reportlab-styles

reportlab-styles is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from HKUDS/OpenSpace. It costs 19 tokens per session (737 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference for using ReportLab's built-in document styles, such as titles, headings, body text, and code text. ReportLab is a Python library for creating PDFs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Formatting generated PDF documents with predefined ReportLab styles.
Why use it?
It prevents errors caused by referring to style names that do not exist in the standard stylesheet.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Formatting generated PDF documents with predefined ReportLab styles.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hkuds/openspace/reportlab-styles
About the project

OpenSpace is a skill-management layer for AI agents that stores, retrieves, evaluates, shares, and improves reusable workflows. It is intended for people using multiple coding agents who want skills to be reused and refined based on task outcomes. The catalogue provides 200 skills for use with OpenSpace and the agents it supports.

HKUDS/OpenSpace · 7,534 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add HKUDS/OpenSpace --skill reportlab-styles
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HKUDS/OpenSpace

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 737 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00019 $0.00737
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00368
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00147
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00074

Measured 4d ago against content hash 9935d7dee185, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reportlab-styles scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

benchmarks/gdpval/skills/reportlab-styles/SKILL.md · 97 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ReportLab Pre-Defined Styles Reference

Overview

ReportLab's reportlab.lib.styles.getSampleStyleSheet() provides a collection of pre-defined paragraph styles. Use these existing styles rather than redefining them to avoid KeyError exceptions.

Available Pre-Defined Styles

The standard stylesheet includes these commonly-used styles:

Style Name Purpose
Normal Default body text
Title Document title (large, bold)
Heading1 Level 1 section heading
Heading2 Level 2 section heading
Heading3 Level 3 section heading
Heading4 Level 4 section heading
Heading5 Level 5 section heading
Heading6 Level 6 section heading
Bullet Bulleted list items
Definition Definition list terms
Italic Italicized text
Code Monospace code text

Correct Usage Pattern

from reportlab.lib.styles import getSampleStyleSheet
from reportlab.platypus import Paragraph

# Get the stylesheet
styles = getSampleStyleSheet()

# Use existing styles directly (CORRECT)
title = Paragraph("My Document Title", styles['Title'])
heading = Paragraph("Section Header", styles['Heading1'])
body = Paragraph("Regular text content", styles['Normal'])

Common Mistake to Avoid

# WRONG - Don't redefine existing style names
from reportlab.lib.styles import getSampleStyleSheet, ParagraphStyle

styles = getSampleStyleSheet()

# This will cause KeyError when you try to use 'Title' later
styles.add(ParagraphStyle(
    name='Title',  # Overwrites the pre-defined 'Title' style
    fontSize=24,
    # ... incomplete definition
))

# Later code expecting the full 'Title' style will fail
paragraph = Paragraph("Title Text", styles['Title'])  # KeyError!

Best Practices

  1. Use existing styles as-is when they meet your needs
  2. Create new style names for custom styles (e.g., MyCustomTitle, CustomHeading)
  3. Base custom styles on existing ones when you need modifications:

Read the full file on GitHub · 97 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 97 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 9935d7dee185

Subscribe to this mod's changes

reportlab-styles is a skill published in the GitHub repository HKUDS/OpenSpace (7,534 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 737 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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