Open Source 'book-to-skill': Turns Tech Books into Structured Skills, Saving 50x Tokens
Teknium · x · 2026-08-08
The popular GitHub project book-to-skill transforms any technical book, document folder, or source collection into a unified agent skill, ready for study, reference, and work.
Key Features & How it Works:
- Extreme Token Efficiency: Uses 24×–51× fewer tokens than dumping the entire book into the context window to answer a single question.
- Structural Distillation: Running /book-to-skill ./my-book.pdf distills the book into frameworks, decision rules, anti-patterns, and per-chapter files. It outputs structure, not just a summary.
- On-Demand Loading: Your agent loads the generated skill on demand during tasks.
The project has amassed over 18,000 stars on GitHub and is compatible with environments like GitHub Copilot CLI, Amp, and Claude Code.
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