from-pdf-skill-builder

from-pdf-skill-builder is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from bentsolheim/public-skills. It costs 123 tokens per session (3,211 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

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.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a structured skill from technical manuals, regulations, magazines, books, or similar PDFs, with chapters, diagrams, and navigation.
Why use it?
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.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

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

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bentsolheim/public-skills/from-pdf-skill-builder
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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00123 $0.03211
Opus 5 $0.00062 $0.01605
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00642
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00321

Measured 12d ago against content hash eaeb2fe896f5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 12d 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

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

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.

  1. 12d 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 15d ago), with no licence file. It adds 123 tokens to every session and 3,211 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-31.

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