert this beamer to quarto.

How do I install Translate To Quarto in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow --skill translate-to-quarto -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/translate-to-quarto in pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow) into .claude/skills/translate-to-quarto in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Translate To Quarto in Codex?

Run `npx skills add pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow --skill translate-to-quarto -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/translate-to-quarto in pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow) into .agents/skills/translate-to-quarto in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Translate To Quarto in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow --skill translate-to-quarto -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/translate-to-quarto, .gemini/skills/translate-to-quarto, .github/skills/translate-to-quarto and .opencode/skills/translate-to-quarto in your project.

What does Translate To Quarto need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Translate To Quarto is instructions for the agent only. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: ["Read", "Grep", "Glob", "Write", "Edit", "Bash", "Agent", "Task"].

Does Translate To Quarto access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Translate To Quarto safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Translate To Quarto use?

Translate To Quarto is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Translate To Quarto use?

About 723 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.9k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Translate To Quarto?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Translate To Quarto: Translate To Quarto (brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, 4.6k stars), Typst Paper (bahayonghang/academic-writing-skills, 500 stars), Academic Paper (brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, 4.6k stars) and Compiledeck (scunning1975/MixtapeTools, 474 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Translate To Quarto?

pedrohcgs (a GitHub user) maintains it in pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow, which has 1,655 GitHub stars. The repository holds 59 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.

Source: pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.