Use this skill whenever the user wants to do anything with PDF files. This includes reading or extracting text/tables from PDFs, combining or merging multiple PDFs into one, splitting PDFs apart, rotating pages, adding watermarks, creating new PDFs, filling PDF forms, encrypting/decrypting PDFs, extracting images, and OCR on scanned PDFs to make them searchable. If the user mentions a .pdf file or asks to produce one, use this skill.
30-Second Summary
Pdf is an agent-readable workflow from anthropics/skills for pdf.
It gives the agent a trigger, ordered guidance, and source-backed checks instead of treating pdf as a generic tool.
Use it as a brief only while the linked SKILL.md remains available and the risk boundary is still accurate.
1-Minute Read
What it is
Pdf packages instructions from anthropics/skills into a reusable agent skill brief. The original source is a public SKILL.md file, so the brief can point readers back to the executable workflow instead of a product landing page.
When to use it
Use it when a user asks for help around pdf and the agent needs a repeatable workflow, checklist, or review path rather than broad background information.
How to test it first
Open the linked SKILL.md, confirm the trigger and procedure still match pdf, list the risk boundary, then ask the agent to apply the smallest read-only step to a sample task.
Watch out
Do not present this as a generic app or platform. Keep the scope tied to anthropics/skills. Risk boundary: git state, commit, branch, PR, or push actions require explicit repo-owner approval before mutation; Anthropic skill package; keep the scope tied to the referenced SKILL.md and bundled resources.