Agent skill

Summarize Anything

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Turn a long article, email thread, document, or transcript into a tight summary you can act on — the gist, the key points, and what it means for you.

MITAuto-check passedWriting & Content

Install Summarize Anything

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill summarize-anything -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills summarize-anything --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/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/summarize-anything .claude/skills/summarize-anything && 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
summarize-anything
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~809 tokens
SKILL.md length
399 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,348
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Turn a long article, email thread, document, or transcript into a tight summary you can act on — the gist, the key points, and what it means for you.

  • Works in 5 steps: Faithful first. Every point traces to… → Lead with the answer. The TL;DR is the… → Keep the load-bearing caveat. The "but… → …
  • Give me the gist
  • SKILL.md covers What This Skill Produces, Required Inputs, Framework: Compress Without… and Output Format, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Summarize Anything is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Turn a long article, email thread, document, or transcript into a tight summary you can act on — the gist, the key points, and what it means for you. Use when asked for a TL;DR, to summarize this, give me the gist, or the key takeaways. Produces a one-line TL;DR, the key points as scannable bullets, any decisions/action items with owners, and open questions — faithful to the source, with nothing invented and important caveats kept.

Its SKILL.md is about 810 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Writing & Content, covering Summarization. The repository describes itself as: 1255 professional Agent Skills for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor & Codex — PRDs, postmortems, leases, medical bills, layoffs, go-bags, new countries. Plain markdown, MIT, in… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Give me the gist
  • The key takeaways

Example prompts

  • “/summarize-anything”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Faithful first. Every point traces to the source; nothing is added, sharpened, or invented.
  2. Lead with the answer. The TL;DR is the conclusion, not "this document discusses…".
  3. Keep the load-bearing caveat. The "but only if…" is often the whole point — never drop it for brevity.
  4. Separate fact from opinion. Note when a "point" is the author's claim vs. established fact.
  5. Make threads actionable. Who decided what, who's on the hook, what's still open.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1cbf1f0. 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

Summarize Anything loads about 809 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 114 tokens; SKILL.md has 399 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~114
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~809

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 mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills at commit 1cbf1f0, republished under its MIT licence (© mohitagw15856). 399 words, ~809 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/summarize-anything/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
summarize-anything
description
Turn a long article, email thread, document, or transcript into a tight summary you can act on — the gist, the key points, and what it means for you. Use when asked for a TL;DR, to summarize this, give me the gist, or the key takeaways. Produces a one-line TL;DR, the key points as scannable bullets, any decisions/action items with owners, and open questions — faithful to the source, with nothing invented and important caveats kept.

Summarize Anything

A summary is only useful if you can trust it — which means it can't quietly drop the caveat that changes everything or invent a takeaway that wasn't there. This compresses hard while staying faithful: the one-line gist for the busy, the key points for the skimmer, and — for threads and meetings — the decisions and who-owes-what, so a summary becomes something you can act on, not just a shorter read.

What This Skill Produces

  • TL;DR — one line, the single most important thing
  • Key points — the 3–7 that carry the meaning, as scannable bullets
  • Decisions & action items — for threads/meetings: what was decided, who owns what, by when
  • Open questions / caveats — what's unresolved or conditional (kept, not smoothed away)

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:

  • The source — paste the text (article, thread, doc, transcript)
  • What you need from it — just the gist, or the decisions, or "should I read the whole thing?"
  • Length — one-liner, a paragraph, or the fuller structured version

Framework: Compress Without Distorting

  1. Faithful first. Every point traces to the source; nothing is added, sharpened, or invented.
  2. Lead with the answer. The TL;DR is the conclusion, not "this document discusses…".
  3. Keep the load-bearing caveat. The "but only if…" is often the whole point — never drop it for brevity.
  4. Separate fact from opinion. Note when a "point" is the author's claim vs. established fact.
  5. Make threads actionable. Who decided what, who's on the hook, what's still open.
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Output Format

TL;DR

One sentence.

Key points
  • …
Decisions & actions (threads/meetings)
Decision / actionOwnerBy
Open / caveats
  • …

Quality Checks

  • Every point is supported by the source — nothing invented or overstated
  • The TL;DR is the actual conclusion, not a topic label
  • Load-bearing caveats/conditions are preserved
  • For threads/meetings, decisions and owners are pulled out
  • The author's claims are distinguished from established facts where it matters

Anti-Patterns

  • Inventing a takeaway that sounds good but isn't in the source.
  • Dropping the caveat that flips the meaning, in the name of brevity.
  • "This article discusses…" throat-clearing instead of the actual point.
  • Presenting opinion as fact by stripping the hedges the author used.

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "TL;DR this article: [paste]"
  • "Summarize this email thread and tell me what I need to do."
  • "Give me the key takeaways from this transcript."
  • "What's the gist of this doc — is it worth reading fully?"
  • "Pull the decisions and action items out of these meeting notes."

© mohitagw15856, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/summarize-anything of mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Questions about Summarize Anything

What does Summarize Anything do?

Turn a long article, email thread, document, or transcript into a tight summary you can act on — the gist, the key points, and what it means for you. Summarize Anything is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Turn a long article, email thread, document, or transcript into a tight summary you can act on — the gist, the key points, and what it means for you.

When should I use Summarize Anything?

Summarize Anything fits situations like: give me the gist; the key takeaways.

How do I install Summarize Anything in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill summarize-anything -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/summarize-anything in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .claude/skills/summarize-anything in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Summarize Anything in Codex?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill summarize-anything -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/summarize-anything in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .agents/skills/summarize-anything in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Summarize Anything 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 mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill summarize-anything -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/summarize-anything, .gemini/skills/summarize-anything, .github/skills/summarize-anything and .opencode/skills/summarize-anything in your project.

What does Summarize Anything need to run?

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

Does Summarize Anything 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 Summarize Anything 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 Summarize Anything use?

Summarize Anything is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Summarize Anything use?

About 809 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.2k 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 Summarize Anything?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Summarize Anything: News Aggregator Skill (cclank/news-aggregator-skill, 1.3k stars), AI Daily News (geekjourneyx/ai-daily-skill, 235 stars), Vss Search Archive (NVIDIA-AI-Blueprints/video-search-and-summarization, 1.9k stars) and Analyzer (iBigQiang/feedgrab, 614 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Summarize Anything?

mohitagw15856 (a GitHub user) maintains it in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, which has 1,434 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,348 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.