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.
Note Not publisher verified. The validation score measures ARD metadata quality, not safety or trust.
Validation report
Validation score measures ARD metadata completeness, not safety, trust, or publisher verification. Score: 60/100.
- warning
representative-queriesMissing representative queries.
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capabilitiesMissing capability labels.
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tagsMissing tags.
- info
trust-manifestTrustManifest not supplied; this is informational and not a safety score.
CatalogEntry JSONstandard ARD fields only
{
"identifier": "urn:air:github.com:anthropics:skills:skill:pdf",
"displayName": "pdf",
"type": "application/ai-skill",
"url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anthropics/skills/57546260929473d4e0d1c1bb75297be2fdfa1949/skills/pdf/SKILL.md",
"description": "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.",
"updatedAt": "2026-06-24T08:07:15.035Z"
}