What is from-pdf-skill-builder?

A tool for turning one or more PDF documents into a Claude Code skill, using page images to capture text, diagrams, and structure. Claude Code is a programming assistant that can use these skills as instructions.

Use it to create a structured skill from technical manuals, regulations, magazines, books, or similar PDFs, with chapters, diagrams, and navigation.

It helps preserve important information from manuals, policies, certificates, books, and other reference documents in a form an agent can use. Page-by-page extraction can include diagrams that ordinary text extraction may miss.

from-pdf-skill-builder — Skill by bentsolheim/public-skills

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 bentsolheim/public-skills --skill from-pdf-skill-builder

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bentsolheim/public-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bentsolheim/public-skills/from-pdf-skill-builder/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/bentsolheim/public-skills/from-pdf-skill-builder)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/bentsolheim/public-skills/from-pdf-skill-builder"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bentsolheim/public-skills/from-pdf-skill-builder/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.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/bentsolheim/public-skills/from-pdf-skill-builder"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bentsolheim/public-skills/from-pdf-skill-builder.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 123 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 3,211 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.

Origin unknown 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	$0.00123	$0.03211
Opus 5.5	$0.00049	$0.01284
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00025	$0.00642
Haiku 4.5	$0.00012	$0.00321

Measured 2mo ago against content hash eaeb2fe896f5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

from-pdf-skill-builder 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 2mo 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/from-pdf-skill-builder/SKILL.md · 250 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

Read it on GitHub

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.

2mo ago First seen · 250 lines · 123 tokens per session scan A eaeb2fe896f5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

from-pdf-skill-builder is a skill published in the GitHub repository bentsolheim/public-skills (10 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 123 tokens to every session and 3,211 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.

Documents PDF bash best-practices claude

from-pdf-skill-builder next to 6 skills from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
from-pdf-skill-builderbentsolheim/public-skills	Skill	10	2mo ago	none	A	123	Claude Code, Codex
org-reportfabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall	Skill	5	yesterday	MIT	A	89	Claude Code, Codex
docx-to-pdffabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall	Skill	5	yesterday	MIT	A	36	Claude Code, Codex
md-to-pdffabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall	Skill	5	yesterday	MIT	A	17	Claude Code, Codex
rtl-persian-pdfmamahoos/dot-files	Skill	5	3d ago	MIT	A	60	Claude Code, Cursor
apify-youtube-transcript-scrapersickn33/agentic-awesome-skills	Skill	49k	yesterday	MIT	A	48	Claude Code
foundry-hosted-agent-validationmicrosoft/agent-framework	Skill	15k	yesterday	MIT	A	82	Claude Code, Codex