split-pdf

split-pdf is a skill for Claude Code from franklee16/academic-research-skills. It costs 57 tokens per session (1,581 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A workflow for downloading, splitting, and carefully reading academic PDF papers. It divides long PDFs into four-page sections and produces structured reading notes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to read, review, or summarise academic papers and create organised notes from their PDFs.
Why use it?
It makes long papers easier to process in small batches and helps avoid shallow summaries or context limits. The description does not specify which academic fields it supports.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to read, review, or summarise academic papers and create organised notes from their PDFs.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/franklee16/academic-research-skills/split-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 franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill split-pdf
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/franklee16/academic-research-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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 split-pdf

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/franklee16/academic-research-skills/split-pdf/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/franklee16/academic-research-skills/split-pdf)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/franklee16/academic-research-skills/split-pdf"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/franklee16/academic-research-skills/split-pdf/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for split-pdf

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/franklee16/academic-research-skills/split-pdf"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/franklee16/academic-research-skills/split-pdf.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,581 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00057 $0.01581
Opus 5.5 $0.00023 $0.00632
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00316
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00158

Measured 1mo ago against content hash b2658f0be142, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

split-pdf scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

allowed-tools: Bash(python*), Bash(pip*), Bash(curl*), Bash(wget*), Bash(mkdir*), Bash(ls*), Read, Write, Edit, WebSearch, WebFetch
project-management/split-pdf/SKILL.md · 136 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

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. 1mo ago First seen · 136 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A b2658f0be142

Subscribe to this mod's changes

split-pdf is a skill published in the GitHub repository franklee16/academic-research-skills (227 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 1,581 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

apify-youtube-transcript-scraper

Get YouTube captions, timestamped quotations, SRT/VTT and translated transcripts for videos, channels and playlists through the harshmaur/youtube-transcript-scraper Apify Actor.

sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills · 48 tokens

foundry-hosted-agent-validation

Step-by-step process for validating a Python Foundry hosted agent sample (under python/samples/04-hosting/foundry-hosted-agents/) end to end — running it locally (native runtime and azd ai agent run) and after deploying it to an Azure AI Foundry project with azd. Use this when asked to validate a hosted agent sample.

microsoft/agent-framework · 82 tokens

skill-doc-delivery

Convert markdown to DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, PDF office documents — use when you need exportable deliverables.

nyldn/claude-octopus · 29 tokens

meta-web-to-pdf-briefing

Render a topic into a distributable PDF briefing in three steps: web search → bullet summary → styled PDF. Trigger when the user asks for a PDF briefing on a single topic.

opensquilla/opensquilla · 45 tokens

chat-complex-documents

Chat with and search your complex documents — ask questions, extract tables and fields, and get answers grounded in the source. Connects the hosted Unstructured Transform MCP server to parse, structure, and enrich PDFs, Word/Excel/PowerPoint, images, scanned files, emails, and 60+ other formats into clean, AI-ready…

vellum-ai/vellum-assistant · 90 tokens

pkf-writing

Author, update, convert, validate, persist, and render PKF (.pkf) content through message-inline, Library Asset, or Memory Page carriers. Use for structured reports, knowledge pages, delivery cards, or any .pkf body. NOT for recall, memory-graph placement, or curation decisions — those belong to the memory skill.

Prismer-AI/PrismerCloud · 78 tokens