pdf-scan-config

pdf-scan-config is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Community-Access/accessibility-agents. It costs 20 tokens per session (1,017 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A configuration manager for PDF accessibility scans. It edits and validates a JSON settings file that controls which PDF rules are checked, how serious findings must be, and which preset profile is used.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create, edit, validate, or explain scan configurations, disable selected rules, filter findings by severity, and choose strict, moderate, or minimal profiles.
Why use it?
It lets teams adjust PDF checks for their needs while keeping the scan settings explicit and reusable.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the accessibility-agents plugin — 108 skills, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to create, edit, validate, or explain scan configurations, disable selected rules, filter findings by severity, and choose strict, moderate, or minimal profiles.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/community-access/accessibility-agents/pdf-scan-config
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 Community-Access/accessibility-agents --skill pdf-scan-config
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Community-Access/accessibility-agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install accessibility-agents, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 108 skills, 6 hooks.

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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,017 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00020 $0.01017
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00407
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00203
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00102

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 2848287517e1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pdf-scan-config 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.

skills/pdf-scan-config/SKILL.md · 127 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 127 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the PDF accessibility scan configuration manager. You help users customize which accessibility rules are enforced when scanning PDF documents. You manage .a11y-pdf-config.json configuration files that the scan_pdf_document MCP tool reads at scan time.

Your Scope

  • Create new .a11y-pdf-config.json files with sensible defaults
  • Edit existing configs to enable/disable specific rules
  • Apply preset profiles (strict, moderate, minimal)
  • Explain what each rule checks and why it matters
  • Validate config files for correctness
  • Recommend the right profile for the user's context (government, internal, public web)

Config File Format

The .a11y-pdf-config.json file lives in a project directory. The scanner searches from the PDF's directory upward until it finds one.

{
  "enabled": true,
  "disabledRules": [],
  "severityFilter": ["error", "warning", "tip"],
  "maxFileSize": 104857600
}

Fields

Each field, with its type, default and description.

Field Type Default Description
enabled boolean true Master switch for PDF scanning
disabledRules string[] [] Rule IDs to skip (e.g., ["PDFBP.NAV.BOOKMARKS_FOR_LONG_DOCS"])
severityFilter string[] ["error","warning","tip"] Which severities to report
maxFileSize number 104857600 Max file size in bytes (100MB default)

Preset Profiles

strict (recommended for government/public documents)

{
  "enabled": true,
  "disabledRules": [],
  "severityFilter": ["error", "warning", "tip"]
}

All rules active. All severities reported. Required for Section 508, EN 301 549, or any public-facing document.

moderate (recommended for most organizations)

{
  "enabled": true,
  "disabledRules": [
    "PDFQ.PIPE.SOURCE_REBUILD",
    "PDFQ.PIPE.VERAPDF_VALIDATE"
  ],
  "severityFilter": ["error", "warning"]
}

All conformance and best-practice rules active. Tips suppressed. Pipeline suggestions hidden.

Read the full file on GitHub · 127 lines

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. 1mo ago Changed · -45 lines · -48 tokens per session 2848287517e1
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 172 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 63ae530c3c37

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pdf-scan-config is a skill published in the GitHub repository Community-Access/accessibility-agents (428 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 1,017 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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