pdf-to-report-workflow

pdf-to-report-workflow is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from HKUDS/OpenSpace. It costs 24 tokens per session (4,299 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

An end-to-end workflow for extracting content from existing PDFs and generating new PDF reports with command-line tools. It can also combine information from multiple PDF sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to read source PDFs, assemble extracted content, combine documents, and create report files.
Why use it?
It provides a PDF-processing path when Python PDF libraries or other document tools are unavailable.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is for pdf in ../source_pdfs/*.pdf; do.

Good fit Use it to read source PDFs, assemble extracted content, combine documents, and create report files.

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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 · 7,534 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HKUDS/OpenSpace
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hkuds/openspace/pdf-verification-cli-enhanced-657992

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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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 4,299 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 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 $0.04299
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.02150
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00860
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00430

Measured 4d ago against content hash 314d456cc499, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

pdf-to-report-workflow scanned grade C with 2 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 4d 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

trap "rm -rf $WORKDIR" EXIT

Runs shell commandslowCapability

Expected in a hook, worth knowing in a rule or an instructions file.

result = subprocess.run(['which', tool],
benchmarks/gdpval/skills/pdf-verification-cli-enhanced-657992/SKILL.md · 585 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 585 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PDF-to-Report Generation Workflow

This skill provides a complete end-to-end workflow for processing PDF documents: extracting content from source PDFs, assembling report data, and generating new PDF output files—all using command-line tools when Python libraries are unavailable.

When to Use This Skill

  • Need to extract text/content from existing PDFs
  • Need to create new PDF reports from extracted data
  • Need to combine multiple PDF sources into a single report
  • PyPDF2, reportlab, or similar Python PDF libraries are unavailable
  • Working in minimal/containerized environments

Core Tools

Extraction Tools (poppler-utils)

1. pdfinfo - Extract PDF Metadata
# Get full PDF info
pdfinfo document.pdf

# Get only page count
pdfinfo document.pdf | grep Pages

# Extract page count as a number
pdfinfo document.pdf | grep Pages | awk '{print $2}'

Key metadata fields:

  • Pages: Number of pages in the PDF
  • Title: Document title
  • Author: Document author
  • CreationDate: When the PDF was created
  • ModDate: Last modification date
2. pdftotext - Extract Text Content
# Extract all text to stdout
pdftotext document.pdf -

# Extract text to a file
pdftotext document.pdf output.txt

# Extract text from specific page range
pdftotext -f 1 -l 3 document.pdf output.txt

# Preserve layout (rough formatting)
pdftotext -layout document.pdf output.txt

Generation Tools (Choose based on availability)

1. enscript + ps2pdf - Text to PDF (Recommended)

Convert plain text to PDF via PostScript:

# Install if needed
apt-get install -y enscript ghostscript

# Convert text file to PDF
enscript -B -o output.ps input.txt && ps2pdf output.ps output.pdf

# One-liner
enscript -B input.txt -o - | ps2pdf - output.pdf

Options:

  • -B: No borders
  • -o: Output file (- for stdout)
  • -f: Font specification (e.g., -fCourier10)
2. wkhtmltopdf - HTML to PDF

Convert HTML to PDF with full formatting support:

Read the full file on GitHub · 585 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. 4d ago First seen · 585 lines · 0 tokens per session scan C 314d456cc499

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pdf-to-report-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository HKUDS/OpenSpace (7,534 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 4,299 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (recursive force delete, runs shell commands). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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