paper2slides
Turn an academic paper PDF into a presentation deck (.pptx) end-to-end. Use this skill whenever the user wants to \"make slides from a paper\", \"generate a deck from this PDF\", \"make a PPT from this paper\", \"generate slides from a PDF document\", \"make a deck from a research paper\", or supplies a research paper PDF and asks for a .pptx out. Trigger even when the user only says \"deck this paper\" or \"summarize as slides\". This is the dedicated, self-contained skill for academic-paper-to-deck flows.
npx skills add QuZhan51496/paper2anything --skill paper2slides --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# 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_p
- Quick Reference
- Invocation Contract
- Pipeline
- Stage 0.5 — Configure (you, AskUserQuestion to confirm three items)
- Stage 1 — Extract (script)
- Stage 2 — Outline (you)
- Stage 3 — Spec (you)
- Stage 4 — Render (script)
- Stage 5 — QA
- Defaults & Errors
- Default behavior
- Error-Recovery Quick Reference
- QA
- Where to Look When Stuck
conda run -n paper2anything --no-capture-output python -m scripts.workdir resolve \ set -a; source <paper2anything package root>/.env; set +a # export the unified .env (includes MINERU_API_TOKEN) conda run -n paper2anything --no-capture-output python -m scripts.parse_pdf <paper.pdf> conda run -n paper2anything --no-capture-output python -c \ conda run -n paper2anything --no-capture-output python -m scripts.page_screenshot \ conda run -n paper2anything --no-capture-output python -m scripts.render_pptx \
What does the paper2slides skill do?
Turn an academic paper PDF into a presentation deck (.pptx) end-to-end. Use this skill whenever the user wants to \"make slides from a paper\", \"generate a deck from this PDF\", \"make a PPT from this paper\", \"generate slides from a PDF document\", \"make a deck from a research paper\", or supplies a research paper PDF and asks for a .pptx out. Trigger even when the user only says \"deck this paper\" or \"summarize as slides\". This is the dedicated, self-contained skill for academic-paper-to-deck flows.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add QuZhan51496/paper2anything --skill paper2slides --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From QuZhan51496/paper2anything, a repository with 333 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.