Routa is a workspace-based coordination platform for delivering software with multiple AI agents, keeping goals, tasks, sessions, traces, evidence, and review decisions visible on a shared board. It is intended for teams managing agent-assisted development across web and desktop applications. The catalogue contains skills and instructions for working with Routa's delivery workflows.
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.
npx skills add phodal/routa --skill pdfgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/phodal/routaWrote 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/phodal/routa/pdf)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/phodal/routa/pdf"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/phodal/routa/pdf/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/phodal/routa/pdf"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/phodal/routa/pdf.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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 | $0.00077 | $0.01198 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00031 | $0.00479 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00015 | $0.00240 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00120 |
Grade A, and why
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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 126 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
PDF Skill
Use the repo-local toolkit under tools/pdfs/. The default operating loop is:
- Render to images.
- Inspect layout visually.
- Perform the edit, extraction, or generation.
- Re-render and verify.
Choose the right authoring path first
Even if the user wants a PDF deliverable, PDF is not always the right authoring format.
- Text-heavy business docs: author in DOCX first, then convert with
python3 tools/pdfs/scripts/lo_convert_to_pdf.py ... - Slide-like visual layouts: author in PPTX first, then export to PDF
- Direct PDF generation or low-level edits: use this toolkit
If you are hand-tuning line breaks in a programmatically generated PDF, stop and reconsider whether DOCX or PPTX is the better source format.
Core loop
Render before and after any meaningful change:
python3 tools/pdfs/scripts/render_pdf.py input.pdf --out_dir /tmp/pdf-renders-in --dpi 200
python3 tools/pdfs/scripts/compare_renders.py before.pdf after.pdf --out_dir /tmp/pdf-diff --dpi 200
Rendered PNGs are the source of truth for layout QA. Do not trust extracted text alone for tables, forms, spacing, or clipping.
Common workflows
Inspect / extract
python3 tools/pdfs/scripts/pdf_inspect.py input.pdf
python3 tools/pdfs/scripts/pdf_extract.py text input.pdf --method pdfplumber
python3 tools/pdfs/scripts/pdf_extract.py tables input.pdf
python3 tools/pdfs/scripts/pdf_extract.py forms input.pdf --include_widgets
Edit / normalize
python3 tools/pdfs/scripts/pdf_edit.py paginate input.pdf -o output.pdf
python3 tools/pdfs/scripts/pdf_edit.py merge a.pdf b.pdf -o merged.pdf
python3 tools/pdfs/scripts/pdf_edit.py rotate input.pdf -o rotated.pdf --pages 1 --degrees 90
python3 tools/pdfs/scripts/pdf_preflight.py input.pdf
Redact / OCR
python3 tools/pdfs/scripts/pdf_redact.py text input.pdf redacted.pdf --text "secret" --ignore_case
python3 tools/pdfs/scripts/ocr_pdf.py scan.pdf -o searchable.pdf --force
Create / convert
What ships with it
32 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.
- examples/smoke_test.md 2.2 KB
- js/extract_form_fields.mjs 1.1 KB runs code
- js/extract_text_pdfjs.mjs 1.3 KB runs code
- js/fill_form.mjs 2.6 KB runs code
- js/install_deps.sh 326 B runs code
- js/package-lock.json 11 KB
- js/package.json 145 B
- LICENSE.txt 1.4 KB
- scripts/batch_pdf.py 4.7 KB runs code
- scripts/box_picker_html.py 7.8 KB runs code
- scripts/compare_renders.py 5.2 KB runs code
- scripts/create_montage.py 3.4 KB runs code
- scripts/edit_smoketest.py 2.0 KB runs code
- scripts/forms_smoketest.py 2.9 KB runs code
- scripts/html_to_pdf.py 2.1 KB runs code
- scripts/latex_to_pdf.py 3.7 KB runs code
- scripts/lo_convert_to_pdf.py 2.8 KB runs code
- scripts/make_watermark_pdf.py 2.2 KB runs code
- scripts/md_to_pdf.py 2.9 KB runs code
- scripts/ocr_pdf.py 6.4 KB runs code
- scripts/pdf_edit.py 19 KB runs code
- scripts/pdf_extract.py 22 KB runs code
- scripts/pdf_inspect.py 5.8 KB runs code
- scripts/pdf_preflight.py 6.3 KB runs code
- scripts/pdf_redact.py 11 KB runs code
- scripts/place_text_by_boxes.py 11 KB runs code
- scripts/redact_smoketest.py 3.0 KB runs code
- scripts/render_pdf.py 5.6 KB runs code
- scripts/renderer_parity.py 4.4 KB runs code
- tasks/forms_debugging.md 1.6 KB
- tasks/js_tools.md 1.3 KB
- troubleshooting/common.md 2.0 KB
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 126 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A 568eadd169f1
pdf is a skill published in the GitHub repository phodal/routa (1,831 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 1,198 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-30.
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