@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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