academic-pdf-to-gfm SKILL.md skillA
academic-pdf-to-gfm from terrylica/cc-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add terrylica/cc-skills/academic-pdf-to-gfm@git:20261008.b542227Pins git:20261008.b542227 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- terrylica/cc-skills
- Path
plugins/doc-tools/skills/academic-pdf-to-gfm/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- git:20261008.b542227, committed Oct 8, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 1, 2026
- Size
- 30,469 bytes
- Repository stars
- 2
- License
- MIT
Convert academic PDF papers to GitHub-renderable GFM markdown with math equations. TRIGGERS - PDF, GitHub markdown, math.
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
# Academic PDF → GitHub GFM Conversion
A battle-tested workflow for converting academic/research PDF papers into GitHub-renderable GFM markdown with inline figures, mathematically correct LaTeX, and validated output.
**Battle-tested on**: López de Prado (2026) "How to Use the Sharpe Ratio" — 51 pages, 82 equations, 8 figures.
> **Self-Evolving Skill**: This skill improves through use. If instructions are wrong, parameters drifted, or a workaround was needed — fix this file immediately, don't defer. Only update for real, reproducible issues.
## Quick Start — Per-Page Routing Workflow
**Do NOT try to apply a single extraction method to the entire PDF.** Modern academic papers mix text, tables, and figures; route each page individually.
### Step 1: Render all pages at 300 DPI
```bash
# Generate PNG for every page at 300 DPI
uv run --python 3.14 --with pymupdf python3 << 'EOF'
import fitz, os
doc = fitz.open('paper.pdf')
os.makedirs("pages", exist_ok=True)
for i in range(len(doc)):
pix = doc[i].get_pixmap(matrix=fitz.Matrix(300/72, 300/72), alpha=False)
pix.save(f"pages/page{i:04d}.png")
print(f"Page {i}: {pix.width}×{pix.height}")
EOF
```
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add terrylica/cc-skills/academic-pdf-to-gfm@sha256:02aa17212436631eThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261008.b542227, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Apr 1, 2026 and Oct 8, 2026, about one every 38 days.
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| git:20261008.b542227 latest | 2026-10-08 | b542227 | 30,469 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260731.e3d07a3 | 2026-07-31 | e3d07a3 | 30,534 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260731.4848d18 | 2026-07-31 | 4848d18 | 23,311 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260527.1b5cbb2 | 2026-05-27 | 1b5cbb2 | 20,874 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260506.fd8a4c9 | 2026-05-06 | fd8a4c9 | 20,874 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260401.d376871 | 2026-04-01 | d376871 | 21,743 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (30469 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
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- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
terrylica/cc-skills · 2 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7ghfpvitjke2url2 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=terrylica/cc-skills/academic-pdf-to-gfm GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/02aa17212436631ed0a0e1273cc8f7e20bbc1364f022bf783350499745b9c47f
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