doc-reader

doc-reader is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from skloxo/TideTrading. It costs 65 tokens per session (1,029 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A document and data reader that extracts text from common files, including PDFs, Word documents, spreadsheets, presentations, images, CSV files, configuration files, web pages, and source code. Scanned images are read with optical character recognition, or OCR.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to read document text and tables, preview spreadsheet sheets, extract presentation content, recognise text in images, and load plain text, structured data, markup, or code.
Why use it?
It removes the need to use a different reading method for each file type. It also makes text in scanned pages and images available for analysis.

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/skloxo/tidetrading/doc-reader
Any agent
npx skills add skloxo/TideTrading --skill doc-reader
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/skloxo/TideTrading

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,029 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 $0.00065 $0.01029
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00515
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00206
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00103

Measured 4d ago against content hash 615f4774f3a4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

doc-reader 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 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.

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.

agent/src/skills/doc-reader/SKILL.md · 115 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Universal Document Reader

Purpose

Return extracted text from any supported file in a single unified JSON envelope. The tool dispatches by file extension — you always call the same tool regardless of format.

Supported formats

Category Extensions Notes
PDF .pdf Text pages extracted in ms; scanned/image pages fall back to OCR
Word .docx Paragraphs + table cells
Excel .xlsx, .xls All sheets, first 100 rows per sheet as preview
PowerPoint .pptx Slide text content
Images .png/.jpg/.jpeg/.gif/.bmp/.webp/.tiff OCR only
CSV / TSV .csv, .tsv Raw text with encoding fallback
Plain text .txt/.md/.log/.rst Encoding fallback
Config .json/.yaml/.yml/.toml/.ini/.cfg/.env Raw text
Markup .html/.htm/.xml Raw text (no HTML stripping)
Source code .py/.js/.ts/.tsx/.go/.rs/.java/.cpp/.c/.sql/.sh/... Raw text
Unknown extension anything else Best-effort read as UTF-8/GBK text

Blocked (rejected at /upload): executables (.exe/.dll/.so/...) and archives (.zip/.tar/...). Ask the user to unpack archives locally first.

Usage

Always call the tool directly — do not run Python from bash.

read_document(file_path="uploads/paper.pdf")
read_document(file_path="uploads/annual_report.pdf", pages="1-10")
read_document(file_path="uploads/contract.docx")
read_document(file_path="uploads/sales.xlsx")
read_document(file_path="uploads/deck.pptx")
read_document(file_path="uploads/chart.png")     # image → OCR
read_document(file_path="uploads/config.yaml")
read_document(file_path="uploads/notes.md")

The pages parameter only applies to PDF; other formats ignore it.

Return envelope

All formats share this shape:

{
  "status": "ok",
  "file": "paper.pdf",
  "format": "pdf",
  "char_count": 52000,
  "truncated": true,
  "text": "..."
}

Format-specific extra fields:

Format Extra keys
pdf total_pages, pages_read, ocr_pages
docx paragraphs, tables
excel sheets (array of {name, rows, cols})
pptx slides
text encoding, size

Read the full file on GitHub · 115 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. 4d ago First seen · 115 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 615f4774f3a4

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doc-reader is a skill published in the GitHub repository skloxo/TideTrading (10 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 1,029 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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