book-to-skill turns technical book PDFs into agent skills, cutting token use 24x-51x
tom_doerr · x · 2026-10-03
- book-to-skill (33.3k stars on GitHub) converts any technical book PDF, document folder, or source collection into a unified agent skill that Claude Code, GitHub Copilot CLI, Amp, Hermes Agent, OpenCode, or OpenClaw can study, reference, and use while you work.
- Key claim: 24x-51x fewer tokens than dumping the whole book into context to answer one question, measured on real books with a published methodology.
- Three-step pipeline parses the book, generates a structured skill, and serves it on demand in coding-agent workflows; includes evals, tests, and multilingual docs.
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