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name: benchmark-report-creator description: Use PROACTIVELY when creating research reports, experiment writeups, technical whitepapers, or empirical study documentation. Orchestrates the complete benchmark report pipeline with structure, diagrams, hi-res PNG capture, and PDF export. Provides working scripts, CSS templates, and complete command sequences for publication-quality AI/ML benchmark reports. Not for slides, blog posts, or simple README files. author: "Connor" category: benchmarking

Benchmark Report Creator

Overview

End-to-end orchestrator for creating publication-quality benchmark reports. This skill coordinates the full pipeline rather than duplicating individual component skills.

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                    BENCHMARK REPORT PIPELINE                             │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│                                                                          │
│  1. STRUCTURE         2. DIAGRAMS           3. EXPORT                   │
│  ┌──────────────┐    ┌──────────────┐      ┌──────────────┐            │
│  │ Markdown     │    │ HTML diagram │      │ pandoc +     │            │
│  │ template     │───►│ with academic│─────►│ weasyprint   │            │
│  │ (sections)   │    │ styling      │      │ (final PDF)  │            │
│  └──────────────┘    └──────┬───────┘      └──────────────┘            │
│                             │                                           │
│                             ▼                                           │
│                      ┌──────────────┐                                   │
│                      │ Playwright   │  ◄── High-res PNG capture         │
│                      │ script       │      (2x deviceScaleFactor)       │
│                      │ (hi-res PNG) │                                   │
│                      └──────────────┘                                   │
│                                                                          │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Key Capabilities:

• Complete pipeline orchestration (not component duplication)
• Working hi-res PNG capture script (fixes Playwright CLI limitations)
• Exact CSS templates from paralleLLM empathy v1.0/v2.0
• Full command sequences with copy-paste examples

When to Use This Skill

Trigger Phrases:

• "create a benchmark report"
• "write up my AI experiment"
• "publication-quality benchmark documentation"
• "full report with diagrams and PDF"
• "empathy experiment style report"

Use Cases:

• AI/ML benchmark evaluation reports
• Model comparison studies
• Empirical experiment writeups
• Research documentation with figures

NOT for:

• Single diagram creation (use html-diagram-creator)
• Simple markdown to PDF (use markdown-to-pdf-converter)
• ASCII diagrams (use ascii-diagram-creator)

Quick Start

Prerequisites

# Install all dependencies
brew install pandoc
pip install weasyprint
npm install playwright
npx playwright install chromium

Complete Pipeline (3 commands)

# 1. Create HTML diagram
#    [Use html-diagram-creator skill or copy template]

# 2. Capture diagram to high-res PNG
node scripts/capture-diagram.js diagram.html figures/figure-1.png

# 3. Convert markdown report to PDF
pandoc report.md --standalone --css=templates/pdf-style.css -t html | weasyprint - report.pdf

Pipeline Phases

Phase 1: Document Structure

Use the report-creator pattern or copy from reference/report-template.md:

Section	Content
Abstract	150-250 word summary
Executive Summary	Key finding + metrics table
1. Background	Research context, hypotheses
2. Methodology	Design, variables, protocol
3. Results	Statistics, observations
4. Discussion	Hypothesis evaluation
5. Limitations	Methodological constraints
6. Future Work	Research directions
7. Conclusion	Synthesis
Appendices	Supporting materials

Phase 2: Create Diagrams

Use the html-diagram-creator pattern for publication-quality HTML diagrams.

Color Palette (Academic Standard):

Stage	Fill	Border	Usage
Data Preparation	#E3F2FD	#1976D2	Input processing
Execution	#E8F5E9	#388E3C	API calls, inference
Analysis	#FFF3E0	#F57C00	Evaluation, scoring

→ Full templates: reference/html-templates.md

Phase 3: Capture to PNG (CRITICAL)

Important: The Playwright CLI --device-scale-factor flag does NOT exist. Use the provided Node.js script instead:

# Working high-res capture (2x retina quality)
node scripts/capture-diagram.js diagram.html output.png

# The script handles:
# - deviceScaleFactor: 2 (retina quality)
# - .diagram-container selector targeting
# - Proper file:// protocol handling

Why not CLI? Playwright's CLI screenshot command doesn't support --device-scale-factor. The bundled script uses the Playwright API directly.

Phase 4: Embed in Markdown

<figure style="margin: 2em auto; page-break-inside: avoid; text-align: center;">
  <img src="figures/figure-1.png" alt="Description" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;">
  <figcaption style="text-align: center; font-style: italic; margin-top: 1em;">
    Figure 1: Caption text.
  </figcaption>
</figure>

Phase 5: Export to PDF

# Two-step (for debugging)
pandoc report.md -o report.html --standalone --css=templates/pdf-style.css
weasyprint report.html report.pdf

# One-liner (production)
pandoc report.md --standalone --css=templates/pdf-style.css -t html | weasyprint - report.pdf

File Structure

benchmark-report-creator/
├── SKILL.md                    # This file (orchestrator)
├── templates/
│   └── pdf-style.css          # Academic CSS (empathy v1.0/v2.0)
├── scripts/
│   └── capture-diagram.js     # Working hi-res PNG capture
├── reference/
│   ├── report-template.md     # Full markdown template
│   ├── html-templates.md      # Diagram HTML templates
│   └── command-reference.md   # All commands in one place
└── examples/
    └── sample-report/         # Complete working example

CSS Template Standards

The bundled templates/pdf-style.css follows empathy v1.0/v2.0 conventions:

Tables (Academic Style)

• Header: 2px solid top/bottom borders
• Body: 1px solid bottom borders
• Last row: 2px solid bottom border
• page-break-inside: avoid

Figures

• max-width: 100% (NOT min-width)
• margin: 2em auto for centering
• page-break-inside: avoid
• Italic captions centered below

Page Control

• 2cm margins
• Headings: page-break-after: avoid
• Orphans/widows: 3 lines minimum

Troubleshooting

Issue	Cause	Solution
Blurry PNG	Using CLI instead of script	Use scripts/capture-diagram.js
Image off-center	Missing margin auto	Add margin: 2em auto to figure
Table split	Missing page-break rule	CSS has this by default
Weasyprint warnings	Unsupported CSS props	Safe to ignore (gap, overflow-x)
Empty PNG	Wrong selector	Check .diagram-container exists

Success Checklist

• All prerequisites installed (pandoc, weasyprint, playwright)
• Diagram HTML created with academic styling
• PNG captured at 2x resolution using script (not CLI)
• Markdown has proper figure tags with captions
• PDF renders without errors
• Tables don't split across pages
• Figures centered with captions

Related Skills (User Global)

These skills may be installed in user's ~/.claude/skills/:

Skill	Purpose	When to Use Directly
report-creator	Document templates	Structure guidance only
html-diagram-creator	Diagram HTML	Single diagram creation
html-to-png-converter	PNG export reference	CLI-only workflows
markdown-to-pdf-converter	PDF pipeline	Non-benchmark documents

This orchestrator combines all four into a single coherent workflow for benchmark reports.

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Based on: paralleLLM empathy-experiment-v1.0.pdf and v2.0.pdf