Apache Tika is a toolkit that reads many kinds of files and extracts their text and descriptive metadata, including from formats such as PDF, PowerPoint, and Excel. Applications and agent pipelines use it to turn documents into content they can process, search, or pass to language models. The catalogue skills provide reusable ways for coding agents to run Tika for file-to-Markdown extraction.
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.
npx skills add apache/tika --skill feature-workflowgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/apache/tikaWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/apache/tika/feature-workflow)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/apache/tika/feature-workflow"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/apache/tika/feature-workflow/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/apache/tika/feature-workflow"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/apache/tika/feature-workflow.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- medium Rogue Agent · line 5 Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
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 | $0.00077 | $0.01102 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00031 | $0.00441 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00015 | $0.00220 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00110 |
Grade A, and why
feature-workflow 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 1mo 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 107 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Local override: $TIKA_SKILLS_LOCAL/feature-workflow/LOCAL.md (default ~/.tika-skills),
read after this file, wins on conflict.
Feature Workflow: spike, contract, cut, ship
A complex feature's shape is learned by building it. Learning it on the PR costs a review round per lesson and reshapes what the next round reviews. Keep learning and shipping on different branches.
1. Spike
Throwaway branch. Build end to end, roughly: no CHANGES, docs, or polish;
change neighbors freely. Review it (.skills/devs/pr-review/SKILL.md) and let
findings reshape interfaces.
Exit: the last review changed edge-case handling, not an interface. While reviews still rename, split, or add methods, keep spiking (pr-review verdict "still spiking").
2. Contract
Write down what the spike taught, half a page per lifecycle object (open/close, acquire/release, publish/abort, spill, rewind): states and transitions, each method's behavior per state, resource ownership on success and every failure path, threading. Put it in the type's javadoc.
Encode it as an Abstract<Type>ContractTest every implementation extends:
close twice, abort then close, write after close, throw mid-write then close,
resources released on both paths. This is what makes review converge.
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.
- 1mo ago Changed · +27 lines 5d3aad875a21
- 1mo ago First seen · 80 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A 60f0be4301e3
feature-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository apache/tika (4,096 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 1,102 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.
Other skills, from other repositories
pr-checklist
Use when opening or finalizing a GitHub PR for OpenMetadata. Walks through the repo PR template — linked issue, high-level design (for big PRs), unit/integration/Playwright tests + coverage, UI screen recording, and manual test steps — then drafts a fully-filled PR body and (optionally) creates the PR.
java-affected-tests
Use before opening or updating an OpenMetadata PR that changes Java, a JSON schema, an index mapping, a SQL migration, seed data or a pom — PR CI no longer runs the Java integration tests (they run only in the merge queue) and the JavaUIIT/search-it suites run only nightly, so this selects the unit tests and…
java-checkstyle
Run mvn spotless:apply to fix Java checkstyle / formatting failures and verify the result. Invoke after authoring or modifying any .java files, or when CI reports a "Java checkstyle failed" or "Fix Java checkstyle" issue on a PR.
conventional-commit-message
Generate high-quality Conventional Commit messages for repositories using conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits.
pdf-processing
Extract text from PDFs, fill forms, and merge documents.
release-notes
Update CHANGELOG.md and README.md for an Azure SDK for Java package based on a GitHub PR. Use when the user wants to write or update release notes, changelogs, or readme docs from a PR reference.