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 paper2reelgit 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/paper2reel)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/researchstudio/paper2reel"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/researchstudio/paper2reel/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/paper2reel"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/researchstudio/paper2reel.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 1 finding, 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 Excessive Agency · line 289 Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 | $0.00043 | $0.04153 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00017 | $0.01661 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00831 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00415 |
Grade A, and why
paper2reel 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 — 423 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
paper2reel - aligned artifact viewer
paper2reel builds a browsing layer over existing artifacts. It does
not replace or mutate paper2poster, ppt-master, paper2blog, or
paper2video outputs.
The key artifact is:
content_alignment.json
It maps the canonical section ids from paper2assets's assets/meta/sections.json to:
- poster DOM targets, usually
[data-section="<id>"]; - slide frame targets, usually one or more slide indexes;
- blog blocks rendered from the same paper2blog content used for final DOCX;
- video clips cut from the same final, Bottom-Bar-subtitled MP4 and timeline used for paper2video delivery.
This sidecar lets a wrapper UI switch between Poster / Slides / Blog and jump to the corresponding location without adding visible engineering tags to the deliverables themselves.
Viewer UX Contract
The user-facing viewer must preserve the original poster as the default screen.
When reel.html first opens, it should show only the poster itself:
no permanent wrapper bar, no tab strip, and no visible instructions outside the
poster. The wrapper controls are discoverable through keyboard shortcuts and
section interactions:
vtoggles the top section menu.htoggles keyboard shortcut help.atoggles the poster's existing audio controls.stoggles fullscreen.dtoggles the poster debug/hover controls.- double-clicking a poster section opens a large modal.
- clicking or double-clicking the poster title opens the full-paper modal.
Method focus cards keep their data-section="method-1"…"method-N" identities.
Use a card's own alignment entry when present; otherwise its hover/double-click
interaction opens the canonical method video, blog, and slides. Highlight the
actual clicked card, including under poster scaling and historical raster
overlays. Do not rename cards or invent subsection clips to make them clickable.
The modal must use the section-media layout: video with baked Bottom Bar subtitles on the left, blog on the right, EN/中文 switching, slide thumbnails below the video, and a draggable splitter. Do not replace this with a Poster / Slides / Video / Blog tabbed viewer. A tabbed viewer is a regression because it drops the section-level interaction contract.
What ships with it
9 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.
- assets/reel-wordmark.png 15 KB
- assets/section_modal_contract.json 2.6 KB
- README.md 6.4 KB
- scripts/build_poster_slides_view.py 112 KB runs code
- scripts/build_reel_from_paper.py 22 KB runs code
- scripts/build_section_media_from_timeline.py 21 KB runs code
- scripts/check_reel_package.py 136 KB runs code
- scripts/reel_downloads.py 32 KB runs code
- scripts/serve_reel.py 8.4 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 Changed · +6 lines 7beb75ac38a7
- 1mo ago First seen · 417 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 1f60d2ac1bce
paper2reel is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/ResearchStudio (3,378 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 4,153 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-30.
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