summarizing-a-document

A document-summary method that produces a short, scannable summary with the main claims supported by exact quotes from the source.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for summarizing source material for meetings, reference, or sharing, while preserving short quotations and their locations.
Why use it?
It lets readers understand a long article, paper, transcript, or document and verify important claims without rereading everything.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the wizard plugin — 37 skills, 6 commands, 1 agent, 1 hook shipped together

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/redhuntlabs/wizard/summarizing-a-document
Any agent
npx skills add redhuntlabs/wizard --skill summarizing-a-document
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/redhuntlabs/wizard

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install wizard, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 37 skills, 6 commands, 1 agent, 1 hook.

Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 629 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00029 $0.00629
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00315
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00126
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00063

Measured 3d ago against content hash 077c485b216f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

summarizing-a-document 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.

spells/everyday/summarizing-a-document/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Summarizing a Document

What this does

Produces a short, scannable summary of a longer source. The summary's central claims are each backed by a verbatim quote so the reader can verify quickly.

When to use

  • Sharing a long article, paper, or transcript with someone who won't read it
  • Capturing what you read so you can refer back without re-reading
  • Preparing for a meeting where the source will come up

What you bring (Inputs)

  • The source (article, paper, transcript, doc)
  • The intended reader (so the level matches)
  • A length budget (default: 5 bullets)

What you get (Output)

A markdown summary with: a one-sentence takeaway at the top, then 3-5 bullets, each pairing a claim (in your words) with a verbatim quote from the source.

How it works (Steps)

  1. Read the full source once.
  2. Identify the 3-5 most important claims (not the most interesting prose).
  3. For each claim, find one verbatim quote that supports it. Copy-paste, do not retype.
  4. Write the bullet: claim in your own words, then the quote in italics with location (page, paragraph, or timestamp).
  5. Write the one-sentence takeaway at the top: what would the reader do differently after reading this summary?

Quality bar

  • Within length budget
  • Every claim has a verbatim quote (no paraphrasing posing as quote)
  • Quotes are accurate (copy-paste, not retyped from memory)
  • Takeaway is action-oriented, not descriptive

Variations

  • Pure summary (no quotes): drop step 3-4's quote portion; useful for very informal sharing
  • Disagreement summary: add a final bullet "what's contested in this source"
  • Comparison summary: when summarizing 2+ sources, end with a one-line comparison

Example

Input: A 2,000-word article on remote work productivity for an engineering manager.

Output:

Takeaway: Async-first teams should default to written status updates over meetings; the data shows 25% productivity gains but only when managers also reduce 1:1 cadence.

  • Async beats sync for individual contributor productivity"Engineers in async-first teams shipped 25% more features per sprint than peers in sync-first teams." (para 4)
  • The gain disappears if managers don't also adjust"Managers who maintained weekly 1:1s erased the async productivity gain." (para 7)
  • ...

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 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. 3d ago First seen · 67 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 077c485b216f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

summarizing-a-document is a skill published in the GitHub repository redhuntlabs/wizard (9 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 629 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 2026-08-31.