save-pdf-kb

save-pdf-kb is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hraness/direct. It costs 89 tokens per session (1,200 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of save-pdf-kb, MIT.

A tool that turns a local or online PDF into a searchable Markdown knowledge-base bundle, while keeping the original document and page details for checking.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to import reports, scanned documents, or other PDFs into a knowledge base with OCR text, page provenance, metadata, and extracted visual assets.
Why use it?
It gives you a traceable local copy of the PDF’s text, images, headings, and extraction warnings instead of an unverified text dump.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hraness/direct/save-pdf-kb
Any agent
npx skills add hraness/direct --skill save-pdf-kb
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hraness/direct

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 save-pdf-kb

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 89 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,200 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00089 $0.01200
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00600
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00240
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00120

Measured 3d ago against content hash dce67047e189, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

save-pdf-kb 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 3d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to save-pdf-kb — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.agents/skills/save-pdf-kb/SKILL.md · 139 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 139 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Save a PDF to the knowledge base

Use the installed kb CLI. Resolve <vault> to the directory containing its authored or managed index.md front door, then set the shell-local KB_ROOT to that path (KB_ROOT=kb from a typical repository root).

Check the local conversion routes, then capture the PDF:

kb doctor
kb pdf "/absolute/path/to/document.pdf" --output "$KB_ROOT/articles"
kb pdf "https://example.com/document.pdf" --output "$KB_ROOT/articles"

Pass a stable slug or replace a prior tool-owned bundle only when needed:

kb pdf "/absolute/path/to/document.pdf" --slug ben-leaves-zo --output "$KB_ROOT/articles"
kb pdf "/absolute/path/to/document.pdf" --output "$KB_ROOT/articles" --force

The command installs one atomic bundle:

<slug>/
  <slug>.md
  capture.json
  source.pdf
  annotations.json  # present after a reviewed annotation pass
  assets/

source.pdf is the byte-identical input. The manifest records its original name, hash, byte count, page count, bounded document metadata, processed-page and block counts, image geometry, OCR status, and warnings without retaining the original absolute path. A reviewed second pass also retains the exact normalized annotation array as annotations.json; the manifest records its path, count, byte count, and SHA-256 so the image interpretation remains reproducible.

Preserve text and visual evidence

Treat native PDF text and image text as two independent extraction surfaces. Native text supplies layout, heading, link, and reading-order evidence. Local OCR supplies candidate text for scans and screenshots. Keep every extracted image as an asset even when its text is converted to Markdown.

For recognizable conversations, review the source image and turn OCR into readable message blocks with available platform, author, channel, and timestamp metadata. Preserve uncertain words explicitly instead of silently repairing them. Read references/review.md before refining screenshot-heavy or mixed-media PDFs.

Read the full file on GitHub · 139 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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. 3d ago First seen · 139 lines · 89 tokens per session scan A dce67047e189

Subscribe to this mod's changes

save-pdf-kb is a skill published in the GitHub repository hraness/direct (2 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 89 tokens to every session and 1,200 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to save-pdf-kb, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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