book-to-skill hits 37.8k stars: turn any technical book PDF into a coding agent skill
tom_doerr · x · 2026-11-14
book-to-skill is a trending open-source GitHub project (37.8k stars, 4k forks, MIT) that converts any technical book, document folder, or source collection into a unified agent skill for Claude Code, GitHub Copilot CLI, Codex, Amp, OpenCode and other coding agents.
Key points:
- Accepts PDF, EPUB, DOCX, MD, HTML, RTF, MOBI inputs; agent skills are an open standard
- Measured 24×–51× fewer tokens than dumping the whole book into context to answer one question
- Hit GitHub Trending #1/#2 repository of the day; global rank #900
- Ships with evals, SKILL.md, multilingual README; positioned for context engineering and knowledge-base workflows
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