Agent skill

Book Mirror

by inbrainfun in inbrainfun/inbrain

Take any book (EPUB/PDF), produce a personalized chapter-by-chapter analysis with two-column tables.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedDocuments & Office

Install Book Mirror

skills CLI
$ npx skills add inbrainfun/inbrain --skill book-mirror -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install inbrainfun/inbrain book-mirror --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/inbrainfun/inbrain.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/book-mirror .claude/skills/book-mirror && 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-mirror
GitHub stars
142
Token cost
~3.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,338 words
Files
2
Skills in repo
52
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Take any book (EPUB/PDF), produce a personalized chapter-by-chapter analysis with two-column tables.

  • Works in 6 steps: Acquiring the book → Text extraction → Context gathering → …
  • Tasks that involve PDF
  • SKILL.md covers What this does, Trust contract (read this…, The pipeline and 1. Acquiring the book, plus 12 more sections
  • Calls python3, pdftotext and pip3

What it does

Book Mirror is an agent skill from inbrainfun/inbrain. Take any book (EPUB/PDF), produce a personalized chapter-by-chapter analysis with two-column tables. Left column preserves the chapter content; right column maps every idea to the reader's actual life using brain context. Output is a single brain page at media/books/<slug-personalized.md plus an optional PDF via brain-pdf.

Its SKILL.md is about 3.3k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 1 other file.

It sits in Documents & Office, covering PDF.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve PDF

Example prompts

  • “/book-mirror”

Requirements

  • Python 3

Workflow steps

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

  1. Acquiring the book
  2. Text extraction
  3. Context gathering
  4. Analysis: invoke inbrain book-mirror
  5. PDF (optional)
  6. Fact-check and cross-link

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 5231990. 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

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • python3
    • pdftotext
    • pip3

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

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use pip3, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

    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 Mirror loads about 3.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 84 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,338 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~84
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~3.3k

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

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 1,338 words (~3,296 tokens).

“Given a book (EPUB or PDF), produce a brain page where every chapter is summarized in detail on the left and mirrored back to the reader's actual life on the right, using their own words, situations, people, and patterns from…”

— opening of SKILL.md by inbrainfun, Custom licence
name
book-mirror
version
0.1.0
triggers
personalized version of this book, mirror this book, two-column book analysis, apply this book to my life, how does this book apply to me
mutating
true
writes_pages
true
writes_to
media/books/

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file in skills/book-mirror of inbrainfun/inbrain.

  • SKILL.md
  • routing-eval.jsonl

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 5231990

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Questions about Book Mirror

What does Book Mirror do?

Take any book (EPUB/PDF), produce a personalized chapter-by-chapter analysis with two-column tables. Book Mirror is an agent skill from inbrainfun/inbrain. Take any book (EPUB/PDF), produce a personalized chapter-by-chapter analysis with two-column tables.

When should I use Book Mirror?

Book Mirror fits situations like: tasks that involve PDF.

How do I install Book Mirror in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Book Mirror in Codex?

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

Can I use Book Mirror 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 inbrainfun/inbrain --skill book-mirror -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-mirror, .gemini/skills/book-mirror, .github/skills/book-mirror and .opencode/skills/book-mirror in your project.

What does Book Mirror need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Book Mirror needs the command-line tools its instructions call (python3, pdftotext and pip3). Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Book Mirror 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 Mirror 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 Book Mirror use?

Book Mirror has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Book Mirror use?

About 3.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 13k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Book Mirror?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Book Mirror: Markitdown (ImCa0/just-laws, 781 stars), Gzh Design (isjiamu/gzh-design-skill, 3.9k stars), GenOffice Document CLI (genspark-ai/genoffice, 8.9k stars) and Harness Book Best Practice (wquguru/harness-books, 3.2k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Book Mirror?

inbrainfun (a GitHub user) maintains it in inbrainfun/inbrain, which has 142 GitHub stars. The repository holds 52 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on July 17, 2026.

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