pdf SKILL.md skillA
pdf from keyuchen21/agentic-engineering-handbook is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add keyuchen21/agentic-engineering-handbook/pdf@git:20260613.5c7b9b8Pins git:20260613.5c7b9b8 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- keyuchen21/agentic-engineering-handbook
- Path
tutorials/agent-loop/skills/pdf/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260613.5c7b9b8, committed Jun 13, 2026
- Size
- 2,581 bytes
- Repository stars
- 558
- License
- MIT
Process PDF files - extract text, create PDFs, merge documents. Use when user asks to read PDF, create PDF, or work with PDF files.
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 Processing Skill
You now have expertise in PDF manipulation. Follow these workflows:
## Reading PDFs
**Option 1: Quick text extraction (preferred)**
```bash
# Using pdftotext (poppler-utils)
pdftotext input.pdf - # Output to stdout
pdftotext input.pdf output.txt # Output to file
# If pdftotext not available, try:
python3 -c "
import fitz # PyMuPDF
doc = fitz.open('input.pdf')
for page in doc:
print(page.get_text())
"
```
**Option 2: Page-by-page with metadata**
```python
import fitz # pip install pymupdf
doc = fitz.open("input.pdf")
print(f"Pages: {len(doc)}")
print(f"Metadata: {doc.metadata}")
for i, page in enumerate(doc):
text = page.get_text()
print(f"--- Page {i+1} ---")
print(text)
```
## Creating PDFs
**Option 1: From Markdown (recommended)**
```bash
# Using pandoc
pandoc input.md -o output.pdf
# With custom styling
pandoc input.md -o output.pdf --pdf-engine=xelatex -V geometry:margin=1in
```
**Option 2: Programmatically**
```python
from reportlab.lib.pagesizes import letter
from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas
c = canvas.Canvas("output.pdf", pagesize=letter)
c.drawString(100, 750, "Hello, PDF!")
c.save()
```
**Option 3: From HTML**
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add keyuchen21/agentic-engineering-handbook/pdf@sha256:b143723126a9951cThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260613.5c7b9b8, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_7ubt6r5lkqenpscv)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jun 13, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2581 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
keyuchen21/agentic-engineering-handbook · 558 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7ubt6r5lkqenpscv GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=keyuchen21/agentic-engineering-handbook/pdf GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b143723126a9951c556063edbdf15fce252a505e11c85a3fdbaa221f1116d178
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.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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