pdf SKILL.md skillA
pdf from protolabsai/protoagent is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add protolabsai/protoagent/pdf@git:20261006.9b4f42fPins git:20261006.9b4f42f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- protolabsai/protoagent
- Path
plugins/cowork/skills/pdf/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261006.9b4f42f, committed Oct 6, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 12, 2026
- Size
- 2,623 bytes
- Repository stars
- 17
- License
- MIT
Read, extract from, combine, split, watermark, fill, or produce PDF files. Use whenever a .pdf is the input or the deliverable — merging reports, pulling text or tables out, rotating scans, filling forms, or generating a polished PDF from content.
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
# PDFs with pypdf (+ reportlab for generation)
Two different jobs, two libraries — both via `execute_code`:
## Manipulating existing PDFs — pypdf
```python
from pypdf import PdfReader, PdfWriter
# extract text
text = "\n".join(page.extract_text() for page in PdfReader(src).pages)
# merge
w = PdfWriter()
for part in [a, b, c]:
w.append(part)
w.write(out)
# split / rotate / subset
w = PdfWriter()
for page in PdfReader(src).pages[2:5]:
page.rotate(90)
w.add_page(page)
w.write(out)
```
Also: form fill (`w.update_page_form_field_values`), encrypt/decrypt
(`w.encrypt(pwd)` / `PdfReader(src, password=pwd)`), metadata
(`reader.metadata`), attachments and watermarks (`page.merge_page(stamp)`).
**Scanned PDFs**: `extract_text()` returning almost nothing means image-only
pages. Say so plainly and offer what's available (OCR only if an OCR tool is
actually installed — check, don't assume).
## Producing new PDFs — reportlab
For a *generated* deliverable (report, one-pager, cover sheet):
```python
from reportlab.lib.pagesizes import LETTER
from reportlab.lib.styles import getSampleStyleSheet
from reportlab.platypus import SimpleDocTemplate, Paragraph, Spacer
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add protolabsai/protoagent/pdf@sha256:b50e918e1229e8b1The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261006.9b4f42f, 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_uucym4dtq7fi2o56)
3 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.
Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Sep 12, 2026 and Oct 6, 2026, about one every 24 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261006.9b4f42f latest | 2026-10-06 | 9b4f42f | 2,623 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260912.42516ad | 2026-09-12 | 42516ad | 2,627 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 (2623 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
protolabsai/protoagent · 17 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_uucym4dtq7fi2o56 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=protolabsai/protoagent/pdf GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b50e918e1229e8b17f47be036d20d8f926f4e39ec85983349574afded9d648ab
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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