paper2slides

paper2slides is a skill for Claude Code from QuZhan51496/paper2anything. It costs 120 tokens per session (3,853 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A process for turning an academic paper PDF into a presentation file. It extracts the paper, builds a slide outline, designs each slide, renders a .pptx file, and checks the result.

In plain words
What is it for?
Extracting paper content and figures, planning the story, specifying slide layouts, generating PowerPoint files, and performing visual quality checks.
Why use it?
It helps convert dense research into a structured deck without manually copying text, figures, equations, and results into presentation slides.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Good fit Extracting paper content and figures, planning the story, specifying slide layouts, generating PowerPoint files, and performing visual quality checks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/quzhan51496/paper2anything/paper2slides
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add QuZhan51496/paper2anything --skill paper2slides
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/QuZhan51496/paper2anything

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 120 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,853 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 3 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 Privilege Escalation · line 93
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • medium Output Handling · line 142
    Output size or generation rate is not bounded. Unbounded output enables denial-of-service through resource exhaustion, log flooding, or context-window stuffing.
    Fix: Set explicit limits on output length, generation count, and rate. Use max_tokens and truncation to prevent unbounded output.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 176
    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.
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 $0.00120 $0.03853
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.01927
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00771
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00385

Measured 10d ago against content hash 87e3341daeaa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper2slides 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 9 executable files (scripts/__init__.py, scripts/lib/__init__.py, scripts/lib/mineru_client.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

paper2slides/SKILL.md · 223 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 223 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

paper2slides

Turn an academic paper PDF into a presentation-ready .pptx. This is a conductor skill: you make the editorial and design judgments, while the mechanical steps are handled by this skill's own self-contained scripts — PDF parsing via the MinerU cloud API (scripts/parse_pdf.py) and .pptx rendering via a PptxGenJS bridge (scripts/render_pptx.py). It orchestrates a "paper → outline → spec → render → QA" pipeline and depends on no other skill.

Quick Reference

Stage Input Output Owner
0.5. configure user dialogue <workdir>/config.json you (AskUserQuestion to confirm three items: length tier + whether to run visual QA + color scheme)
1. extract paper.pdf paper_meta.json + figures_index.json + figures/ + pages/ + equations + hi-res figure/table crops (produced in one shot by the MinerU cloud API) scripts/parse_pdf.py
2. outline paper_meta.json slide_outline.json you (per references/outline-heuristics.md)
3. spec slide_outline.json + figures slide_spec.json you (per references/design-style.md)
4. render slide_spec.json output.pptx scripts/render_pptx.py (PptxGenJS bridge)
5. qa output.pptx pass / fail + fix list content QA always runs; visual QA is gated by Stage 0.5's config.json/visual_qa

See references/pipeline.md for the detailed per-stage protocol.

Invocation Contract

Invocation form:

/paper2slides <paper.pdf> [output.pptx] [--from-stage <name>] [--force]
  • output.pptx omitted → <paper-dir>/<paper-stem>_slides/<paper-stem>.pptx; on a name collision the directory auto-appends _v2 _v3
  • Intermediate artifacts land in <paper-dir>/.paper2anything/slides/<paper-stem>/; when the paper directory is read-only, fall back to ~/.cache/paper2anything/slides/

Python environment: all scripts run in the paper2anything conda environment. Command prefix conda run -n paper2anything --no-capture-output python -m scripts.<name> ... (the prefix can be omitted once conda activate paper2anything is in effect). Every -m scripts.<name> must be run from this skill's directory (the parent of scripts/), otherwise you get No module named 'scripts'; the prefix-omission convention is in references/pipeline.md §General Conventions.

Read the full file on GitHub · 223 lines

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. 10d ago First seen · 223 lines · 120 tokens per session scan A 87e3341daeaa

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paper2slides is a skill published in the GitHub repository QuZhan51496/paper2anything (416 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 120 tokens to every session and 3,853 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-30.

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