Introduction

DeepSeek Harness (DSH) emphasizes pluggability and modularity. When handling academic content, a common practice is to rely on paper abstracts or reconstruct from memory, which often leads to incomplete demonstrations or loose logic. The dsh-paper-slides plugin aims to solve this problem. As a coordinator, it reads the full paper, sets a budget for a specific scenario, and automatically generates a structured demonstration.

Core Features

This plugin mainly addresses the workflow question of “how to generate a qualified academic report from a paper,” with the following capabilities:

  • Read full text instead of abstracts: supports retrieving the actual full-text content of a paper via DOI, arXiv, or semantic search.
  • Scenario-based duration budgeting: for different scenarios such as seminar (group meeting), conference, defense, proposal, and journal club, automatically calculates appropriate duration and slide count.
  • Content decomposition: returns the slide budget for each section, clearly distinguishing content on slides from the scripted content in speaker notes.
  • Output format adaptation: returns expected output formats based on scenario. For example, conferences and defenses usually require editable .pptx and HTML, while group meeting reports usually only need HTML.
  • Skill integration: provides three core skills: plan_talk (planning), make_slides (generation), and paper-to-talk (end-to-end workflow).

Installation and Dependencies

The plugin itself does not directly read data or render files; instead, it coordinates other plugins. When installing, its dependencies must also be installed:

dsh plugin --profile web add dsh-ai4scholar dsh-slides dsh-paper-slides

After installation, start the Web environment to load the plugin:

dsh web

Dependency Description

  • dsh-ai4scholar: provides paper search, full text, figures and tables, and citation data.
  • dsh-slides: responsible for rendering planned content into files (HTML and PPTX).

Configuration and Usage

The plugin registers related skills by default. To customize the configuration, add the following entry to cordis.patch.yml:

- id: paper-slides
  config:
    skills: true            # 注册 paper-to-talk 技能
    planTool: true          # 注册 plan_talk 工具
    promptGuidance: true
    promptOrder: 145

Typical Usage

The user only needs to provide the paper source and desired duration to generate a presentation. For example:

“Turn this paper 10.1038/s41586-021-03819-2 into a 12-minute conference report.”

The system will automatically read the full text, plan a 12-minute talk structure, build slides around key figures and tables, write speaker notes as a script, and ultimately output an HTML or PPTX file.

Notes

  • Language: The internal logic of the skill body is in English, but the model will output the final report in the language of the user’s input.
  • Output formats: The specific output formats (such as HTML and PPTX) are provided by the dsh-slides plugin, supporting offline-play HTML and editable PPTX.

Summary

dsh-paper-slides provides DeepSeek Harness users with a standardized workflow from paper to academic report. By reading the full text, budgeting time, and decomposing content, it avoids the information loss caused by relying on abstracts. Developers can refer to the GitHub repository for more implementation details.