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
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.
npx skills add microsoft/ResearchStudio --skill paper2assetsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/ResearchStudioWrote 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/paper2assets)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/researchstudio/paper2assets"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/researchstudio/paper2assets/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/paper2assets"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/researchstudio/paper2assets.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 3 findings, up to medium
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 →
- medium Rogue Agent · line 146 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 Rogue Agent · line 199 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 Rogue Agent · line 520 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.
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 | $0.00000 | $0.15604 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00000 | $0.06242 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00000 | $0.03121 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.01560 |
Grade A, and why
paper2assets 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 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.
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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 734 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
paper2assets — paper PDF → reusable assets
One paper PDF in, a single <outdir>/ of poster-agnostic assets out, ready for any downstream renderer.
Output Contract (the shared layout every paper2* skill follows)
paper2assets defines the on-disk shape of every deliverable bundle in the pipeline. paper2poster, html2pptx, paper2blog, paper2video, and paper2reel all read from and write to a bundle laid out this way — a teammate adding or changing a downstream skill conforms to this contract.
Rules
- The bundle directory is named after the paper.
- The bundle's top level holds ONLY that skill's deliverable FILES — no loose intermediates, and as few folders as possible.
- Every dependency and intermediate (figures, logos, qr, audio, fonts, captions, slides, the spec / json / txt) lives under one
assets/container.
Layout
<paper-name>/
|-- <deliverable files> # see the per-skill table below
|-- manifest.json # package index (root-relative paths); the one allowed top-level non-deliverable
`-- assets/
|-- figures/ logos/ qr/ audio/ fonts/ # runtime deps the deliverables reference
`-- meta/ # build intermediates
|-- paper_spec.md sections.json narration.json
`-- captions.json figures.json metadata.json text.txt
Deliverables reference assets with root-relative src paths -- assets/figures/..., assets/logos/..., assets/qr/..., assets/audio/... -- so the bundle is self-contained and movable (no absolute paths leak in). The path / file fields in figures.json, fetch_logos.py, and make_qr.py output already carry the assets/ prefix; downstream drops them into src verbatim.
Per-skill deliverables (top-level FILES):
| Skill | Top-level deliverable files |
|---|---|
| paper2assets | manifest.json (+ the whole assets/ package) |
| paper2poster | poster.html, poster.pdf, poster.png, poster.pptx |
| paper2blog | blog_zh.docx, blog_en.docx |
| paper2video | video.mp4, video_no_subtitles.mp4 |
| paper2reel | reel.html |
What ships with it
13 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.
- README.md 5.0 KB
- scripts/build_package.py 23 KB runs code
- scripts/crop_figure.py 39 KB runs code
- scripts/extract_pdf.py 48 KB runs code
- scripts/fetch_conf_logo.py 9.9 KB runs code
- scripts/fetch_logos.py 54 KB runs code
- scripts/figure_semantics.py 32 KB runs code
- scripts/make_qr.py 12 KB runs code
- scripts/source_figures.py 25 KB runs code
- scripts/utils/__init__.py 0 B runs code
- scripts/utils/layout.py 3.5 KB runs code
- scripts/utils/logo_quality.py 12 KB runs code
- scripts/utils/logo_trim.py 6.4 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 · 734 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A c6baee00cc58
paper2assets is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/ResearchStudio (3,328 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 15,604 tokens. 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 2026-08-30.
Other skills, from other repositories
wafflebase-docs
Use for Wafflebase word-processor docs and markdown notes — reading or summarizing a doc, turning repository files into a doc or note, editing doc or note text, DOCX import/export, PDF export. Load the core wafflebase skill first for setup, links and the write protocol.
pptx-manipulation
This skill enables programmatic creation, editing, and manipulation of Microsoft PowerPoint (.pptx) presentations using the python-pptx library. Create professional slides with text, shapes, images, charts, and tables without manual editing.
2slides-ppt-generator
AI-powered presentation generation via the 2slides API — create slides from text, match a reference image style, summarize documents into decks, add AI voice narration, and export pages/audio. Use f.
apify-youtube-transcript-scraper
Get YouTube captions, timestamped quotations, SRT/VTT and translated transcripts for videos, channels and playlists through the harshmaur/youtube-transcript-scraper Apify Actor.
foundry-hosted-agent-validation
Step-by-step process for validating a Python Foundry hosted agent sample (under python/samples/04-hosting/foundry-hosted-agents/) end to end — running it locally (native runtime and azd ai agent run) and after deploying it to an Azure AI Foundry project with azd. Use this when asked to validate a hosted agent sample.
skill-doc-delivery
Convert markdown to DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, PDF office documents — use when you need exportable deliverables.