pdf

pdf is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from EldanRing/qubicl. It costs 45 tokens per session (387 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A skill for working with PDF files using Qubicl's local document tools. PDF is a fixed-layout document format commonly used for forms, reports, and printable files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create, inspect, edit, merge, split, fill, watermark, secure, render, or validate PDF files.
Why use it?
It provides procedures and commands for handling common PDF tasks while keeping inspection and output steps consistent. It also supports checking layout by rendering pages as images.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

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/eldanring/qubicl/pdf
Any agent
npx skills add EldanRing/qubicl --skill pdf
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/EldanRing/qubicl

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.

agentmods badge for pdf

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/eldanring/qubicl/pdf.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/eldanring/qubicl/pdf)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/eldanring/qubicl/pdf"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/eldanring/qubicl/pdf.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 387 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 5.1 $0.00045 $0.00387
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00193
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00077
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00039

Measured 6d ago against content hash 320e0cb13f88, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pdf 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 6d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 13 executable files (scripts/_raster.py, scripts/pdf_create.py, scripts/pdf_fill_form.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/core/pdf/SKILL.md · 26 lines

What it actually says

PDF workflows

Use Qubicl file tools to inspect inputs and save outputs under /home/qubicl. Use exec_command for the deterministic helpers bundled with this skill. Obtain this package's resourceRoot from skill_view; do not assume a client-specific skill directory.

The curated browser, computer, and workstation images provide the declared Python libraries plus Poppler. Run helpers through /opt/qubicl/skills-venv/bin/python. If a dependency is absent, report that the current preset does not support the operation; do not install packages automatically.

Common helpers beneath <resourceRoot>/scripts/:

  • pdf_read.py FILE --text|--tables|--meta|--fields
  • pdf_create.py SPEC.json -o OUTPUT.pdf
  • pdf_merge.py INPUT... -o OUTPUT.pdf
  • pdf_split.py FILE --pages 1-3,5 -o OUTPUT.pdf
  • pdf_page_image.py FILE --out-dir DIR
  • pdf_make_form.py SPEC.json -o OUTPUT.pdf
  • pdf_fill_form.py FILE --fields-json VALUES.json -o OUTPUT.pdf
  • pdf_stamp.py, pdf_watermark.py, pdf_meta.py, and pdf_secure.py

Read references/forms.md only for AcroForm work.

For inspection, extract text first and render representative pages when layout matters. Use take_screenshot only for the live desktop; use generated page images for document QA. Verify important outputs by reopening them with a read helper and, when visual fidelity matters, by rendering pages. Never overwrite the only input copy unless the user explicitly requests in-place editing.

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. 6d ago First seen · 26 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 320e0cb13f88

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pdf is a skill published in the GitHub repository EldanRing/qubicl (4 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 387 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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