read-book

read-book is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from matteotitta/genesys-skills. It costs 17 tokens per session (2,051 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reading workflow that turns a book or long PDF into dated, searchable notes with extracted ideas, quotes, and frameworks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to summarize books, ebooks, PDFs, pasted text, or public-domain web pages, and capture evidence or named frameworks for later writing.
Why use it?
It removes the need to read and manually organize a long source in one pass. The notes can be reused by other writing and content work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Good fit Use it to summarize books, ebooks, PDFs, pasted text, or public-domain web pages, and capture evidence or named frameworks for later writing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/matteotitta/genesys-skills/read-book
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 matteotitta/genesys-skills --skill read-book
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/matteotitta/genesys-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,051 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. 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 $0.00017 $0.02051
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.01026
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00410
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00205

Measured 9d ago against content hash c77ba009821f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

read-book 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 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.

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/research/read-book/SKILL.md · 148 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 148 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Read book

Turn a book or long PDF into structured, grep-able notes. Same content-consumption pattern every time: ingest → chunk → extract → write a dated clip to the taste-library. The clip is the deliverable — a knowledge asset that /content-strategy and /thought-leadership pull from for evidence, angles, and named frameworks.

Triggers

"read book", "read this book / PDF", "book notes", "extract notes from this PDF", "summarize this ebook", "what's in this book", "pull quotes from this", "extract frameworks from [book]".

What it accepts

Input How it's read
PDF The Read tool reads PDFs natively (~10 pages per call — chunk longer books). The pdf skill handles extraction edge cases.
Markdown /.txt Read directly. No conversion.
Pasted text Use what was pasted. Treat a short paste as one chunk.
URL (public-domain text) WebFetch first (free). Firecrawl (firecrawl_scrape) only if the page is JS-heavy or blocked. Project Gutenberg / archive.org .txt URLs are cleanest.
EPUB / MOBI Convert to PDF or markdown first (ebook-convert, calibre), then read as PDF. If no converter is installed, deferred — give the user the one-line install.

Detect type from the file extension or URL. If ambiguous, ask.

Modes

Invocation Mode What you get
read-book <input> notes (default) Chapter-by-chapter: TL;DR + key concepts + quotes + action items + frameworks
read-book <input> summary summary Whole-book TL;DR (1 paragraph) + 3–5 takeaways + who-it's-for
read-book <input> quotes quotes Pull-quote highlights only, with chapter + page refs
read-book <input> study study Notes + 10–20 spaced-repetition Q&A cards

Full per-mode templates: the premium reference. A long book (>200 pages) with no mode given defaults to notes — warn it'll take many read passes.

Process

Step 1 — Parse input and mode

Detect the format (table above) and the mode (default notes). Confirm the target book if the input is ambiguous.

Read the full file on GitHub · 148 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. 9d ago First seen · 148 lines · 188 tokens per session scan A c77ba009821f

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read-book is a skill published in the GitHub repository matteotitta/genesys-skills (36 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 2,051 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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