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Pdf

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anthropics·vlatest·writing

Extracts structured data, insights, and summaries from PDF documents using advanced AI understanding.

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Showing Claude Code. One command installs this skill into any of the agents below.

  1. 1

    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add anthropics/claude-agent-sdk-demos --skill pdf -a claude-code

  2. Uses the open-source skills CLI and needs Node.js. Add -g to install it for your user instead of this project.

What we know about this skill

Publisher

anthropics

Matched to the vendor's own GitHub organisation.

Install target

Live repository

Not pinned. Installing fetches whatever the repository holds at the time you run the command.

No human has reviewed this code. The checks below are a static scan of the files at one commit — nobody has run this skill or judged whether it works. A skill runs with whatever access you give your agent, so read the source before you install it.

Automated safety checks

scanned

This skill passed all 6 checks. We read its files at one commit and looked for the things that make a skill dangerous to run — not for whether it works.

  • Declares what it does: passed

    SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.

    SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.

  • No undeclared network calls: passed

    Makes no network calls.

    Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.

  • No obfuscated payloads: passed

    No encoded or obfuscated payloads.

    No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.

  • No credential access: passed

    Reads no keys, tokens, keychains or credential files.

    Neither the code nor the SKILL.md instructions read SSH keys, cloud credentials, keychains, token stores, browser cookie databases or dotfiles that hold secrets.

  • No pipe-to-shell installers: passed

    No pipe-to-shell or download-and-run installers.

    No `curl … | sh` pattern, in the code or in the instructions, that runs code fetched at run time.

  • Pinned to a commit: passed

    Scanned anthropics/claude-agent-sdk-demos at 826b268506.

    The exact upstream commit SHA that was scanned is recorded, so the result refers to specific bytes.

Commit
826b268506
Manifest
research-agent/.claude/skills/pdf/SKILL.md
Scanned
12 files, 1,426 lines
This is a static scan, not a review. It reads the skill's files; it does not run them, and it cannot tell you whether the skill is any good or whether the code does what its description says. A skill runs with whatever access you give your agent.
What each check looks for →

About this skill

What it does

This skill allows AI agents to process and extract information from PDF documents. It can read text, understand document structure, and potentially answer questions based on the content within a provided PDF file. The agent can then utilize this extracted data for various tasks like summarization or analysis.

When to use it

  • Summarizing research papers: Quickly get the key findings from lengthy academic documents.
  • Extracting data from invoices: Automatically pull relevant information (dates, amounts, etc.) from PDF invoices.
  • Analyzing contracts: Understand the terms and conditions outlined in legal agreements stored as PDFs.
  • Answering questions about reports: Allow users to ask specific questions about a detailed report contained within a PDF.

Key capabilities

  • PDF reading
  • Text extraction
  • Document structure understanding (implied)
  • Question answering (based on content)

Example prompts

  • "Read the attached PDF and summarize the main points."
  • "Extract all dates mentioned in this PDF file."
  • “What are the key risks outlined in the attached contract?”

Tips & gotchas

  • The quality of extracted information depends heavily on the clarity and structure of the original PDF. Scanned documents with poor image quality may yield inaccurate results.