nano-pdf

nano-pdf is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from emanueleielo/ciana-parrot. It costs 36 tokens per session (401 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line tool for editing PDF pages and slide decks from plain-language instructions, using Google Gemini. It can also add slides and use other pages as visual references.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to change page text or charts, add slides, apply a page's visual style, or make the same edit across several pages.
Why use it?
It removes the need to manually edit individual PDF pages in a graphics or presentation application. It requires a Gemini API key and changes the original file, so a copy may be needed first.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to change page text or charts, add slides, apply a page's visual style, or make the same edit across several pages.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/emanueleielo/ciana-parrot/nano-pdf
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 emanueleielo/ciana-parrot --skill nano-pdf
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/emanueleielo/ciana-parrot

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 401 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 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 $0.00036 $0.00401
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00200
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00080
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00040

Measured 12d ago against content hash 649123e0cfa9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nano-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 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/nano-pdf/SKILL.md · 55 lines

What it actually says

Nano PDF

Edit PDF files using natural language instructions, powered by Google Gemini.

When to Use

  • "Update this slide to include 2025 data"
  • "Change the title on page 3"
  • "Add an agenda slide to this deck"
  • "Edit this PDF to fix the chart"
  • Any natural-language PDF editing request

Edit a Page

nano-pdf edit document.pdf 2 "Change the title to 'Q4 Results'"

Arguments: edit <file> <page_number> "<instruction>"

Add a New Slide

nano-pdf add presentation.pdf 0 "Agenda slide with: Overview, Financial Results, Outlook"

Inserts at position 0 (beginning). Use page count to append at end.

Edit with Style Reference

nano-pdf edit document.pdf 5 "Add a summary section" --style-pages 1,2

Uses pages 1-2 as visual style reference for consistent design.

Batch Edit Multiple Pages

nano-pdf edit report.pdf 1-5 "Update the footer to say 'Confidential 2026'"

Notes

  • Requires GEMINI_API_KEY with billing enabled (Gemini 3 Pro Image)
  • Uses Poppler to convert PDF pages to images for processing
  • Non-destructive: preserves searchable text layer via OCR re-hydration
  • Output overwrites the original file — make a copy first if needed
  • Works best with slide decks and visually structured PDFs
  • For basic PDF operations (merge, split, rotate) without AI, use python3 with pypdf
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 · 55 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 649123e0cfa9

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nano-pdf is a skill published in the GitHub repository emanueleielo/ciana-parrot (77 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 401 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 2026-08-30.

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