pdf-explore SKILL.md skillA

pdf-explore from emaballarin/ccplugins is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add emaballarin/ccplugins/pdf-explore@git:20261003.faedaf3

Pins git:20261003.faedaf3 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: emaballarin/ccplugins
Path: plugins/ccscience/skills/pdf-explore/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 4
Latest version: git:20261003.faedaf3, committed Oct 3, 2026
First version recorded: Jul 6, 2026
Size: 21,698 bytes
Repository stars: 4
License: MIT

Use this skill when the user has attached or pointed to a PDF, paper, report, or other document and the answer needs content from more than one place in it: summarize the methods or any other section, compare sections, find where a topic is discussed, read a value or label off a figure or chart, pull tables out as CSV, or find/list/extract every instance of something across the whole document (datasets, benchmarks, citations, figures, table rows, accession numbers — including appendices). It…

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# PDF Explore — navigate a PDF too big to embed

The built-in `Read(file_path=..., pages=[...])` attaches PDF pages as vision
blocks — capped at ~20 pages/turn and **dropped from context after one
turn**, so multi-section synthesis turns into re-reading the same pages over
and over. And when the answer is "every page" (list all datasets / citations
/ figures mentioned anywhere), reading the whole document page-by-page is the
expensive way to get it.

This skill parses the PDF **once** into persistent per-page text, and — for
whole-document work — runs **one cheap model call per page (or per batch) in
parallel via subagents**, so the page text lives in files and subagent
contexts, never in yours. You load only what matters, or sweep every page
without putting the pages in your own context at all.

`Read(pages=...)` and this skill are **complementary**: use `Read(pages=...)`
for a one-off look at 1–4 pages you will quote in your very next reply; use
this skill for persistent text, multi-section synthesis, whole-doc sweeps,
and structured extraction.

## Loading the kernel

The helpers live in `kernel.py` next to this file. It is **not** auto-injected
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add emaballarin/ccplugins/pdf-explore@sha256:f0ffbea243ac4f9f

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261003.faedaf3, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_565pxltp64zfrvol.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_565pxltp64zfrvol)

3 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Jul 6, 2026 and Oct 3, 2026, about one every 30 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20261003.faedaf3 latest	2026-10-03	faedaf3	21,698 B	A	view · diff
git:20260714.a77f1a1	2026-07-14	a77f1a1	21,702 B	A	view · diff
git:20260707.ea17946	2026-07-07	ea17946	16,561 B	A	view · diff
git:20260706.7859491	2026-07-06	7859491	15,716 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (21698 bytes)
pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
pass: No credential-shaped string
pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
pass: No text hidden with inline styles
pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
pass: No link to a raw IP address
pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

emaballarin/ccplugins · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_565pxltp64zfrvol
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=emaballarin/ccplugins/pdf-explore
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f0ffbea243ac4f9f799b2addc610f0dde6c12f0aeb9e8d009d3672ad9a2f4b12

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

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