Illustrative cover generated by us — see the source repo for real examples.
How to use
- 1
Copy the install prompt
Sign in, then click the black button. One click, done.
- 2
Paste it to your agent
Send it in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or similar. It installs itself.
- 3
Ask in one sentence
Say what you want, like below, and the agent follows this skill.
/book-to-skill make me: Applying a technical book while you workExample message showing how to invoke it, not a real output.
What you get
- Frameworks and decision rules, not a summary
- Per-chapter reference files
- A skill you can call by the book's name
Good fit
- Applying a technical book while you work
Not for
- Books you do not have the right to use
What you need
- Calibre for MOBI/AZW
- License
- MIT
- Author
- @virgiliojr94
- Source
- virgiliojr94/book-to-skill · ★ 33,940
Upstream description
Converts books and documents (PDF, EPUB, DOCX, HTML, Markdown, plain text, RTF, MOBI/AZW with Calibre) into structured agent skills, extracting frameworks, mental models, principles, techniques, and anti-patterns. Use when the user wants to study a document through GitHub Copilot CLI, Amp, Claude Code, Hermes Agent, OpenCode, or OpenClaw, apply an author's frameworks while working, or build a…
Other ways to install
Prefer doing it yourself? These commands do the same as the button.
Read https://skilloop.dev/skills/book-to-skill/install.md and follow the instructions to install the skill.
npx skills add https://github.com/virgiliojr94/book-to-skill -g -a claude-code
npx skills add https://github.com/virgiliojr94/book-to-skill -g -a codex
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/virgiliojr94/book-to-skill.git /tmp/book-to-skill mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r /tmp/book-to-skill ~/.claude/skills/book-to-skill
Original work by its authors, redistributed under its license. We only link and describe it.
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