extract-document-insights

extract-document-insights is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Abilityai/cornelius. It costs 32 tokens per session (565 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for extracting findings, theories, and hypotheses from outside documents such as research papers, books, and articles.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to process a document or transcript, check it against existing knowledge, and save the results in a named session folder.
Why use it?
It organizes external research and records whether each extracted idea is confirmed, theoretical, or speculative.

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/abilityai/cornelius/extract-document-insights
Any agent
npx skills add Abilityai/cornelius --skill extract-document-insights
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Abilityai/cornelius

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 565 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 5.1 $0.00032 $0.00565
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00282
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00113
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00056

Measured 5d ago against content hash e3cedc6ab9de, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

extract-document-insights scanned grade A with 0 findings 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 5d ago.

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.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/skills/extract-document-insights/SKILL.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Extract Document Insights

Extract insights from EXTERNAL documents with proper epistemic classification.

Purpose

User-invocable wrapper that spawns the document-insight-extractor subagent to:

  • Extract research findings, theoretical frameworks, hypotheses
  • Classify epistemic status (confirmed, theoretical, speculative)
  • Store in session-based folders
  • Deduplicate against existing knowledge base
  • Save to Brain/Document Insights/[session]/

When to Use

  • Analyzing research papers, academic articles
  • Processing books or book chapters
  • Extracting insights from web articles, reports
  • Any EXTERNAL content (not your personal thoughts)

NOT for personal content - use /extract-insights for your conversations, transcripts.

Usage

/extract-document-insights "2025-02-21 Ancient Wisdom Research" /path/to/document.md
/extract-document-insights "AI Agent Papers" "the transcript above"

Session name is REQUIRED - describes the research session for organization.

Process

  1. Parse arguments to extract session name and source

  2. Spawn document-insight-extractor subagent via Task tool with:

    Task(
      subagent_type="document-insight-extractor",
      prompt="Extract insights from: [source] into session '[session-name]'. Follow your mandatory workflow - contextualize, classify epistemically, search duplicates, create notes, update changelog."
    )
    
  3. Report results - number of insights extracted, session folder path

  4. Suggest insight interview - Present to user:

    "[N] insights from [source] saved to Brain/Document Insights/[session]/.

    Before these get indexed, consider running /insight-interview [topic] to capture your own angles - where you agree, disagree, or see connections the research missed. Your responses save to Brain/AI Extracted Notes/ and both sets will be available for the next connection discovery run.

    Run /insight-interview [topic] to continue, or skip if you want to index these as-is."

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 lines

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. 5d ago First seen · 65 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A e3cedc6ab9de

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extract-document-insights is a skill published in the GitHub repository Abilityai/cornelius (106 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 565 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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