book-to-skill

by alirezarezvani (GitHub) in alirezarezvani/claude-skills

What it does

Converts books, documentation folders, and source collections (PDF, EPUB, DOCX, HTML, Markdown, RST, AsciiDoc, RTF, MOBI/AZW) into structured agent skills - extracting named frameworks, principles, techniques, and anti-patterns into a master SKILL.md plus on-demand chapter files, a glossary, a pat

Quoted from the skill's SKILL.md under its MIT license.

Install

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills.git /tmp/claude-skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/
cp -r /tmp/claude-skills/engineering/book-to-skill/skills/book-to-skill ~/.claude/skills/book-to-skill

The command copies the skill from the author's repo. SkillTrove does not host it.

Files

• SKILL.md
• assets/chapter_template.md
• assets/cheatsheet_template.md
• assets/master_skill_template.md
• references/conversion_workflow.md
• references/document_extraction_pipeline.md
• references/knowledge_extraction_canon.md
• references/progressive_disclosure_budgets.md
• references/rights_and_provenance.md
• scripts/book_skill_validator.py
• scripts/book_to_skill/__init__.py
• scripts/book_to_skill/config.py
• scripts/book_to_skill/dependencies.py
• scripts/book_to_skill/exceptions.py
• scripts/book_to_skill/parsers/__init__.py
• scripts/book_to_skill/parsers/calibre.py
• scripts/book_to_skill/parsers/docx.py
• scripts/book_to_skill/parsers/epub.py
• scripts/book_to_skill/parsers/html_text.py
• scripts/book_to_skill/parsers/pdf.py
• scripts/book_to_skill/parsers/rtf.py
• scripts/book_to_skill/parsers/text.py
• scripts/book_to_skill/sanitize.py
• scripts/book_to_skill/utils.py
• scripts/book_to_skill/zip_safety.py
• scripts/extract_document.py
• scripts/skill_plugin_emitter.py
• scripts/token_budget_estimator.py

Source: https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills/tree/main/engineering/book-to-skill/skills/book-to-skill. Checked 2026-10-13.

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