PDF Summarize

Summarize with bounded context (pdf-summarize)

Summarize with bounded context

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

Produce a summary of any size document that fits a small model's context.

Operations

• extractive summary
• bucket summaries for huge docs
• hierarchical summary
• persist to knowledge store
• optional abstractive via injected LLM

Engine (what actually executes this)

universal_pdf/core.summarize:summarize

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: local extractive engine
• Fallback: optional injected LLM (abstractive)

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)

summarized; output within configured context size

Related skills

pdf-chunk, pdf-qa, pdf-search, pdf-orchestrate

Example requests it handles

• "Summarize this book in one page."
• "Give me a chapter-by-chapter summary."

Notes

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