Agent skill · alirezarezvani
book-to-skill
Use when turning a book, docs folder or spec collection (PDF, EPUB, DOCX, HTML, Markdown) into an agent skill, before summarizing it by hand. Extracts with extract_document.py, compiles chapters, glossary and cheatsheet, validates with book_skill_validator.py and enforces a rights gate.
What it needs
About 7k tokens when loaded.
What this skill does
Book-to-Skill Converter Turn written knowledge into an agent skill by extracting structure, not summaries. A book is crystallized expertise: frameworks, principles, techniques that took years to develop. Read once, forgotten. The workarounds all fail — PDF search returns page numbers instead of answers, an agent handed the raw file hallucinates or drowns, reading notes rot. This skill compiles a source into a knowledge base the agent loads on demand: a small resident core, one chapter file at a time, and never the whole book again. What it produces: File Contents Budget ------ ---------- -------- SKILL.md Core frameworks + chapter index + topic index < 4,000 tokens (resident) chapters/chNN-.md One summary per chapter 800–3,000 tokens, on demand glossary.md Every significant term, alphabetized, with chapter < 1,500 tokens patterns.md Techniques and design patterns with trade-offs < 2,000 tokens cheatsheet.md Decision rules, thresholds, trade-off matrices < 1,200 tokens Beyond books: anything referenced often enough to be worth memorizing — internal documentation, brand systems, standards, specs, research clusters, a folder of RFCs. --- Philosophy Extract structure, not summaries. A skill is not a book report. It is a toolkit of named frameworks, actionable principles, step-by-step techniques, anti-patterns, and the author's voice. Preserve the author's precision. Framework names are interfaces. "The 5 Whys" is not interchangeable with "ask why a few times" — the exact formulation is what makes lookup work. Layer depth appropriately. A thin book gets a thin skill. A book with fifteen frameworks gets chapter files and a real topic index. Never reproduce the source at length. These are structured notes. Synthesize, compress, name — do not copy passages. See references/rightsandprovenance.md. --- Modes Mode Trigger Runs ------ --------- ------ 1. Full conversion (default) One or more paths, no special instruction Steps 0–10 2. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills alirezarezvani/book-to-skill--537846