Use when tasks involve reading, creating, or reviewing PDF files where rendering and layout matter; prefer visual checks by rendering pages (Poppler) and use Python tools such as `reportlab`, `pdfplumber`, and `pypdf` for generation and extraction.
Install / Use
npx skills add openai/skills --skill pdfInstalls into whichever agent you are using.
SKILL.md
Installable skill definition
Quality Score
Category
AutomationSupported Platforms
Our assessment of pdf
pdf scores 90/100 on our quality scale, 526th of 1,267 Automation skills we index (top 42%).
We have not analysed the SKILL.md file itself yet, so the content part of this score is an estimate until our crawler reaches it.
With 27,599 GitHub stars, it is one of the more widely adopted skills in the catalogue.
Maintenance, license and trust
- The repository was last updated 17 days ago, so pdf is actively maintained.
- No license is declared. By default that means all rights are reserved: you can read it, but reusing or redistributing it is not clearly permitted. Ask the author before building on it commercially.
- Its trust signals score 88/100, with 1 caution from licensing, adoption, age or documentation. These come from repository metadata, not a code audit — read the skill file before letting an agent act on it.
pdf compared with similar skills
All 4 of these similar skills score higher than pdf; compare them before choosing.
| Skill | Score | Stars | Updated | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pdf (this skill)by openai | 90 | 27.6k | 17d ago | SKILL.md |
| Agent-Reachby Panniantong | 100 | 85.4k | 10d ago | CLAUDE.md |
| headroomby headroomlabs-ai | 100 | 73.8k | today | CLAUDE.md |
| rufloby ruvnet | 100 | 73.3k | 1d ago | CLAUDE.md |
| Scraplingby D4Vinci | 100 | 83.7k | today | MCP Server |
Frequently asked questions
- How do I install pdf?
- Run
npx skills add openai/skills --skill pdf. The install tabs above show the steps for each supported agent. - Which AI agents does pdf work with?
- It is written for Universal, as a SKILL.md file. Other agents that read the same format can often use it too.
- Is pdf safe to use?
- It declares no license and scores 88/100 on trust signals. Skills are instructions an agent will follow, so read the file before installing it and do not approve commands you do not understand.
- Is pdf still maintained?
- The repository was last updated 17 days ago, so pdf is actively maintained.
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Trust signals
From repository metadata: license, adoption, age and documentation. Not a code audit — see the Safety scan above for what the skill file itself contains.