Agent skill · nousresearch
document-to-action-items
Extract cited obligations, deadlines, tasks from documents.
What it needs
About 2k tokens when loaded.
What this skill does
Document to Action Items Turn documents into cited facts and proposed actions. Extraction is not legal advice, and low-confidence OCR or ambiguous language must remain visible. The pdf / pdf / docx skills own extraction mechanics; this skill owns what happens to the extracted content. When to Use "Extract deadlines and obligations from this contract." "Turn this report into tasks." "Read these scanned forms and structure the data." "Find risks, owners, and follow-ups in these attachments." Don't use for: plain text extraction with no downstream structuring (load pdf directly). Procedure 1. Inventory the document set Use readfile for local files and webextract for URLs to identify files, versions, dates, page counts, language, scan quality, and the requested output schema. Detect duplicate/revised copies before analysis. Done when the authoritative or latest version is known or ambiguity is stated. 2. Extract with provenance Load pdf, pdf, or docx. Extract text/tables while retaining file and page/section coordinates. For scans, record OCR confidence or visible quality issues. Done when every extracted field can cite its source location. 3. Classify evidence Separate: parties/entities and identifiers dates and deadlines money/quantities obligations and prohibitions approvals and signatures risks/exceptions factual background ambiguous or unreadable clauses Do not collapse "may," "should," and "must." Done when modality and uncertainty are preserved. 4. Validate internally Cross-check dates, totals, repeated names, table sums, defined terms, and references to appendices. Surface contradictions rather than choosing silently. Done when key facts have consistency checks or explicit exceptions. 5. Convert to proposed actions For each actionable obligation create outcome, owner if explicit, due date if explicit, dependency, acceptance condition, risk, and citation. Unknown owners/dates remain unresolved — never invented. …
How to use it
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