scholar-sidekick-mcp

Equip compatible agents such as Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode to work with Obsidian-specific Markdown, Bases views and formulas, JSON Canvas files, and the Obsidian CLI. A Defuddle skill can also extract cleaner Markdown from web pages before saving it into a vault. Installation is available through the Claude marketplace, npx skills, or manual placement in the relevant skills directory.

Give a capable coding agent an article, argument, or product brief and this skill guides it through an editorial-magazine or Swiss-grid presentation workflow. It can produce a horizontal single-file HTML deck, supporting imagery, and matching social covers, with a low-power static mode for presentation. The format suits talks and opinion-led storytelling more than dense tables or collaborative editing, and its primary deliverable is HTML rather than native PPTX.

dailypaper-skills collects new papers from Hugging Face and arXiv, scores them against your research interests, and produces a daily reading list grouped by priority. Selected papers can be expanded into structured Obsidian notes covering methods, experiments, equations, figures, limitations, and follow-up questions, with indexes maintained automatically. It requires Claude Code, Obsidian, Python, and Poppler; Zotero integration is optional.

This Claude Skill shapes conference talks, seminars, thesis defenses, and grant briefings around a clear argument rather than a collection of topic slides. It uses takeaway-style titles, keeps results slides focused on one exhibit, and applies in-slide citations plus a final references section. Claude's built-in PPTX capability handles the actual file generation, so code execution and file creation must be enabled.