Book to Skill
Convert a book or document into a skill that teaches and applies its ideas.
Community, verifiedby Virgilio JuniorChecked October 18, 2026
A very popular community skill that reads a book or long document and turns it into a structured agent skill. The new skill captures the author's frameworks, principles and anti-patterns so you can study them or apply them while you work.
Who it is for
- Lifelong learners
- Students
- Professionals
- Teams building knowledge bases
Prompts to try
Once the skill is installed, ask for the result in plain words. Claude picks the skill up on its own.
/book-to-skill ~/Books/negotiation-handbook.pdfTurn this management book into a skill I can use in planning sessionsAnalyze this textbook first and show me what the skill would containHow to install it
In Claude Code
npx skills add virgiliojr94/book-to-skill
In Claude.ai
Not practical in Claude.ai because the skill drives local command-line tools, so use Claude Code.
Good to know
Use it with documents you have the right to use; scanned PDFs need OCR first.
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How we checked it
Confirmed SKILL.md at the repo root in virgiliojr94/book-to-skill via the GitHub API; skill folder last changed 2026-09-29, repo has 35,147 stars and was pushed 2026-10-12.