pdf

pdf is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ymx10086/ResearchClaw. It costs 60 tokens per session (2,045 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A PDF document tool for working with academic papers, forms, and research reports. PDF is a common fixed-layout document format.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reading, creating, editing, merging, splitting, analyzing, filling, and scanning PDFs, including OCR for scanned documents.
Why use it?
It handles common document tasks that are awkward to do manually, including extracting text from scanned pages.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Reading, creating, editing, merging, splitting, analyzing, filling, and scanning PDFs, including OCR for scanned documents.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ymx10086/researchclaw/pdf
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 ymx10086/ResearchClaw --skill pdf
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ymx10086/ResearchClaw

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 pdf

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ymx10086/researchclaw/pdf/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/ymx10086/researchclaw/pdf)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ymx10086/researchclaw/pdf"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ymx10086/researchclaw/pdf/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 pdf

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ymx10086/researchclaw/pdf"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ymx10086/researchclaw/pdf.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,045 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 $0.00060 $0.02045
Opus 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00818
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00409
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00204

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 87b6892add3d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pdf 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 5 executable files (__init__.py, scripts/convert_pdf_to_images.py, scripts/extract_form_structure.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.

src/researchclaw/agents/skills/pdf/SKILL.md · 315 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 1mo ago First seen · 315 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 87b6892add3d

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pdf is a skill published in the GitHub repository ymx10086/ResearchClaw (315 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 2,045 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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