text-parser

text-parser is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from benchflow-ai/skillsbench. It costs 11 tokens per session (248 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for parsing structured text files made of simple key-value lines, such as “Name: John Smith.” It shows how to turn those lines into data that a program can use.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to read form-like text, extract fields such as names and email addresses, and prepare values for filling documents.
Why use it?
It removes repetitive manual handling of common text forms and helps keep extracted fields consistent.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

About the project

SkillsBench is a benchmark for measuring how effectively AI agents use modular skills—folders containing instructions, scripts, and resources—to complete specialized tasks. It helps researchers and developers evaluate both skill quality and agent behavior, including tasks that require combining multiple skills. The catalogue’s skills and instructions are evaluated as part of this workflow.

benchflow-ai/skillsbench · 1,747 stars · on GitHub

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/benchflow-ai/skillsbench/text-parser
Any agent
npx skills add benchflow-ai/skillsbench --skill text-parser
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/benchflow-ai/skillsbench

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 11 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 248 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 $0.00011 $0.00248
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00124
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00050
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00025

Measured 2d ago against content hash 42da49f3d8f0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

text-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 2d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

tasks/edit-pdf/environment/skills/text-parser/SKILL.md · 54 lines

What it actually says

Text Parser Skill

Overview

Parse structured text files to extract data for filling PDFs.

Key-Value Parsing

def parse_input(text):
    """Parse key-value pairs from text."""
    data = {}
    for line in text.strip().split('\n'):
        if ':' in line:
            # Remove leading dash/bullet if present
            line = line.lstrip('- ').strip()
            key, value = line.split(':', 1)
            data[key.strip()] = value.strip()
    return data

# Usage
with open("input.txt") as f:
    content = f.read()

data = parse_input(content)
# data["Name"] -> "John Smith"
# data["Email"] -> "[email protected]"

Common Input Formats

- Name: John Smith
- Email: [email protected]
- Phone: 555-1234

Or without dashes:

Name: John Smith
Email: [email protected]

Tips

  • Read the entire input file first
  • Match field names to PDF labels
  • Handle special instructions
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. 2d ago First seen · 54 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A 42da49f3d8f0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

text-parser is a skill published in the GitHub repository benchflow-ai/skillsbench (1,747 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 248 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.