ResearchStudio is a collection of skills that helps researchers develop an initial research direction into a paper and its related publication materials. It is used with Claude Code and Codex to create outputs such as papers, posters, videos, blogs, and reels. The catalogue entries are its own workflow skills for different stages of the research lifecycle.
Getting it into your agent
It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/ResearchStudionpx agentmods add skills/microsoft/researchstudio/html2pptxWrote this? Show the measurements
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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/researchstudio/html2pptx)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/researchstudio/html2pptx"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/researchstudio/html2pptx/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/researchstudio/html2pptx"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/researchstudio/html2pptx.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 4 findings, up to high
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- high Tool Misuse · line 161 Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
- medium Privilege Escalation · line 34 Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
- medium Rogue Agent · line 54 Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
- medium Data Exfiltration · line 55 Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00345 | $0.06380 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00138 | $0.02552 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00069 | $0.01276 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00034 | $0.00638 |
Grade B, and why
html2pptx scanned grade B with 2 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 1mo 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.
Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation
A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.
sudo apt install libreoffice-impress Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
curl -sL "https://github.com/rsms/inter/releases/download/v4.0/Inter-4.0.zip" -o Inter.zip How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 349 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
html2pptx
Convert a rendered HTML page → native PowerPoint .pptx with editable shapes (not a PNG-in-slide).
When to use
- "Convert this HTML poster to PPT."
- "I need an editable PowerPoint version of my HTML page."
- "1:1 PPT clone of poster.html — fonts/colors/layout."
- "Hand off the poster to a non-developer in PPT."
When NOT to use
- Need a flat PNG slide → use
paper2poster/demo/presentation/posters.pptx. - HTML uses heavy JS animations / video → those don't translate to PPT shapes.
- Math-heavy KaTeX content → math gets rasterized fallback (loses equation editability).
Setup (one-time)
1. Python deps
pip install python-pptx playwright pdf2image lxml Pillow pyphen cairosvg
playwright install chromium # ~110MB headless browser
2. soffice (for verification)
# Linux:
sudo apt install libreoffice-impress
# Mac:
brew install --cask libreoffice
3. Web fonts — CRITICAL for fidelity (Read GOTCHAS.md)
Default = Arial → you can skip this whole section. Since the paper2poster Arial default, posters render in Arial (or another PPT-safe family: Calibri, Aptos, Cambria, Times New Roman, Verdana, Georgia, Trebuchet MS). Those are pre-installed on every Mac + Windows PowerPoint, so you do not need the font installs below and the
.pptxis portable without embedding. The Inter / Source Serif 4 / JetBrains Mono setup below applies only when the poster was rendered with the optional Inter webfont override.
Without Inter / Source Serif 4 / JetBrains Mono installed, soffice falls back to DejaVu Sans (Linux) or Helvetica (Mac) — character widths change, text wraps differently, all positions cascade-shift.
Linux:
# Download static-weight TTFs (variable fonts register under wrong family name)
mkdir -p /tmp/fonts-dl && cd /tmp/fonts-dl
curl -sL "https://github.com/rsms/inter/releases/download/v4.0/Inter-4.0.zip" -o Inter.zip
curl -sL "https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-serif/releases/download/4.005R/source-serif-4.005_Desktop.zip" -o SourceSerif4.zip
curl -sL "https://github.com/JetBrains/JetBrainsMono/releases/download/v2.304/JetBrainsMono-2.304.zip" -o JetBrainsMono.zip
unzip -qo Inter.zip -d Inter/
unzip -qo SourceSerif4.zip -d SourceSerif4/
unzip -qo JetBrainsMono.zip -d JetBrainsMono/
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/fonts
cp Inter/extras/ttf/Inter-{Regular,Medium,SemiBold,Bold,Italic,SemiBoldItalic,BoldItalic}.ttf ~/.local/share/fonts/
cp SourceSerif4/source-serif-4.005_Desktop/TTF/SourceSerif4-{Regular,Semibold,Bold,It,SemiboldIt,BoldIt}.ttf ~/.local/share/fonts/
cp JetBrainsMono/fonts/ttf/JetBrainsMono-{Regular,Medium,Bold,Italic,BoldItalic}.ttf ~/.local/share/fonts/
fc-cache -f ~/.local/share/fonts/
# Verify: fc-match MUST return the font itself, not a fallback
fc-match "Inter" "Source Serif 4" "JetBrains Mono"
What ships with it
16 files 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.
- __init__.py 0 B runs code
- .gitignore 105 B
- difference.md 6.2 KB
- GOTCHAS.md 19 KB
- README.md 2.9 KB
- requirements.txt 86 B
- scripts/__init__.py 0 B runs code
- scripts/auto_correct_loop.py 16 KB runs code
- scripts/auto_fix_loop.py 16 KB runs code
- scripts/font_embedder.py 32 KB runs code
- scripts/font_resolver.py 14 KB runs code
- scripts/html_to_pptx.py 161 KB runs code
- scripts/vision_aggregate.py 3.4 KB runs code
- scripts/vision_audit.py 13 KB runs code
- scripts/vision_compare.py 13 KB runs code
- scripts/vision_eval_harness.py 3.8 KB runs code
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 349 lines · 345 tokens per session scan B d1b60fc030e5
html2pptx is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/ResearchStudio (3,264 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 345 tokens to every session and 6,380 once invoked, about $0.0014 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (asks for root, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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