book-to-skill

Turn any book or document into a structured, on-demand agent skill — named frameworks, decision rules, and anti-patterns. Structure, not a summary.

Get started Skill reference GitHub

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Why book-to-skill

• Multi-format

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  PDF, EPUB, DOCX, HTML, Markdown, RTF, MOBI/AZW (via Calibre). Extraction runs locally with graceful stdlib fallbacks — no upload, no lock-in.

• Structure, not summaries

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  Named frameworks, mental models, decision rules, and anti-patterns — the author's toolkit, captured with their exact terms, not a book report.

• On-demand chapters

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  Per-chapter files load only when the topic is relevant, so a 200-page book costs tokens proportional to the question, not the page count.

• Multi-agent

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  One SKILL.md runs on Claude Code, GitHub Copilot CLI, and Amp through the open Agent Skills standard.

Install

pip install book-to-skill        # the extractor package
# or run the skill in your agent:
/book-to-skill /path/to/book.pdf [skill-name]

Learn more

• Architecture

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  How the deterministic extractor and the spec-driven generator fit together.

• Performance

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  The measured Discovery Loop Tax and real per-conversion token cost.

• Skill Reference

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  The full SKILL.md spec: every step, depth budget, and quality rule.

• Sponsor

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  book-to-skill is free and MIT. Sponsoring funds reviews, releases, and fixes.