PDF Header Footer

Add headers, footers, page numbers (pdf-header-footer)

Add headers, footers, page numbers

Part of the Universal PDF Management & Creation Skill Repository. Category: PDF Management. Every skill is individually callable (INDIVIDUAL MODE) and may also be invoked automatically by the orchestrator (SYSTEM MODE).

When to use

Add running heads/footers and page numbers.

Operations

• running header
• running footer
• page numbers
• skip first page
• start number
• page selection

Engine (what actually executes this)

universal_pdf/core.annotate:add_header_footer

All heavy lifting is done on disk / one page at a time by the shared engine — never by loading the document into an LLM context.

Tools & graceful degradation

• Preferred tool: PyMuPDF insert_text
• Fallback: —

If the preferred backend is unavailable the skill transparently uses the fallback or reports a documented limitation. It never reports success when an operation did not actually happen.

Validation (this skill attaches checks to its Outcome)

page_count preserved

Related skills

pdf-watermark, pdf-annotate, pdf-orchestrate

Example requests it handles

• "Add 'Quarterly Report' header and page numbers."

Notes

Provenance: outputs cite their source page/section where relevant.