pdf-table-extractor-brief

pdf-table-extractor-brief is a skill for Claude Code from ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills. It costs 61 tokens per session (2,670 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning and spreadsheet-template tool for transferring tables from PDF documents into structured data. PDFs are fixed-layout documents, so their tables can be difficult to copy accurately.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan manual or partly automated extraction from reports, budgets, or public records, including repeated documents.
Why use it?
It reduces missing cells, mixed-up columns, and inconsistent formats when automated PDF table extraction produces unreliable results.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the autopunk-media-skills plugin — 187 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan manual or partly automated extraction from reports, budgets, or public records, including repeated documents.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills/pdf-table-extractor-brief
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 ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills --skill pdf-table-extractor-brief
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install autopunk-media-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 187 skills.

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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,670 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
  • 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 $0.00061 $0.02670
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.01335
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00534
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00267

Measured 12d ago against content hash 275b97fac64d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pdf-table-extractor-brief 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/data-journalism/investigation/pdf-table-extractor-brief/SKILL.md · 135 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 135 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PDF Table Extractor Brief

What This Skill Does

Produces a structured extraction plan and clean spreadsheet template for pulling tabular data out of a PDF document — identifying the table structure, defining column headers, flagging extraction pitfalls, and providing a ready-to-use template that ensures the data lands in a consistent, analysable format.

When To Use This Skill

  • You have received a government report, budget document, or public record as a PDF and need the tables in spreadsheet format for analysis
  • You are dealing with a PDF where automated extraction tools (Tabula, Camelot, Adobe Export) produce messy or incomplete results and you need a manual or semi-automated extraction plan
  • You have multiple PDFs with similar table structures and need a standardized template to ensure consistency across extractions
  • You are assigning the extraction task to a research assistant or intern and need clear instructions that prevent common errors

What You Need To Provide

Required: A description of the PDF and its table structure — the document title, what the table contains, how many columns and rows (approximate is fine), and what the data represents. If possible, paste or describe the first few rows of the table so the assistant can see the structure. Alternatively, provide the actual PDF content if you have extracted the raw text.

Optional: The extraction tool you plan to use (Tabula, Camelot, manual copy-paste, Adobe Export, or "not sure — recommend one"); any known problems with the PDF (merged cells, multi-line row entries, footnotes embedded in the table, inconsistent formatting across pages); the analysis you plan to run on the extracted data (this helps the assistant optimize the template for your downstream use case).

How the Assistant Approaches This

  1. Analyzes the table structure. From the description or pasted content, identifies: number of columns, data types per column (text, integers, currency, percentages, dates), header rows vs. data rows, whether the table spans multiple pages, and whether any cells are merged or contain multi-line entries. This structural map is the foundation of the extraction plan.

Read the full file on GitHub · 135 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 135 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 275b97fac64d

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pdf-table-extractor-brief is a skill published in the GitHub repository ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills (30 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 2,670 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 2026-08-30.

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