doc-gen-unicode-diagnostic

doc-gen-unicode-diagnostic is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from HKUDS/OpenSpace. It costs 24 tokens per session (2,895 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A troubleshooting workflow for generating documents such as DOCX, PDF, and HTML files when Unicode or conversion errors occur. Unicode is the standard that lets documents contain characters from many languages and symbol sets.

In plain words
What is it for?
Diagnosing document-generation failures, choosing a suitable conversion engine, and handling non-English text safely.
Why use it?
It checks the available conversion tools, sanitises problematic text, and captures useful error details instead of relying on blind retries.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Diagnosing document-generation failures, choosing a suitable conversion engine, and handling non-English text safely.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hkuds/openspace/document-gen-fallback-enhanced-enhanced-3d3a9a
About the project

OpenSpace is a skill-management layer for AI agents that stores, retrieves, evaluates, shares, and improves reusable workflows. It is intended for people using multiple coding agents who want skills to be reused and refined based on task outcomes. The catalogue provides 200 skills for use with OpenSpace and the agents it supports.

HKUDS/OpenSpace · 7,552 stars · on GitHub

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 HKUDS/OpenSpace --skill document-gen-fallback-enhanced-enhanced-3d3a9a
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HKUDS/OpenSpace

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,895 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 $0.00024 $0.02895
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.01448
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00579
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00290

Measured 10d ago against content hash 42127ac811ba, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

doc-gen-unicode-diagnostic 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 10d 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.

benchmarks/gdpval/skills/document-gen-fallback-enhanced-enhanced-3d3a9a/SKILL.md · 375 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 375 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Document Generation with Diagnostic Workflow (Unicode-Safe)

When to Use

Use this skill when document generation tasks fail or return unclear errors, especially when:

  • Generating documents in multiple formats (.docx, .pdf, .html)
  • PDF generation fails with encoding/LaTeX errors
  • shell_agent returns "unknown error" without diagnostics
  • Documents contain special characters, symbols, or non-ASCII text
  • You need systematic error diagnosis rather than blind retries

⚠️ Critical: Why This Skill Exists

Recent executions show 43% effectiveness because agents:

  • Skip unicode sanitization before PDF conversion
  • Don't try xelatex engine (better Unicode support)
  • Don't capture stderr for proper diagnosis
  • Exhaust iterations on repeated failures without systematic troubleshooting

This skill fixes those gaps with mandatory steps.

Pre-Flight Validation (NEW - Required Step 0)

Before starting document generation, verify your toolchain:

run_shell
command: which pandoc && pandoc --version | head -3
run_shell
command: which pdflatex xelatex wkhtmltopdf 2>/dev/null || echo "Some engines missing"
run_shell
command: python3 -c "import sys; print(sys.version)"

If pandoc is missing, install it:

run_shell
command: apt-get update && apt-get install -y pandoc

For PDF support, install LaTeX engines:

run_shell
command: apt-get install -y texlive-latex-recommended texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-xetex

Core Technique

Manually split the workflow into observable, diagnostic steps:

  1. Pre-flight → Verify toolchain availability
  2. Content creation → Use write_file for markdown source (visible content)
  3. Unicode sanitizationMANDATORY for PDF: Create sanitized version
  4. Format conversion with fallback → Try engines in order, capture stderr
  5. Verification → Check outputs exist and validate content

Unicode & LaTeX Compatibility (MANDATORY for PDF)

PDF generation via LaTeX has limited Unicode support. Before PDF conversion, you MUST sanitize:

Read the full file on GitHub · 375 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. 10d ago First seen · 375 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 42127ac811ba

Subscribe to this mod's changes

doc-gen-unicode-diagnostic is a skill published in the GitHub repository HKUDS/OpenSpace (7,552 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 2,895 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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