nano-pdf

nano-pdf is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jscholz/hermes-agent-workflow. It costs 38 tokens per session (381 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of nano-pdf, Apache-2.0.

A command-line tool for editing text in PDF files using natural-language instructions. A PDF is a fixed-layout document such as a report, contract, or presentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to change titles, dates, names, or other text on a specified PDF page, then verify the resulting file.
Why use it?
It avoids manual PDF editing for straightforward text changes and typo fixes. Complex layout changes may still need another tool.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to change titles, dates, names, or other text on a specified PDF page, then verify the resulting file.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jscholz/hermes-agent-workflow/nano-pdf
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 jscholz/hermes-agent-workflow --skill nano-pdf
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jscholz/hermes-agent-workflow

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 381 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 95% 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 5.1 $0.00038 $0.00381
Opus 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00152
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00076
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00038

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 36a8cf6cbe26, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nano-pdf 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 1mo 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

95% identical to nano-pdf — 4 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.

skills/productivity/nano-pdf/SKILL.md · 52 lines

What it actually says

nano-pdf

Edit PDFs using natural-language instructions. Point it at a page and describe what to change.

Prerequisites

# Install with uv (recommended — already available in Hermes)
uv pip install nano-pdf

# Or with pip
pip install nano-pdf

Usage

nano-pdf edit <file.pdf> <page_number> "<instruction>"

Examples

# Change a title on page 1
nano-pdf edit deck.pdf 1 "Change the title to 'Q3 Results' and fix the typo in the subtitle"

# Update a date on a specific page
nano-pdf edit report.pdf 3 "Update the date from January to February 2026"

# Fix content
nano-pdf edit contract.pdf 2 "Change the client name from 'Acme Corp' to 'Acme Industries'"

Notes

  • Page numbers may be 0-based or 1-based depending on version — if the edit hits the wrong page, retry with ±1
  • Always verify the output PDF after editing (use read_file to check file size, or open it)
  • The tool uses an LLM under the hood — requires an API key (check nano-pdf --help for config)
  • Works well for text changes; complex layout modifications may need a different approach
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. 1mo ago First seen · 52 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 36a8cf6cbe26

Subscribe to this mod's changes

nano-pdf is a skill published in the GitHub repository jscholz/hermes-agent-workflow (3 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 381 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 95% identical to nano-pdf, differing in 4 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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