read SKILL.md skillA

read from yha9806/academic-writing-toolkit is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add yha9806/academic-writing-toolkit/read@git:20260920.f7e7cc9

Pins git:20260920.f7e7cc9 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
yha9806/academic-writing-toolkit
Path
.claude/skills/read/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
git:20260920.f7e7cc9, committed Sep 20, 2026
First version recorded
Mar 30, 2026
Size
4,432 bytes
Repository stars
49
License
MIT

Read PDF page by page with structured output — key arguments, terms glossary, thesis connections. Use when reading academic papers, books, or articles.

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

# /read — Academic PDF Reading Skill

## Core Principle

**Display first, restrain expansion.** Show the page content, provide a terms glossary, give a brief summary and thesis connections. Do not auto-expand, auto-search, or auto-record unless the user explicitly asks. The reader controls the pace and direction.

## Trigger Words

This skill activates on: `read`, `next page`, `continue`, `skip to p.N`, `read p.N`, `/read`.

## PDF limits

Both are advisory: the host does not enforce them, so say when you cross one.
Say which one you are in rather than asserting either.

- **Maximum 15 pages per invocation.** In the app a wider range is denied
  before it runs, with `PAGE_RANGE_EXCEEDED`.
- **Maximum 90 pages per session** — a context-health budget, counted in the
  app from successful reads folded out of the session log, and denied with
  `PAGE_BUDGET_EXCEEDED`. It counts what went through the harness; reading
  done outside it is invisible to the count. The fold counts calls, not
  distinct pages, so re-reading a page you already read spends the budget
  again — say so before repeating a range.
- Outside the app nothing counts for you: the limits are a rule you follow
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add yha9806/academic-writing-toolkit/read@sha256:4eb1132722d99736

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260920.f7e7cc9, 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 badge

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

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Mar 30, 2026 and Sep 20, 2026, about one every 44 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260920.f7e7cc9 latest2026-09-20 f7e7cc9 4,432 BA view · diff
git:20260907.388cd762026-09-07 388cd76 4,597 BA view · diff
git:20260907.87747f62026-09-07 87747f6 4,451 BA view · diff
git:20260816.d9582322026-08-16 d958232 3,963 BA view · diff
git:20260330.a833d6d2026-03-30 a833d6d 3,505 BA 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 (4432 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

yha9806/academic-writing-toolkit · 49 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-14 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_dyfwwgzkxrzbmyjn
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=yha9806/academic-writing-toolkit/read
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4eb1132722d997367cb0ef1a7dc188b11174f3740211f6b5aefaac7854bab409

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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