book-to-skill
book-to-skill is a skill that turns a technical book PDF into a structured skill your AI agent can search chapter by chapter, for people who want to reuse a book's content while they work.
What it is good for
- Turning a technical book PDF into searchable reference notes
- Recalling specific chapters of a book while working
- Querying internal docs or research papers without rereading them
- Reducing token use when asking an AI about long documents
At a glance
- Who it is for
- Setup
- Guided command-line setup
Level 4 of 5. You copy and paste commands into a terminal by following the instructions. Comfortable territory for vibe coders.
- Cost
- Free and open source
- Type
- Skill or plugin
- Tasks
- Works with
- GitHub Copilot CLI, Amp, Claude Code, Codex, Hermes Agent, OpenCode
Momentum
- Rank this week
- Not ranked yet
- Best rank
- None yet
- GitHub stars
- 36,744
GitHub numbers as of Nov 2, 2026. Updated weekly.
Official links
Setup steps are on the official pages. We do not repeat them here, since they change.
Questions
- Is book-to-skill free?
- Yes. It is free and open source (MIT license).
- Do I need to know how to code to use book-to-skill?
- You do not need to write code, but setup means copying and pasting commands into a terminal by following its instructions.
- What does book-to-skill work with?
- According to its own documentation, it works with GitHub Copilot CLI, Amp, Claude Code, Codex, Hermes Agent, and OpenCode.
- What is book-to-skill good for?
- Turning a technical book PDF into searchable reference notes, recalling specific chapters of a book while working, querying internal docs or research papers without rereading them, and reducing token use when asking an AI about long documents.
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