A PDF data extractor for Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), which report the life-cycle environmental impacts of building products. It turns information from one or more EPD PDFs into structured records.

Use it to extract global-warming impact, life-cycle stages, certifications, and other reported metrics for comparison, specifications, or LEED documentation.

It removes the need to copy environmental metrics manually from differently formatted PDF declarations.

epd-parser — Skill for Claude Code by AlpacaLabsLLC

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.

Any agent

npx skills add AlpacaLabsLLC/skills-for-architects --skill epd-parser

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlpacaLabsLLC/skills-for-architects

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install as, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 46 skills, 7 agents, 3 hooks.

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.

README.md

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 2,748 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits

NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026

How audits are shown

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00040	$0.02748
Opus 5	$0.00020	$0.01374
Sonnet 5	$0.00008	$0.00550
Haiku 4.5	$0.00004	$0.00275

Measured 10d ago against content hash 1a698d93b52d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

epd-parser 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 10d 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.

skills/epd-parser/SKILL.md · 199 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 199 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/as:epd-parser — EPD PDF Parser

Harness note: use /as:<skill> on Claude Code and $<skill> on Codex. Resolve <skill-root> as the directory containing this loaded SKILL.md and <plugin-root> as the plugin root that contains skills/, and use equivalent native tools when host tool names differ.

Extract structured environmental impact data from EPD (Environmental Product Declaration) PDF files. Uses PyMuPDF for text extraction and Claude's reasoning to parse varying EPD formats into a standardized 42-column schema.

EPDs follow ISO 14025 / ISO 21930 / EN 15804 and report life cycle environmental impacts of building products. This skill reads those PDFs and structures the data for comparison, specification, and LEED documentation.

Input

The user provides EPD PDFs in one of these ways:

File paths — one or more PDF file paths
Folder path — a directory containing PDFs (will process all .pdf files)
Just invoked — ask the user for file paths or a folder

Output Schema

Use the canonical 42-column contract in schema/epd-schema.md. It is separate from the 33-column FF&E product schema. Never substitute or persist an FF&E-shaped record as EPD data. Leave unavailable values empty and use a plain URL for EPD Link.

Material Category Vocabulary

Use ONE normalized term: Concrete, Steel, Aluminum, Wood/Timber, Insulation, Gypsum, Glass, Ceramic/Tile, Carpet, Resilient Flooring, Roofing Membrane, Sealant, Paint/Coating, Masonry, Stone, Composite Panel, Acoustic, Cladding, Rebar, Cement, Aggregate, Furniture, Other.

EPD-specific data in Notes (col AO)

EPDs contain fields that don't have dedicated columns. Append these to Notes:

EPD Type: Type: Product-specific or Type: Industry-average or Type: Sector
Verification: Verified by: [verifier name]
EN version: EN 15804+A1 or EN 15804+A2 (important for comparability)
Source File: Source: holcim-readymix-epd.pdf
LCA Software: LCA: GaBi or LCA: SimaPro or LCA: openLCA
Biogenic carbon note: If the EPD reports biogenic carbon storage separately

Read the full file on GitHub · 199 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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.

README.md 1.8 KB

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.

10d ago First seen · 199 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 1a698d93b52d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

epd-parser is a skill published in the GitHub repository AlpacaLabsLLC/skills-for-architects (348 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 2,748 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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