book-to-skill
by virgiliojr94
book-to-skill converts a technical book PDF, a folder of documents or a set of files into a structured skill that AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex and GitHub Copilot CLI can load on demand. It is meant for looking up and studying material from the real text rather than relying on the agent's memory.
- Stars
- 36.2k +54 a day
- Licence
- MIT
- Runs on
- Your computer
- Setup
- Moderate
- Language
- Python
- Age
- 179 days
What you can do with it
- Turn a technical book PDF into a skill with chapter files, a glossary, patterns and a cheatsheet
- Fold internal documentation, brand guidelines or specs into one skill your agent can query
- Ask your agent about a specific topic and have it answer from the relevant chapter
Make money with it
A freelancer could offer to convert a client's documentation or manuals into agent skills as a paid knowledge-base setup service.
An idea, not financial advice. Check the licence before charging for anything built on it.
Ways a business could use it
- Turn internal runbooks, onboarding guides and specs into a skill so staff and agents find answers quickly instead of searching long documents
- Convert a brand or voice guidelines document into a skill that a freelancer or small team can query while producing client work
Can you use it commercially?
Free to use, change and sell, including in paid products. Keep the copyright notice.
Not legal advice. Read the project's licence file before building a product on it.
Getting it running
It is installed as an agent skill with a Python extractor and run from inside a supported agent such as Claude Code; the README points to docs/install.md for the steps.
Follow the official instructions in the project README.
Things to check
- Needs a separate AI agent host, which may involve paid subscriptions or API usage
- Only use books and documents you have the right to process; copyrighted books may carry licence limits
- Token savings figures are the author's own measurements
Checked 27 Oct 2026. Summary drafted by AI from the project's README.
