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Agent Skill

PDF skill

pdfOpenAI Skillsskills/.curated/pdf/SKILL.md

Use when tasks involve reading, creating, or reviewing PDF files where rendering and layout matter; prefer visual checks by rendering pages (Poppler) and use Python tools such as `reportlab`, `pdfplumber`, and `pypdf` for generation and extraction.

28kofficial repo

always on

56 tokname + description

once used

499 tokSKILL.md body

bundled files

312 KB

repo stars

28kGitHub

Install the PDF skill

Skills CLI (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others)

npx skills add https://github.com/openai/skills --skill pdf

Claude Code, by hand (all projects)

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/openai/skills.git /tmp/skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -R /tmp/skills/skills/.curated/pdf ~/.claude/skills/pdf

For one project only, copy the folder into .claude/skills/ in that project instead. The agent picks it up when a task matches its description.

What it costs your context

Agent Skills load in three steps. Tokens counted with the o200k tokenizer; your model's count will differ a little.

WhenWhat loadsCost
Every sessionName and description56 tok
When the agent uses itThe SKILL.md instructions499 tok
Only if opened3 bundled files (12 KB)varies

Until it is used, pdf costs about 24× less than the median MCP server we measured (1,362 tokens on every turn). Installing all 44 skills from openai/skills would load 2,975 tokens of descriptions. Skills vs MCP study

Checks

Our checks found nothing to flag: it follows the Agent Skills specification's naming and size guidelines and doesn't pipe downloads into a shell.

Checked 2026-10-22 · method

What's inside

The headings of its SKILL.md. Read the full file on GitHub.

  • PDF Skill
  • When to use
  • Workflow
  • Temp and output conventions
  • Dependencies (install if missing)
  • Environment
  • Rendering command
  • Quality expectations
  • Final checks

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