Turn a CVPR 2026 paper into a print-ready 84"×42" poster by chatting with an AI agent. No manual templating, no PowerPoint, no fighting with print dialogs.

This is a Claude Code / Codex skill — not a standalone CLI tool. You install it once into your agent, then talk to it in plain language.

Claude Code

git clone https://github.com/yunyiliu/cvpr-2026-poster-skill.git
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
ln -s "$(pwd)/cvpr-2026-poster-skill/cvpr-2026-poster" ~/.claude/skills/cvpr-2026-poster

Start a new Claude Code session (existing sessions don't auto-pick-up new skills). The skill appears in the available-skills list as cvpr-2026-poster.

Codex / other agents: copy or symlink the same cvpr-2026-poster/ folder into your agent's skill location — refer to that tool's docs for the exact path.

In a new session, write a single message like:

Use $cvpr-2026-poster to create a poster workspace from my Overleaf folder at /path/to/your/overleaf-folder/. Fill the brief from LaTeX, copy figures, auto-fetch institution logos, and sync the editable poster.

The agent will:

• Run init_poster_project.py to scaffold the workspace
• Run fill_brief_from_latex.py to extract your paper's title, authors, affiliations, abstract, and figures
• Run sync_poster_from_brief.py to populate the editable HTML, copy figures into place, and fetch logos from your institutions' websites
• Open the resulting poster/index.html for you to inspect

If you have multiple institutions, list them in the same order as Affiliations in poster_brief.md and add one institution website per school. The agent does this automatically when the LaTeX is clear.

Once the poster is open in the browser, just describe edits in chat:

Make the Results card use a side-by-side figure/text layout, and shrink the conference logo a bit.

The Contributions card is too long — keep it to one lead sentence and three bullets.

Move the Conclusion card to the bottom of the rightmost column.

The agent will edit poster-config.json (and re-embed it into index.html) for you. Hard-refresh the browser tab to see the result.

You can also edit in the browser directly:

• Drag column dividers to change column widths
• Drag horizontal dividers to change card heights
• Drag a card's ◆ handle (or click two handles in sequence) to swap card positions
• Use A+ / A- to scale all fonts globally
• Click Save when you're happy — that downloads poster-config.json to ~/Downloads/ with your layout

After you click Save in the browser, in a terminal:

cd poster-workspace
bash bake_and_export.sh

This picks up the saved poster-config.json from ~/Downloads/, re-embeds it into index.html, and runs headless Chrome to produce poster.pdf at exactly 84.01" × 42.01" (or the workshop size).

If you have not touched the layout in the browser since the last agent edit, just run:

bash export_pdf.sh

Send poster.pdf directly to your printer.

• Google Chrome (for the PDF export step)
• Python 3 (preinstalled on macOS and most Linux distros)

That's all. The skill ships the rest:

• LaTeX extractor
• Institution-logo auto-fetcher
• Editable HTML poster scaffold
• Headless-Chrome PDF exporter at the exact poster size
• Official CVPR 2026 Denver logo and template

A typical workspace looks like:

poster-workspace/
├── poster_brief.md         ← human-readable summary of paper content
├── poster/
│   ├── index.html          ← the editable poster, open in a browser
│   ├── poster-config.json  ← serialized layout + content
│   ├── figures/            ← display copies of figures
│   └── logos/
│       ├── user/           ← school logos (top-left)
│       └── official/       ← CVPR conference logo (top-right)
├── assets/
│   ├── figures/            ← original figures from the LaTeX project
│   └── logos/              ← school / lab logos (user or auto-fetched)
├── references/
│   └── latex-extract.md    ← summary of what was pulled from LaTeX
├── export_pdf.sh           ← one-command headless-Chrome PDF export
└── bake_and_export.sh      ← bake current browser layout, then export

Output is PDF, no bleed. The exporter honors the poster's @page declaration so the PDF page size matches the track exactly.

If you want to drive the scripts manually instead of through an agent, all of them are plain Python:

python3 cvpr-2026-poster/scripts/init_poster_project.py --project-dir ./poster-workspace --track main
python3 cvpr-2026-poster/scripts/fill_brief_from_latex.py --project-dir ./poster-workspace --latex-dir /path/to/overleaf --copy-figures
# edit poster-workspace/poster_brief.md
python3 cvpr-2026-poster/scripts/sync_poster_from_brief.py --project-dir ./poster-workspace --fetch-logos-if-missing
open poster-workspace/poster/index.html
# (edit in browser, click Save when done)
cd poster-workspace && bash bake_and_export.sh

MIT. See LICENSE.