@gaoren7716: Of the 200 tech books you've read, how many chapters do you remember after 3 months? PDFs sit on your hard drive, unopened. Notes span 200 lines, never revisited. Ask an Agent, and it either hallucinates or says "I don't know this book." 3 ways to "use" a book: · Stuff it into Claude's context:…
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book-to-skill is an open-source tool that transforms technical books, documents, or collections into structured Agent skills. It supports on-demand chapter loading via GitHub Copilot CLI, Amp, and Claude Code, solving knowledge forgetting and hallucination issues.
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📚 book-to-skill
Turn any technical book, document folder, or collection of sources into a unified agent skill — ready to study, reference, and use while you work in GitHub Copilot CLI, Amp, or Claude Code.
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@NFTCPS: Attention bookworms! Those tech books gathering dust on your shelf finally have a purpose. A new open-source tool called book-to-skill just blew up on GitHub, racking up over 2700 Stars. Its approach is wild: just drop in a PDF or EPUB, it automatically extracts the table of contents, core concepts, and patterns, and generates a skill with one click. Later, just type "/书名技能" plus your topic, and it will flip through the book for you.
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@sitinme: Not just "have AI summarize a book", but go further: turning a book or a document package into a Skill that an AI Agent can repeatedly call. This idea is worth discussing. Previously, after buying and reading a book, when I later wanted to find a certain knowledge point, I couldn't find it after flipping through for a long time; asking AI might make things up; throwing the entire PD…
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