Category: Productivity
Book to Skill
Converts books and documents (PDF, EPUB, DOCX, and more) into reusable agent skills of frameworks, principles, and anti-patterns.
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What it does
- Reads PDF, EPUB, DOCX, HTML, Markdown, MOBI, and more
- Extracts the author's frameworks, mental models, principles, techniques, and anti-patterns
- Packages them as a skill agents can apply while working
When to use it
Great for having your agent apply methods from a book you value.
How to install
- Run the command below in your terminal. Pick the agents you use (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, and more) and it installs into the right folder.
npx skills add https://github.com/virgiliojr94/book-to-skill --skill book-to-skill
- To install manually, download the
book-to-skillskill folder from the GitHub repository and copy it into your agent's skills folder, such as~/.claude/skills/or.cursor/skills/. - Ask your agent for a related task and the skill is used automatically.