read

read is a skill for Claude Code from tw93/Waza. It costs 61 tokens per session (1,783 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for reading web pages and PDF files by fetching their contents and returning summaries or clean Markdown. Markdown is a plain-text format commonly used for structured documents.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for reading, summarising, quoting, citing, converting, or saving information from URLs and PDF files.
Why use it?
It saves the user from manually opening and extracting information from online sources or PDFs, while making failures such as paywalls explicit.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: when-to-use in frontmatter.

Good fit It is for reading, summarising, quoting, citing, converting, or saving information from URLs and PDF files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tw93/waza/read
View source ↗ tw93/Waza
About the project

Waza is a collection of installed skills that turn familiar engineering practices into repeatable playbooks for coding agents. It helps agents plan work, design interfaces, review changes, debug problems, edit prose, research unfamiliar subjects, read URLs or PDFs, and check their own health. The catalogue entries are Waza’s skills and supporting agents or instructions.

tw93/Waza · 7,325 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 tw93/Waza --skill read
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tw93/Waza

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for read

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tw93/waza/read/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/tw93/waza/read)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tw93/waza/read"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tw93/waza/read/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for read

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tw93/waza/read"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tw93/waza/read.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,783 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 18 Oct 2026
  • Snyk warn 18 Oct 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 61
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 79
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00061 $0.01783
Opus 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00713
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00357
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00178

Measured today against content hash f04ea5d2c380, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

read 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 today.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 5 executable files (scripts/deepseek.py, scripts/fetch_feishu.py, scripts/fetch_local.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • read — 100% identical, 95 lines differ
plugins/waza/skills/read/SKILL.md · 122 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 122 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Read: Read Any URL or PDF

Prefix your first line with 🥷 inline, not as its own paragraph.

Fetch any URL or local PDF.

Outcome Contract

  • Outcome: the user gets the useful content from a URL or PDF in the form they asked for.

  • Done when: the answer is grounded in fetched content, paywall or extraction failures are explicit, and saved files are only created when requested or needed downstream.

  • Evidence: original URL or file path, fetch tier, extracted text or metadata, and warning signals from the fetched content.

  • Output: concise summary, clean Markdown, saved file path, quotes, citations, or extracted details, depending on the request.

  • Plain "read this" / "看这个链接" requests: return a concise source-grounded summary, not a full Markdown dump.

  • Quotes and citations: return the requested excerpt or relevant claim with its source, within applicable quotation limits.

  • "convert", "fetch as Markdown", "全文", "save", and "下载": return or save the requested content as clean Markdown. For "原文", extraction, or /learn, match the requested passage or downstream scope; do not assume a full-text response.

  • If the same user message asks for comparison, translation, extraction, or analysis, fetch first and then answer that request in the same turn.

Routing

Input Method
feishu.cn, larksuite.com Feishu API script
mp.weixin.qq.com Built-in fetcher first; WeChat browser script if extraction fails
.pdf URL or local PDF path PDF extraction
GitHub URLs (github.com, raw.githubusercontent.com) Prefer raw content or gh first; built-in fetcher for public-page fallback
x.com, twitter.com Built-in fetcher; third-party fallback only with user opt-in
Everything else Built-in fetcher
A query, no URL, and the built-in web search is thin, stale, or missing Chinese sources DeepSeek search, then fetch the results worth reading

After routing, load references/read-methods.md and run the commands for the chosen method.

Read the full file on GitHub · 122 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. today Changed · +3 lines · +15 tokens per session f04ea5d2c380
  2. 23d ago Changed · -2 lines b44216816319
  3. 1mo ago Changed · -32 tokens per session 29ae7686d322
  4. 1mo ago Changed 55f9d74b06a7
  5. 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines 080faca57dcb
  6. 1mo ago Changed · -5 lines 39fa5e5de9dd
  7. 1mo ago First seen · 125 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A ec9596c5225f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

read is a skill published in the GitHub repository tw93/Waza (7,325 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 1,783 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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