read-pdfs

read-pdfs is a skill for Codex from hakula139/nixos-config. It costs 72 tokens per session (747 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A PDF-processing skill for extracting, inspecting, summarizing, and reviewing local PDF files. It can also handle scanned PDFs and check pages, tables, images, fonts, and visual layout.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to understand local PDFs, review their contents, inspect tables or images, and verify how pages render.
Why use it?
It helps when PDF text cannot be copied normally or when the document’s layout matters. It brings text extraction and page rendering into the review process.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to understand local PDFs, review their contents, inspect tables or images, and verify how pages render.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hakula139/nixos-config/read-pdfs
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 hakula139/nixos-config --skill read-pdfs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hakula139/nixos-config

Made for: Codex.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 747 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 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 $0.00072 $0.00747
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00374
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00149
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00075

Measured 9d ago against content hash ed28da132a59, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

read-pdfs 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 9d 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.

home/modules/llm-assistants/codex/skills/read-pdfs/SKILL.md · 69 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.

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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. 9d ago First seen · 69 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A ed28da132a59

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read-pdfs is a skill published in the GitHub repository hakula139/nixos-config (5 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 747 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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