Openai PDF

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Tasks involve reading
• Reviewing PDF files where rendering and layout matter
• Prefer visual checks by rendering pages (Poppler) and use Python tools such as reportlab
• Pypdf for generation and extraction

Example prompts

• “/openai-pdf”

Requirements

• Python 3
• Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Bash, Read, Grep, Glob, Write, Edit

Workflow steps

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

1. 1Prefer visual review: render PDF pages to PNGs and inspect them.
2. 2Use reportlab to generate PDFs when creating new documents.
3. 3Use pdfplumber (or pypdf) for text extraction and quick checks; do not rely on it for layout fidelity.
4. 4After each meaningful update, re-render pages and verify alignment, spacing, and legibility.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 6d05be4. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

  • Bash
  • Read
  • Grep
  • Glob
  • Write
  • Edit

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • uv
  • python3
  • brew
  • apt-get
  • pdftoppm

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

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use uv, 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

Openai PDF loads about 669 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 77 tokens; SKILL.md has 273 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~77

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~669

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

• NoteRuns commands with sudoSKILL.md:52

  sudo apt-get install -y poppler-utils

• NotePre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: Bash)SKILL.md

  allowed-tools: Bash, Read, Grep, Glob, Write, Edit

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 trailofbits/skills-curated at commit 6d05be4, republished under its CC-BY-SA-4.0 licence (© trailofbits). 273 words, ~669 tokens.

name

openai-pdf

description

Use when tasks involve reading, creating, or reviewing PDF files where rendering and layout matter; prefer visual checks by rendering pages (Poppler) and use Python tools such as `reportlab`, `pdfplumber`, and `pypdf` for generation and extraction. Originally from OpenAI's curated skills catalog.

allowed-tools

Bash, Read, Grep, Glob, Write, Edit

uv pip install reportlab pdfplumber pypdf

python3 -m pip install reportlab pdfplumber pypdf

# macOS (Homebrew)
brew install poppler

# Ubuntu/Debian
sudo apt-get install -y poppler-utils

pdftoppm -png $INPUT_PDF $OUTPUT_PREFIX

<!-- TODO: review -->

© trailofbits, CC-BY-SA-4.0. 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 plugins/openai-pdf/skills/openai-pdf of trailofbits/skills-curated.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6d05be4

Used in 9 other repositories

We found 9 copies of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 9 other GitHub owners. This page covers the copy in trailofbits/skills-curated, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

• JetBrains/skillsopenai-pdf
• Haohao-end/openagentapi/internal/core/skills/catalog/pdf
• fcakyon/claude-codex-settingsplugins/openai-office-skills/skills/pdf
• letta-ai/skillstools/pdf
• julianromli/ai-skillsskills/pdf
• MemTensor/memmy-agentApp/memmy-agent/src/skills/pdf
• lingxling/awesome-skills-cnopenai-skills/skills/.curated/pdf
• foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skillsbundled/skills/pdf
• AI45Lab/OpenARTopenart-tools/skill.pdf