pdf

pdf is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from openai/skills. It costs 56 tokens per session (564 once invoked), scanned B, original, no licence file.

A PDF-focused skill for reading, creating, and reviewing PDF files when page layout and visual rendering matter.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect PDF content, generate PDFs, extract text, or review whether pages look correct.
Why use it?
It helps catch layout problems that plain text extraction can miss by encouraging rendered-page checks and suitable PDF tools.

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/openai/skills/pdf
Any agent
npx skills add openai/skills --skill pdf
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/openai/skills

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 pdf

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/openai/skills/pdf.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/openai/skills/pdf)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/openai/skills/pdf"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/openai/skills/pdf.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 564 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00056 $0.00564
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00282
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00113
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00056

Measured 4d ago against content hash d108cf2b3635, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

pdf 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 4d 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.

sudo apt-get install -y poppler-utils
skills/.curated/pdf/SKILL.md · 68 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

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. 4d ago First seen · 68 lines · 56 tokens per session scan B d108cf2b3635

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pdf is a skill published in the GitHub repository openai/skills (25,322 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 564 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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