Agent skill

Douban Book Notes

by digoal in digoal/blog

Generate a source-backed, shareable Chinese Markdown reading note from a Douban book URL.

GPL-2.0Auto-check passedDocuments & Office

Install Douban Book Notes

skills CLI
$ npx skills add digoal/blog --skill douban-book-notes -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install digoal/blog douban-book-notes --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/digoal/blog.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/douban-book-notes .claude/skills/douban-book-notes && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
douban-book-notes
GitHub stars
8.6k
Token cost
~1.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
579 words
Files
3 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
98
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
GPL-2.0

At a glance

Generate a source-backed, shareable Chinese Markdown reading note from a Douban book URL.

  • Works in 7 steps: Parse the Douban URL and identify the… → Search the web for high-quality… → Keep only reliable materials. Prefer… → …
  • The user provides a Douban book link and asks for 读书笔记
  • SKILL.md covers Goal, Workflow, Research Rules and Required Output, plus 1 more section
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Douban Book Notes is an agent skill from digoal/blog. Generate a source-backed, shareable Chinese Markdown reading note from a Douban book URL. Use when the user provides a Douban book link and asks for 读书笔记, book notes, book summary, reading reflection, 图文并茂笔记, or a Markdown article that combines book metadata, high-quality external research, the author's argument, evidence, logic, assumptions, insights, transferability, and personal reflection saved under the current project's markdown directory.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 4 other files, including reference files (for example `agents/openai.yaml` and `references/note_framework.md`).

It sits in Documents & Office, covering Markdown. The repository describes itself as: AI,Opensource,Database,Business,Finance,Minds. git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/digoal/blog. The licence is GPL-2.0.

When your agent uses it

  • The user provides a Douban book link and asks for 读书笔记
  • Reading reflection
  • A Markdown article that combines book metadata
  • High-quality external research

Example prompts

  • “/douban-book-notes”

Workflow steps

7 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Parse the Douban URL and identify the exact book: title, author, translator if any, publisher, publication year, ISBN, original title, and…
  2. Search the web for high-quality materials about the book, author, historical context, interviews, reviews, lecture notes, academic or…
  3. Keep only reliable materials. Prefer primary or near-primary sources: publisher pages, author interviews, official talks, academic…
  4. Read the book's public metadata and the selected materials. If the full book text is unavailable, state that limitation and avoid…
  5. Load references/note_framework.md for the note structure, quality bar, and visual ideas.
  6. Synthesize the final Markdown in Chinese unless the user explicitly asks for another language. Combine sourced facts, source-grounded…
  7. Save the Markdown under the current project's markdown/ directory. Create the directory if missing. Use a filename like…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit ad6fcb7. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Douban Book Notes loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs, and up to ~2.8k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 117 tokens; SKILL.md has 579 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~117
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.2k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~2.8k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from digoal/blog at commit ad6fcb7, republished under its GPL-2.0 licence (© digoal). 579 words, ~1,161 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/douban-book-notes/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 2 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
douban-book-notes
description
Generate a source-backed, shareable Chinese Markdown reading note from a Douban book URL. Use when the user provides a Douban book link and asks for 读书笔记, book notes, book summary, reading reflection, 图文并茂笔记, or a Markdown article that combines book metadata, high-quality external research, the author's argument, evidence, logic, assumptions, insights, transferability, and personal reflection saved under the current project's markdown directory.

Douban Book Notes

Goal

Create a rigorous, shareable Chinese reading note from one book's Douban URL. Treat the note as something the user can review personally, publish as an article, or explain aloud to others.

Workflow

  1. Parse the Douban URL and identify the exact book: title, author, translator if any, publisher, publication year, ISBN, original title, and edition caveats.
  2. Search the web for high-quality materials about the book, author, historical context, interviews, reviews, lecture notes, academic or professional commentary, and official publisher information. Browse current sources; do not rely only on memory.
  3. Keep only reliable materials. Prefer primary or near-primary sources: publisher pages, author interviews, official talks, academic reviews, serious media reviews, reputable book reviews, and high-signal long-form essays. Avoid low-effort summaries, unsourced listicles, scraped review farms, and anonymous content unless used only as weak sentiment context.
  4. Read the book's public metadata and the selected materials. If the full book text is unavailable, state that limitation and avoid pretending to have read non-public chapters verbatim.
  5. Load references/note_framework.md for the note structure, quality bar, and visual ideas.
  6. Synthesize the final Markdown in Chinese unless the user explicitly asks for another language. Combine sourced facts, source-grounded interpretation, and your own clearly labeled thinking.
  7. Save the Markdown under the current project's markdown/ directory. Create the directory if missing. Use a filename like YYYYMMDD-book-notes-<book-title-slug>.md.

