pdf-text-extractor

pdf-text-extractor is a skill for Codex from WILLOSCAR/research-units-pipeline-skills. It costs 38 tokens per session (1,233 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A PDF text-extraction skill that downloads available research papers and turns their full text into plain-text files and structured indexes. bioRxiv and similar research sources publish papers before or around formal journal publication.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a survey requires full-text evidence, including downloading PDFs and creating files for later paper notes and citation-backed writing.
Why use it?
It provides fuller source text when paper metadata or abstracts are not enough to support research notes and claims.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: installed under .codex/.

Good fit Use it when a survey requires full-text evidence, including downloading PDFs and creating files for later paper notes and citation-backed writing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/willoscar/research-units-pipeline-skills/pdf-text-extractor
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 WILLOSCAR/research-units-pipeline-skills --skill pdf-text-extractor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/WILLOSCAR/research-units-pipeline-skills

Made for: 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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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,233 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.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00038 $0.01233
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00616
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00247
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00123

Measured 8d ago against content hash d4078322c7e9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pdf-text-extractor 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 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/run.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.

.codex/skills/pdf-text-extractor/SKILL.md · 107 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

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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. 8d ago Changed · +3 lines · -65 tokens per session d4078322c7e9
  2. 13d ago First seen · 104 lines · 103 tokens per session scan A 3e810be405dd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pdf-text-extractor is a skill published in the GitHub repository WILLOSCAR/research-units-pipeline-skills (506 stars, last pushed yesterday), with no licence file. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 1,233 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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