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zhangcurosr·vlatest·writing

Extracts key information, summarizes, and answers questions from PDF documents with high accuracy.

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  1. 1

    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add zhangcurosr/anthropics_skills --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

zhangcurosr

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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 zhangcurosr/anthropics_skills at 69c0b1a067.

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

Commit
69c0b1a067
Manifest
skills/pdf/SKILL.md
Scanned
12 files, 1,778 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.
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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 also summarize sections of PDFs or convert them into other formats.

When to use it

  • Research: Quickly analyze research papers or lengthy reports by having the AI extract key findings.
  • Contract Review: Summarize legal documents or contracts to identify important clauses and terms.
  • Data Extraction: Pull specific data points (e.g., dates, names, figures) from structured PDF forms.
  • Document Summarization: Generate concise summaries of long PDFs for quick comprehension.

Key capabilities

  • PDF text extraction
  • Document structure understanding
  • Question answering based on PDF content
  • PDF summarization

Example prompts

  • "Summarize the key findings in this PDF: [link to PDF]"
  • "What are the main arguments presented in this document? [link to PDF]"
  • "Extract all dates and names from this PDF. [link to PDF]"

Tips & gotchas

  • The skill's performance depends on the quality of the PDF; scanned documents or those with complex formatting may yield less accurate results.
  • Large PDFs might require more processing time.