Research Rules

  • Use direct citations with links for important factual claims, publication metadata, author statements, statistics, historical claims, and controversial interpretations.
  • Separate fact, source interpretation, and your own inference. Use wording such as "资料显示", "评论者认为", "我的判断是".
  • Cross-check core metadata and claims across at least two sources when possible.
  • Quote sparingly. Use short excerpts only when the wording itself matters; otherwise paraphrase and cite.
  • If search results are thin, say so and write a more cautious note instead of padding.
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Required Output

The Markdown note must include:

  • Title, book metadata, source list, and a short shareable abstract.
  • Historical and intellectual context: what problem the book responds to, and why it mattered then and matters now.
  • Author's central claims: distinguish main thesis, secondary claims, and implicit values.
  • Evidence map: data, cases, stories, concepts, and authorities the author uses to support the claims.
  • 1-3 condensed examples from the book: extract representative cases, scenes, stories, experiments, or examples that best carry the author's thinking. Keep them short, explain what each example proves, and avoid inventing details unavailable from the book or reliable sources.
  • Logic map: how the argument moves from premises to conclusion.
  • Assumption check: what must be true for the argument to hold, where it may fail, and what counterarguments matter.
  • Thought reconstruction: what the author is really trying to change in the reader's perception or behavior.
  • What I learned: concrete insights, not generic praise.
  • Transfer and application: how to use the book's ideas in other domains, with examples.
  • Reflection: agreement, disagreement, blind spots, and questions worth discussing.
  • Share-ready section: a 3-5 minute talk track, discussion questions, and one-line takeaway.
  • Visuals: include at least two useful visuals in Markdown, Mermaid, ASCII table, or inline SVG. Use visuals to explain structure, chronology, comparison, argument flow, or concept relationships.

Quality Bar

  • Be analytical, not a chapter-by-chapter digest.
  • Make the author's logic visible enough that a reader can teach it to someone else.
  • Do not overstate certainty. Call out uncertainty, missing evidence, and source limitations.
  • Keep the prose publishable: clear section headings, dense but readable paragraphs, and no filler.
  • End with a concise bibliography or source notes section.

© digoal, GPL-2.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files (references) in skills/douban-book-notes of digoal/blog.

  • SKILL.md
  • agents/openai.yaml
  • references/note_framework.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit ad6fcb7

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Questions about Douban Book Notes

What does Douban Book Notes do?

Generate a source-backed, shareable Chinese Markdown reading note from a Douban book URL. Douban Book Notes is an agent skill from digoal/blog. Generate a source-backed, shareable Chinese Markdown reading note from a Douban book URL.

When should I use Douban Book Notes?

Douban Book Notes fits situations like: the user provides a Douban book link and asks for 读书笔记; reading reflection; A Markdown article that combines book metadata; high-quality external research.

How do I install Douban Book Notes in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add digoal/blog --skill douban-book-notes -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/douban-book-notes in digoal/blog) into .claude/skills/douban-book-notes in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Douban Book Notes in Codex?

Run `npx skills add digoal/blog --skill douban-book-notes -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/douban-book-notes in digoal/blog) into .agents/skills/douban-book-notes in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Douban Book Notes in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add digoal/blog --skill douban-book-notes -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/douban-book-notes, .gemini/skills/douban-book-notes, .github/skills/douban-book-notes and .opencode/skills/douban-book-notes in your project.

What does Douban Book Notes need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Douban Book Notes is instructions for the agent only.

Does Douban Book Notes access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Douban Book Notes safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Douban Book Notes use?

Douban Book Notes is published under the GPL-2.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Douban Book Notes use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.6k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 1.6k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Douban Book Notes?

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Who maintains Douban Book Notes?

digoal (a GitHub user) maintains it in digoal/blog, which has 8,586 GitHub stars. The repository holds 98 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: digoal/blog on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.