Getting it into your agent
It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pantheon-org/tekhnenpx agentmods add skills/pantheon-org/tekhne/sci-data-extractorWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/pantheon-org/tekhne/sci-data-extractor)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/pantheon-org/tekhne/sci-data-extractor"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/pantheon-org/tekhne/sci-data-extractor.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00096 | $0.01596 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00048 | $0.00798 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00019 | $0.00319 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00160 |
Grade A, and why
sci-data-extractor 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 3d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 142 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Sci-Data-Extractor
AI-powered tool for extracting structured data from scientific literature PDFs. Converts tables, figures, and text from research papers into Markdown tables or CSV files using PyMuPDF (free) or Mathpix OCR (high-precision) plus an LLM extraction layer.
When to Use
- Extracting enzyme kinetics parameters (Km, Kcat, Kcat/Km) from biochemistry papers
- Converting experimental result tables from PDFs to structured CSV or Markdown
- Building a literature review dataset from multiple paper PDFs
- Batch-processing a folder of PDFs into a unified dataset
- Parsing complex tables or chart data points that require AI assistance
When Not to Use
- The paper is already in a machine-readable format (XML, JSON, HTML) — parse it directly
- You only need the abstract or title — use
semantic-scholar-searchinstead - The PDF is scanned at low resolution with no embedded text and Mathpix is unavailable — results will be unreliable
- You need real-time citation counts or DOI resolution — use
semantic-scholar-search
Mindset
Data extraction from PDFs is a pipeline with multiple failure points — always validate each stage.
- OCR first, extraction second: a gotcha is assuming PyMuPDF handles all PDFs equally. Scanned images, complex multi-column layouts, and formula-heavy pages are a known pitfall — switch to Mathpix for high-precision needs or pre-inspect output before running AI extraction.
- Prompts determine quality: the AI extraction layer is only as good as the extraction prompt. ALWAYS review the raw LLM output before saving; consider that ambiguous column headers or merged table cells can silently corrupt extracted values.
- Batch is not atomic: a production gotcha is treating batch runs as pass/fail. ALWAYS check the per-file success log; failed files are listed at the end and must optionally be re-run individually.
Workflow
1. Install dependencies (first run only)
What ships with it
12 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.
- .audits/2026-04-10/analysis.md 1.2 KB
- .audits/2026-04-10/audit.json 504 B
- .audits/latest 10 B
- evals/instructions.json 851 B
- evals/scenario-01.md 1.7 KB
- evals/scenario-02.md 2.1 KB
- evals/scenario-03.md 2.4 KB
- evals/summary.json 69 B
- references/setup-and-troubleshooting.md 2.9 KB
- requirements.txt 272 B
- scripts/batch_extract.py 4.8 KB runs code
- scripts/extractor.py 17 KB runs code
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.
- 3d ago First seen · 142 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A ea35d1cd0244
sci-data-extractor is a skill published in the GitHub repository pantheon-org/tekhne (10 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 1,596 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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