Anthropic · Agent Skill

pdf

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,…

Published by AnthropicSee LICENSE.txt314 lines in SKILL.md

Source: anthropics/skills/skills/pdf
Repository owner: anthropics

Install

Read the SKILL.md and any scripts before installing: a skill runs with your agent's permissions. This copies just this skill into Claude Code's user skills folder; other agents read skills from their own folder.

Claude Code (user-level)

git clone --depth 1 --filter=blob:none --sparse https://github.com/anthropics/skills.git /tmp/skills
cd /tmp/skills && git sparse-checkout set "skills/pdf"
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "skills/pdf" ~/.claude/skills/pdf

Skills folder docs:

Claude Code Codex Gemini CLI OpenCode Cursor GitHub Copilot goose OpenHands Amp Factory Droid Junie Kiro Roo Code Mistral Vibe pi Hermes Agent OpenClaw Letta

Works with

Agent Skills is an open format, so this skill loads in any harness that supports it, including Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, goose, OpenHands. Some skills are written for one product and say so in their description.

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Reviewed Oct 5, 2026. Name and description are the skill's own frontmatter.