very-long-text-summarization

very-long-text-summarization is a skill for Claude Code from curiositech/some_claude_skills. It costs 129 tokens per session (2,132 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for understanding books, handbooks, biographies, research collections, and codebases that are too large to fit into one reading session or AI context. It creates organized knowledge maps and indexed summaries.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to study long documents, understand a large codebase’s architecture, compare research papers, or extract recurring expertise from biographies and memoirs.
Why use it?
It reduces the work of finding important ideas across very large bodies of text. It also preserves structure and connections that a short summary might miss.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to study long documents, understand a large codebase’s architecture, compare research papers, or extract recurring expertise from biographies and memoirs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/curiositech/some_claude_skills/very-long-text-summarization
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 curiositech/some_claude_skills --skill very-long-text-summarization
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/curiositech/some_claude_skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 129 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,132 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 $0.00129 $0.02132
Opus 5 $0.00064 $0.01066
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00426
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00213

Measured 8d ago against content hash 8fd3de632092, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

very-long-text-summarization 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 8d 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.

.claude/skills/very-long-text-summarization/SKILL.md · 229 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 229 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Very Long Text Summarization

Processes texts too large for a single context window using hierarchical multi-pass extraction with armies of cheap models. Produces structured knowledge maps, indexed summaries, and skill drafts — not just prose compression.


When to Use

Use for:

  • Professional handbooks and textbooks (100-1000+ pages)
  • Career biographies and memoirs (extracting expertise patterns)
  • Large codebases (architecture-level understanding)
  • Research paper collections (synthesizing findings across papers)
  • Any text exceeding a single context window (~100K tokens)

NOT for:

  • Short documents (<10 pages) — just read them directly
  • Real-time conversation summarization (use auto-compact patterns)
  • Code documentation generation (use technical-writer)
  • Simple TL;DR requests (not worth the multi-pass overhead)

Architecture: Three-Pass Hierarchical Extraction

flowchart TD
  D[Document] --> C[Chunk into segments]
  C --> P1["Pass 1: Haiku army\n(parallel extraction)"]
  P1 --> I[Intermediate summaries]
  I --> P2["Pass 2: Sonnet synthesis\n(merge + structure)"]
  P2 --> S[Structured knowledge map]
  S --> P3["Pass 3: Opus refinement\n(optional, for skill drafts)"]
  P3 --> O[Final output]

Pass 1: Chunked Extraction (Haiku Army)

Split the document into overlapping chunks (~4K tokens each, 500 token overlap). Deploy one Haiku call per chunk in parallel. Each extracts:

extraction_template:
  summary: "2-3 sentence summary of this section"
  key_claims: ["list of factual claims or assertions"]
  processes: ["any step-by-step procedures described"]
  decisions: ["any decision points or heuristics mentioned"]
  failures: ["any failures, mistakes, or anti-patterns described"]
  aha_moments: ["any insights, realizations, or conceptual breakthroughs"]
  metaphors: ["any metaphors or mental models used"]
  temporal: ["any 'things changed when...' or 'before X, after Y' patterns"]
  quotes: ["notable direct quotes worth preserving"]
  references: ["any citations, links, or cross-references"]

Read the full file on GitHub · 229 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 8d ago First seen · 229 lines · 129 tokens per session scan A 8fd3de632092

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very-long-text-summarization is a skill published in the GitHub repository curiositech/some_claude_skills (221 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 129 tokens to every session and 2,132 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 2026-09-03.

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