@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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Introduces a tool called book-to-skill that converts books or document packages into AI Agent callable Skills. It supports PDF and other formats, generates SKILL.md and chapter indexes, avoiding loading the full context at once.

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 PDF in would easily blow out the context with hundreds of pages, and token consumption would be high. Then I came across this tool: book-to-skill, which "digests" a book by breaking it apart. It can handle PDF, EPUB, DOCX, Markdown, and other files, and then converts the book into a Skill that Claude Code can call. After generation, there's a SKILL.md file containing the core framework and chapter index of the entire book; each chapter is split into a separate file, along with a glossary, pattern table, and quick reference table. The advantage is that it doesn't stuff the entire book into the context every time; instead, it only reads the part you ask about.
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Instead of just “asking AI to summarize a book”, go one step further: turn a book or a document package into a Skill that an AI Agent can repeatedly call upon. I think this idea is worth discussing.

You buy a book, read it, and then a while later want to find a specific piece of knowledge from it — but flipping through pages takes forever. You ask an AI, and it might just make things up. Throw the whole PDF in there? Hundreds of pages easily blow up the context window, and the token burn is real.

Then I came across this tool: book-to-skill. It “chunks and digests” a book. It can handle PDF, EPUB, DOCX, Markdown, and other files, then converts the book into a Skill callable by Claude Code.

After generation, you get a SKILL.md that contains the core framework and chapter index of the entire book. Each chapter is extracted into its own file, along with glossaries, pattern tables, and quick reference tables.

The benefit: you no longer cram the whole book into every context. Instead, it only reads the relevant part when you ask about something.

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