How do I install the PDF skill?

Run npx skillmds@latest add skyfox675/pdf in your terminal (requires Node.js), paste this page's agent-chat prompt into Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-connected agent, or download the SKILL.md file and copy it into your agent's skills directory.

This skill has not completed SkillMD's automated safety review yet. SkillMD never runs a skill's scripts for you; review the SKILL.md before installing.

Which AI agents work with PDF?

This skill is tagged as working with Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex. SKILL.md is an open format, so most agents that read a skills directory can load it too.

Yes. Installing skills from SkillMD is free, and the skill stays under its author's original license.

skyfox675 (@skyfox675) published this skill. Their other Agent Skills are listed on their SkillMD profile.

PDF by skyfox675 — Agent Skill

Name: PDF
Author: skyfox675

PDF

Use this skill whenever the user wants to do anything with PDF files. This includes reading or extracting text/tables from PDFs, combining or merging multiple PDFs into one, splitting PDFs apart, rotating pages, adding watermarks, creating new PDFs, filling PDF forms, encrypting/decrypting PDFs, extracting images, and OCR on scanned PDFs to make them searchable. If the user mentions a .pdf file or asks to produce one, use this skill.

skyfox675 Updated Sep 21, 2026

File contents

pdf (pointer skill)

Pointer skill — the implementation is not stored here. The name above is the stable local contract; the body lives upstream and is fetched/installed from source so consumers always get the latest version.

Canonical source: https://github.com/anthropics/skills/blob/main/skills/pdf/SKILL.md
Raw SKILL.md: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anthropics/skills/main/skills/pdf/SKILL.md
What it does: Comprehensive PDF manipulation — extract text/tables, merge/split, rotate, watermark, fill forms, encrypt/decrypt, extract images, OCR scanned PDFs, create new PDFs.
License: see the anthropics/skills repo LICENSE.

Installing this skill

Claude Code (recommended): /plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills, then /plugin install document-skills@anthropic-agent-skills — this skill ships in the document-skills plugin.
Claude.ai (paid plans): already available, no install.
Claude API: upload/enable via the Skills API.
Cursor / GitHub Copilot: copy skills/pdf/ from anthropics/skills into your skills dir (.cursor/skills/, .github/skills/, or the shared .claude/skills/).

Do not copy the upstream body into this file; that would freeze the version and defeat the pointer.

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pdf (pointer skill)

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