pdftk-server

pdftk-server is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from MarieLynneBlock/arcanum-artifex. It costs 82 tokens per session (1,152 once invoked), scanned B, original, no licence file.

A command-line tool for working with PDF documents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to merge, split, rotate, encrypt, decrypt, fill, watermark, stamp, repair, or inspect PDF files.
Why use it?
It handles common PDF changes and document operations from the command line instead of requiring manual editing.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it to merge, split, rotate, encrypt, decrypt, fill, watermark, stamp, repair, or inspect PDF files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/marielynneblock/arcanum-artifex/pdftk-server
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 MarieLynneBlock/arcanum-artifex --skill pdftk-server
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MarieLynneBlock/arcanum-artifex

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,152 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00082 $0.01152
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00576
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00230
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00115

Measured 9d ago against content hash d540ff800d0b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

pdftk-server scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 9d 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

- **Linux (Debian/Ubuntu)**: `sudo apt-get install pdftk`
skills/document-production/pdf/pdftk-server/SKILL.md · 165 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 9d ago First seen · 165 lines · 82 tokens per session scan B d540ff800d0b

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pdftk-server is a skill published in the GitHub repository MarieLynneBlock/arcanum-artifex (4 stars, last pushed 7d ago), with no licence file. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 1,152 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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