QA procedure and tool for LaTeX papers and Beamer decks: clean build, zero undefined references, overfull boxes, slide overflow, unreferenced floats, numbering, and LaTeX to Word with resolved cross-references.
Install with the Skills CLI (verifies the checksum, previews the destination, never runs scripts)
skills install @spboucher/latex-manuscript-qa@1.0.0 --client claude-codeAdd --project to install into .claude/skills/latex-manuscript-qa instead of ~/.claude/skills/latex-manuscript-qa.
1Or manually: download the release archive
curl -fsSLo latex-manuscript-qa-1.0.0.tar.gz https://skills.spboucher.ai/api/v1/artifacts/spboucher/latex-manuscript-qa/versions/1.0.0/download2Verify the SHA-256 checksum
echo "334cd21c2ca8ee9ed1e53dbc788568c8a94deaf273e758b2c6d61375fba0061c latex-manuscript-qa-1.0.0.tar.gz" | shasum -a 256 -c -3Inspect the contents before extracting
tar -tzf latex-manuscript-qa-1.0.0.tar.gz4Extract into ~/.claude/skills/latex-manuscript-qa
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/latex-manuscript-qa && tar -xzf latex-manuscript-qa-1.0.0.tar.gz -C ~/.claude/skills/latex-manuscript-qaInstalling only copies or configures. Nothing is executed for you. The Skills CLI verifies the checksum before writing files.
An Agent Skill for getting a LaTeX paper or Beamer deck to a state you can send: a build from scratch, no undefined reference or citation, no overfull box above a threshold, no slide running off the bottom, every float referenced, numbering you can check, and a Word version that keeps the numbers.
| Path | Purpose |
|---|---|
SKILL.md | Ground rules, the procedure, commands, limits |
references/qa-procedure.md | Each check: pass criterion and fixes |
references/beamer-overflow.md | How overflowing frames are found, and what is not detected |
references/latex-to-word.md | The conversion recipe and what does not survive |
references/costly-errors.md | Package order, Biber against BibTeX, fonts, encoding, pgfplots, floats |
scripts/latex.mjs | Command-line tool, JSON output, exit code 0 / 1 / 2 |
scripts/lib/ | The engine (shared with the latex-build-mcp server) |
No dependencies beyond Node.js 20+ and a TeX distribution. latexmk, biber, pandoc, texcount,
chktex and pdftotext are used when present; node scripts/latex.mjs status shows what is missing.
skills install @spboucher/latex-manuscript-qa --client claude-code # or codex, cursor, generic-agent-skills
node scripts/latex.mjs qa paper/main.tex
The tool compiles with shell escape off and ignores project latexmkrc files, reads and writes
only inside LATEX_MCP_ROOT (default: the current directory), writes build products to a
.latex-build/ directory it marks as its own, and deletes nothing else.
On macOS with TeX Live 2026, pandoc 3.9 and Node 26: fixtures with known defects are compiled and each diagnostic is asserted by file and line. Not tested on Windows or with MiKTeX.
MIT
Select a file to preview it. Files are shown as plain text and never executed.
scripts/lib/engine.mjsStatic checks are advisory. They never certify that a package is safe. Compatibility entries are publisher claims unless marked verified.
| Version | Published | Size | SHA-256 | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.0latest | Nov 10, 2026 | 35 kB | 334cd21c2ca8… | published |
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