Agent skill

Book Publisher

by dmccreary in dmccreary/ibook-skills

Publishes and promotes a finished intelligent textbook - GitHub README with badges and site statistics, LinkedIn announcement posts, LinkedIn carousel document posts (PPTX/PDF slideshows), and…

CC-BY-NC-4.0Auto-check passedWriting & Content

Install Book Publisher

skills CLI
$ npx skills add dmccreary/ibook-skills --skill book-publisher -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install dmccreary/ibook-skills book-publisher --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/dmccreary/ibook-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/book-publisher .claude/skills/book-publisher && 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
book-publisher
GitHub stars
105
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
443 words
Files
11 (incl. scripts, references)
Skills in repo
32
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
CC-BY-NC-4.0

At a glance

Publishes and promotes a finished intelligent textbook - GitHub README with badges and site statistics, LinkedIn announcement posts, LinkedIn carousel document posts (PPTX/PDF slideshows), and…

  • Works in 3 steps: Identify Publishing Task → Ensure the Metrics Hub Is Fresh → Load the Matched Guide
  • Announcing a book milestone
  • SKILL.md covers Overview, When to Use This Skill, Step 1: Identify Publishing Task and Step 2: Ensure the Metrics Hub…, plus 3 more sections
  • Runs Python scripts from its folder; calls python3

What it does

Book Publisher is an agent skill from dmccreary/ibook-skills. Publishes and promotes a finished intelligent textbook - GitHub README with badges and site statistics, LinkedIn announcement posts, LinkedIn carousel document posts (PPTX/PDF slideshows), and AP-style press releases. Use when announcing a book milestone or updating repository documentation. Routes to the appropriate guide.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 12 other files, including scripts and reference files (for example `references/badges.md`, `references/carousel-content-sourcing.md` and `references/carousel-slide-patterns.md`).

It sits in Writing & Content, covering Copywriting, Infographics and PowerPoint presentations. It works with LinkedIn, Microsoft PowerPoint and GitHub.

When your agent uses it

  • Announcing a book milestone
  • Updating repository documentation

Example prompts

  • “Use the book-publisher skill to publish and promotes a finished intelligent textbook - GitHub README with badges and site statistics, LinkedIn…”
  • “/book-publisher”

Requirements

  • Python 3

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Identify Publishing Task
  2. Ensure the Metrics Hub Is Fresh
  3. Load the Matched Guide

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 4c58491. 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

    Ships 3 files in scripts/ (Python), which the agent can run.

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • python3

    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

Book Publisher loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs, and up to ~25k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 85 tokens; SKILL.md has 443 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~85
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.3k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~25k

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); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Its licence (CC-BY-NC-4.0) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 443 words (~1,266 tokens).

name
book-publisher
license
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
metadata.ibook.version
1.0
metadata.ibook.preferred-model
sonnet

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 10 other files (scripts, references) in skills/book-publisher of dmccreary/ibook-skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/badges.md
  • references/carousel-content-sourcing.md
  • references/carousel-slide-patterns.md
  • references/linkedin-carousel-guide.md
  • references/linkedin-post-guide.md
  • references/press-release-guide.md
  • references/readme-guide.md
  • scripts/collect-site-metrics.py
  • scripts/crop-screenshot.py
  • scripts/validate-readme.py

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 4c58491

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Documentsmagnus919/agent-skills115—~2.3kAutomated safety check: PassMIT

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Questions about Book Publisher

What does Book Publisher do?

Publishes and promotes a finished intelligent textbook - GitHub README with badges and site statistics, LinkedIn announcement posts, LinkedIn carousel document posts (PPTX/PDF slideshows), and…. Book Publisher is an agent skill from dmccreary/ibook-skills. Publishes and promotes a finished intelligent textbook - GitHub README with badges and site statistics, LinkedIn announcement posts, LinkedIn carousel document posts (PPTX/PDF slideshows), and AP-style press releases.

When should I use Book Publisher?

Book Publisher fits situations like: announcing a book milestone; updating repository documentation.

How do I install Book Publisher in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Book Publisher in Codex?

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

Can I use Book Publisher 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 dmccreary/ibook-skills --skill book-publisher -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/book-publisher, .gemini/skills/book-publisher, .github/skills/book-publisher and .opencode/skills/book-publisher in your project.

What does Book Publisher need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Book Publisher needs Python for the scripts in its folder and the command-line tools its instructions call (python3). Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Book Publisher 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 Book Publisher 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. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.

What licence does Book Publisher use?

Book Publisher is published under the CC-BY-NC-4.0 licence (declared in SKILL.md).

How many tokens does Book Publisher use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.1k 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 24k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Book Publisher?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Book Publisher: Persian Writing (ali2000hos/persian-writing, 368 stars), PPTX Generator (coleam00/ai-transformation-workshop, 147 stars), Publish To Pages (github/awesome-copilot, 40k stars) and Anydoc (magnus919/agent-skills, 115 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Book Publisher?

dmccreary (a GitHub user) maintains it in dmccreary/ibook-skills, which has 105 GitHub stars. The repository holds 32 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 10, 2026.

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