pdf

An agent skill by anthropics, from anthropics/skills. Tags: anthropic, debugging, documents, office.

What it does

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.

Install

With the skills CLI, which installs into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents:

npx skills add anthropics/skills --skill pdf

Or copy the skill folder into Claude Code's skills directory by hand (~/.claude/skills for every project, or .claude/skills inside one):

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/skills
cp -r skills/skills/pdf ~/.claude/skills/pdf

Safety box score

Grade B, low risk: 18 of 100 risk points, rated 2026-09-20. The grade rates what the skill and its scripts can reach on the machine of whoever installs it, across eight categories from shell execution to secrets access. How the score works.

Source

Repository

anthropics/skills (all skills from this repository)

Path

skills/pdf/SKILL.md

Branch

main

Updated

2026-09-19

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