pdf-handout-generator

pdf-handout-generator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from JAICHANGPARK/workshop-harness. It costs 34 tokens per session (610 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool that turns Markdown documentation into printable PDF handouts and creates page previews in a contact sheet, which is a single image showing many page thumbnails.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build workshop handouts from files in docs/, generate Letter-sized PDFs, render page images, and review the output quickly.
Why use it?
It removes the manual work of laying out documents, rendering pages, and checking the whole PDF visually before distribution.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to build workshop handouts from files in docs/, generate Letter-sized PDFs, render page images, and review the output quickly.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jaichangpark/workshop-harness/pdf-handout-generator
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 JAICHANGPARK/workshop-harness --skill pdf-handout-generator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JAICHANGPARK/workshop-harness

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 610 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 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 $0.00034 $0.00610
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00305
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00122
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00061

Measured 10d ago against content hash a1eafdbdff86, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pdf-handout-generator 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.

skills/pdf-handout-generator/SKILL.md · 60 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PDF Handout Generator Skill

Purpose

Converts markdown documentation in docs/ into publication-ready PDF handouts for workshop attendees, TAs, and facilitators. Automatically renders high-resolution page preview thumbnails and generates a visual contact sheet grid image (contact_sheet.png) for rapid quality assurance prior to printing or distribution.


Dependencies & Auto-Resolution

PDF generation relies on three Python libraries managed via uv:

  • reportlab (>=4.0.0): Builds programmatic PDF layouts, custom typography, page canvas headers/footers, and flowing document elements.
  • pymupdf (fitz, >=1.23.0): Renders output PDF pages into high-DPI PNG image files.
  • pillow (PIL, >=10.0.0): Tiles individual page images into a multi-column contact sheet matrix.

Note: Dependencies are automatically checked and installed via uv when executing harness_cli.py build-pdf.


Styling & Layout Specifications

The PDF generator engine (scripts/generate_prep_pdf.py) applies the following publication standards:

  1. Page Margins & Dimensions: Letter size (8.5 x 11 in) with 0.5 inch (36 pt) margins.
  2. Color Palette:
    • Primary Accent: Google Blue (#4285F4)
    • Secondary Accent: Slate Dark (#1E293B)
    • Background Tint: Neutral Gray (#F8FAFC)
    • Text Color: Charcoal (#0F172A)
  3. Typography:
    • Document Title: 24 pt Bold
    • Heading 1: 16 pt Bold with underline accent line
    • Heading 2: 13 pt Bold
    • Body Text: 10 pt Regular with 14 pt line leading
    • Code Blocks: 9 pt Monospace (Courier) inside rounded background boxes
  4. Header & Footer Canvas:
    • Header: Workshop title and document section name right-aligned.
    • Footer: Left-aligned copyright notice and right-aligned dynamic page numbers ("Page X of Y").

CLI Command Usage

Build the PDF handout and contact sheet preview using harness_cli.py:

uv run harness_cli.py build-pdf --target my-bwai-workshop

Output Artifact Specifications

Read the full file on GitHub · 60 lines

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 · 60 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A a1eafdbdff86

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pdf-handout-generator is a skill published in the GitHub repository JAICHANGPARK/workshop-harness (5 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 610 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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