Our AI co-author, from research problem to final publication.

ResearchStudio is a collection of skills covering the entire research lifecycle — from an under-specified research direction to a published paper. The skills run on Claude Code and Codex.

Presenting an all-in-one interactive reel.

IdeaSpark runs the full pipeline end-to-end.

[2026-09-15] release pptx2video is now open source — turn editable PowerPoint slides into narrated videos with animations and captions. Use it as a skill or run the CLI without an LLM.

[2026-08-25] release Trending Paper is released — meet the trending research through ResearchStudio Reels.

[2026-08-13] feature IdeaSpark keeps the whole user query — the user query is persisted verbatim and read by every phase that reasons about intent; papers named in it without a link are resolved and deep-read; and a stated solution direction reaches idea selection, which must record whether it followed or departed from that direction, and why.

[2026-07-08] release ResearchStudio-Reel is released — the post-paper half: turn a finished paper PDF into the artifacts a publication needs — a print-ready poster, a narrated walkthrough video, a bilingual blog post, and an interactive reel viewer.

[2026-07-03] release ResearchStudio-Idea is released — the pre-paper half: turn an under-specified research direction into a reviewer-defensible, implementable idea, grounded in an empirical taxonomy induced from a large-scale corpus of ICLR / ICML / NeurIPS submissions.

Quick Start

We recommend creating an isolated environment first, using either conda or uv:

conda create -n researchstudio "python>=3.10" -y conda activate researchstudio

Option 2 — uv:

uv venv --python 3.10 source .venv/bin/activate

For Windows PowerShell:

.venv\Scripts\Activate.ps1

Then pick one of the two install paths below:

Option 1 — clone and run install.sh (installs native tools, Python deps, symlinks the skills from a local clone and scaffolds .env):

git clone https://github.com/microsoft/ResearchStudio.git && cd ResearchStudio bash install.sh

Option 2 — interactive npx installer (choose which plugins to install, enter your API keys when prompted, and it writes .env):

npx github:microsoft/ResearchStudio

For usage, see Idea and Reel. We recommend using these skills with model versions $\ge$ claude-opus-4.6 or gpt-5.5.

If ResearchStudio helps your research workflow, please cite: