read-book SKILL.md skillA
read-book from coreyhaines31/makerskills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add coreyhaines31/makerskills/read-book@v0.1.1Pins v0.1.1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- coreyhaines31/makerskills
- Path
skills/read-book/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v0.1.1, committed Oct 8, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 29, 2026
- Size
- 8,710 bytes
- Repository stars
- 882
- License
- MIT
When you want to read and extract structured notes from a book — PDF, EPUB, MOBI, markdown, .txt, pasted text, or URL to a public-domain work. Reads in chunks (by chapter when a TOC exists, by 50-page blocks otherwise), extracts per-chapter TL;DR + key concepts + quotes + action items + frameworks, and offers to capture to second-brain raw/ as a highlights- file. Four modes — notes (default, chapter-by-chapter), summary (whole-book TL;DR + 3–5 takeaways), quotes (pull-quote highlights only)…
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-book — Extract structured notes from books and long PDFs Sibling to `watch-video`. Same content-consumption pattern: ingest → chunk → extract → optionally capture to second-brain. ## Step 1 — Parse input Accept: - **PDF**: file path (Claude reads PDFs natively in chunks via `Read pages:"X-Y"`) - **EPUB / MOBI**: file path (needs `pandoc` or `ebook-convert` to extract — see `references/sources.md`) - **Markdown / .txt**: file path (read directly) - **Pasted text**: just use what was pasted - **URL** to public-domain text: fetch it with your agent's URL-fetch tool or `curl` (Project Gutenberg, archive.org, etc.) Detect type from file extension. If ambiguous, ask. ## Step 2 — Parse mode | Invocation | Mode | What you get | |---|---|---| | `/read-book <input>` | **notes** (default) | Chapter-by-chapter: TL;DR + key concepts + quotes + action items + frameworks | | `/read-book <input> summary` | summary | Whole-book TL;DR (1 paragraph) + 3–5 key takeaways + who-it's-for | | `/read-book <input> quotes` | quotes | Pull-quote highlights only, with chapter context and page refs | | `/read-book <input> study` | study | Notes mode + 10–20 spaced-repetition Q&A cards | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add coreyhaines31/makerskills/read-book@sha256:d5a8532afea59bdeThe line at the top of this page pins the label v0.1.1, 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 5 versions of this file, between Jun 29, 2026 and Oct 8, 2026, about one every 25 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v0.1.1 latest | 2026-10-08 | 016131f | 8,710 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.0 | 2026-10-08 | 4d58639 | 8,710 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.0 | 2026-07-10 | 7c08527 | 8,669 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.0 | 2026-07-01 | cd4c468 | 8,667 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.0 | 2026-06-29 | a70c96e | 8,652 B | A | view |
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 (8710 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
coreyhaines31/makerskills · 882 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-03 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_l3zlxyvgo5pcsf5p GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=coreyhaines31/makerskills/read-book GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d5a8532afea59bde8d953545f645c98f1b2f30d4382f0c442574f45e33d14fa5
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.