read

read is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from 7xmohamed/Kata. It costs 57 tokens per session (923 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool that fetches web pages and PDFs and turns them into clean Markdown, a plain-text format for structured documents. It uses different retrieval methods for sites such as GitHub, X, paywalled pages, JavaScript-heavy pages, and PDFs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to read URLs or local PDFs, extract their content, and save the result as a Markdown file. It is intended for external sources, not local text files or code already in the repository.
Why use it?
It provides a consistent way to obtain source content when a page is difficult to access or parse directly. It can also save the retrieved material for later use.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/7xmohamed/kata/read
Any agent
npx skills add 7xmohamed/Kata --skill read
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/7xmohamed/Kata

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin read/plugin install read after adding the marketplace above.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for read

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/7xmohamed/kata/read.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/7xmohamed/kata/read)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/7xmohamed/kata/read"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/7xmohamed/kata/read.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 923 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00057 $0.00923
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00462
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00185
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00092

Measured 4d ago against content hash 1f9f6680b6ff, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

read scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/fetch.sh), 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

2. Create `~/Downloads/{title}-images/` and curl each URL in parallel (`&` + `wait`). Use the same proxy env vars as the fetch step.
skills/read/SKILL.md · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Read: Fetch the Ground Truth

Prefix your first line with ⚔️ inline, not as its own paragraph.

Convert any URL or local PDF to clean Markdown and save it. No analysis, no summary, no discussion of the content unless explicitly asked.

Routing

Input Method
.pdf URL or local PDF path PDF extraction
GitHub URLs (github.com, raw.githubusercontent.com) Prefer raw content or gh first. Use the proxy cascade only as fallback.
x.com, twitter.com Proxy cascade (r.jina.ai keeps image URLs). Do not try WebFetch; it 402s.
Everything else Proxy cascade

After routing, load references/read-methods.md and run the commands for the chosen method.

Output Format

Title:  {title}
Author: {author} (if available)
Source: {platform}
URL:    {original url}

Content
{full Markdown, truncated at 200 lines if long}

Saving

Save to ~/Downloads/{title}.md with YAML frontmatter by default. Skip only if user says "just preview" or "don't save". Tell the user the saved path.

If ~/Downloads/{title}.md already exists, append -1, -2, etc., to the filename. Never overwrite an existing file without explicit confirmation.

Images

By default only save Markdown. Download images only when the user explicitly asks: "download images" or "save images".

When asked, after saving the Markdown:

  1. Extract image URLs: grep -oE 'https?://[^ )"]+\.(jpg|jpeg|png|webp|gif)' {md_path} | sort -u
  2. Create ~/Downloads/{title}-images/ and curl each URL in parallel (& + wait). Use the same proxy env vars as the fetch step.
  3. Report the count and folder path. If any download fails, list the failed URLs.

Hard Rules

  • Do not summarize or analyze the content. Your job is conversion and storage, not interpretation.
  • Never overwrite without confirmation. If the target filename already exists, use an auto-incremented suffix.
  • Stop after the save report. Do not suggest follow-up actions unless the user asks.

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 4d ago First seen · 85 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 1f9f6680b6ff

Subscribe to this mod's changes

read is a skill published in the GitHub repository 7xmohamed/Kata (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 923 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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