book-study

book-study is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sanyuan0704/sanyuan-skills. It costs 121 tokens per session (3,265 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided system for studying books by turning chapters into notes, testing your understanding, and scheduling reviews.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start or resume a book, process chapters, search your notes, review earlier material, compare books, and track open questions and progress.
Why use it?
It replaces unstructured reading with a repeatable way to check what you actually understand and remember.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to start or resume a book, process chapters, search your notes, review earlier material, compare books, and track open questions and progress.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sanyuan0704/sanyuan-skills/book-study
About the project

sanyuan-skills is a collection of reusable instructions, called agent skills, that extend Claude Code and other AI coding terminals with defined workflows. Developers use it for code review, learning, skill quality checks, skill creation, and organizing knowledge into wikis or study materials. The catalogue entries are individual skills from this collection.

sanyuan0704/sanyuan-skills · 3,906 stars · on GitHub

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 sanyuan0704/sanyuan-skills --skill book-study
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sanyuan0704/sanyuan-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 121 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,265 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
  • Socket pass 14 Apr 2026
  • Snyk pass 14 Apr 2026
  • 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 $0.00121 $0.03265
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.01632
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00653
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00327

Measured 12d ago against content hash c28931b30b5f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

book-study 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 12d 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/book-study/SKILL.md · 350 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 350 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Book Study — Reading Coach

Guide users through books systematically. Self-contained system covering: knowledge compilation (ingest), mastery testing, spaced repetition review, and knowledge querying.

IRON LAW: Understanding is proven by explanation + example + application. Never mark a concept as mastered just because the user says "got it."

Usage

/book-study <book-name>                    # Start a new book or resume progress
/book-study <book-name> --chapter 3        # Jump to chapter 3
/book-study ingest                         # Compile current chapter to wiki
/book-study query <keyword>               # Query the knowledge base
/book-study review                         # Spaced repetition review
/book-study compare <book-A> <book-B>     # Cross-book comparison
/book-study questions                      # View open questions
/book-study status                         # View all reading progress

Data Structure

Wiki defaults to book-wiki/ under the current project root.

book-wiki/
├── index.md                    # Global index: all books + cross-book concepts
├── log.md                      # Append-only operation log
├── <book-slug>/                # One directory per book
│   ├── meta.md                 # Book metadata (title, author, reading status)
│   ├── study-plan.md           # Reading plan + progress tracking
│   ├── mastery-map.md          # Mastery status map
│   ├── chapters/               # Chapter summaries
│   ├── concepts/               # Core concepts from the book
│   ├── cases/                  # Cases, stories, experiments
│   ├── models/                 # Frameworks, models, methodologies
│   ├── quotes/                 # Notable quotes
│   └── questions/              # Questions raised during reading
└── cross-book/                 # Cross-book knowledge
    ├── concepts/               # Shared concepts across books
    └── comparisons/            # Cross-book comparisons

File naming: All lowercase, hyphen-separated. Book slug: book title in pinyin or English abbreviation (e.g. thinking-fast-and-slow).

Read the full file on GitHub · 350 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 12d ago First seen · 350 lines · 121 tokens per session scan A c28931b30b5f

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book-study is a skill published in the GitHub repository sanyuan0704/sanyuan-skills (3,906 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 121 tokens to every session and 3,265 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-30.

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