xiaobei-skill-academic-paper-to-ppt

xiaobei-skill-academic-paper-to-ppt is a skill for Codex from xiao24bei/xiaobei-skill. It costs 101 tokens per session (3,806 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow that turns academic papers, reports, and technical documents into presentation slides, optionally following a supplied PowerPoint template. It creates a written outline, full-slide images, and a PowerPoint file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare thesis-defense presentations, project reports, literature reviews, or technical presentations from uploaded documents.
Why use it?
It removes the need to read a long source document, plan every slide, and assemble the deck by hand. The slides are based on the provided source material.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is --image-dir ./outputs/imagegen/generated_slides \.

Good fit Use it to prepare thesis-defense presentations, project reports, literature reviews, or technical presentations from uploaded documents.

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Install

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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xiao24bei/xiaobei-skill
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xiao24bei/xiaobei-skill/xiaobei-skill-academic-paper-to-ppt

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 101 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,806 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 $0.00101 $0.03806
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.01903
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00761
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00381

Measured 13d ago against content hash 341a8c278778, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

xiaobei-skill-academic-paper-to-ppt 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 13d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/build_ppt_from_images.py, scripts/validate_outputs.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.

skills/xiaobei-skill-academic-paper-to-ppt/SKILL.md · 272 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 272 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

小北在读研 · Academic Paper to PPT

Core Behavior

When this skill is triggered, execute the workflow in this exact order:

  1. Analyze the uploaded source document
  2. If the user provides a PPT/PPTX template, analyze the template's visual style and page structure
  3. Create ppt_outline.md
  4. Generate one complete visual preview scheme based strictly on ppt_outline.md using $imagegen, then immediately display that image inline in the chat
  5. Generate every slide page as a full-page image using $imagegen; immediately display each completed page image inline in the chat before waiting for the whole deck
  6. Create imagegen_manifest.json recording the selected $imagegen generation method and every generated asset
  7. Assemble the generated slide images into a .pptx file where each image fills one complete slide
  8. Validate that required output files exist and match the imagegen manifest

Never skip stages unless the user explicitly requests only one stage.

Strict image-only contract:

  • A final slide image means the whole finished PPT page is baked into one bitmap, including Chinese title, body text, labels, diagrams, tables, and page visual design.
  • The final .pptx must contain one full-slide image per slide and no editable visible text boxes.
  • Background-only slide images are invalid. Do not generate text-free templates, blank layout backgrounds, placeholder panels, blank areas for later text, or editable-text overlays.
  • Prompts for final slide images must not include phrases such as text-free, no readable words, background template, blank areas, editable Chinese text, text to be added later, or equivalent wording.
  • If $imagegen cannot generate complete page images with the required text, retry with shorter full-page prompts or switch to the other allowed $imagegen mode. If complete page images still cannot be produced, stop at image generation and report the failed stage. Do not assemble a fallback PPT.

Chat-visible image contract:

  • Apply this contract to both built-in image_gen and CLI generation. Changing the image backend must not make generated images invisible to the user.
  • Stage 2 produces one visual-scheme image. As soon as it exists, show it in the chat with local-image Markdown using its absolute path, for example ![PPT 视觉方案](/absolute/path/visual_preview.png).
  • During Stage 3, show each completed slide image individually as soon as it is available. Label it briefly as 第 X/N 页, then render that page with its absolute local path. A text-only progress message such as “已生成 6 页” does not satisfy this requirement.
  • Do not wait until all pages finish before showing them. Do not replace per-page visibility with only a contact sheet, folder path, file count, or final PPTX link.
  • In CLI mode, run generation in a monitorable process and poll for newly completed files. After each poll, display every newly completed slide_XX.png individually before continuing to wait. Limited concurrency is allowed, but the chat must expose each completed page rather than hiding the batch until completion.
  • In built-in mode, the tool result may render automatically; still add the brief 第 X/N 页 label and preserve/copy the selected image into the workspace for manifesting and PPT assembly.
  • After all pages are visible, optionally add a complete contact sheet for convenient overview, then provide the final PPTX.

Read the full file on GitHub · 272 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 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.

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. 13d ago First seen · 272 lines · 101 tokens per session scan A 341a8c278778

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xiaobei-skill-academic-paper-to-ppt is a skill published in the GitHub repository xiao24bei/xiaobei-skill (361 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 101 tokens to every session and 3,806 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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