Scan reports · anthropics/skills
pdf: scan report
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… An automated scan of this public skill from anthropics/skills: security, token cost, spec and clarity, with every finding and its fix.
Verdict
anthropics/skills/skills/pdf at dbd4588
Spec 25 · Efficiency 21 · Clarity 25 · Security 25 (each out of 25)
Always loaded 111 tokens · on trigger 1,879 · on demand 12,658
eff/orphan-fileinfo · forms.mdforms.md is never mentioned in SKILL.md, so the agent won't know to read it.eff/orphan-fileinfo · reference.mdreference.md is never mentioned in SKILL.md, so the agent won't know to read it.
Source
| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | anthropics/skills |
| Skill folder | skills/pdf |
| Stars | 181,568 |
| License | None stated |
| Commit scanned | dbd4588 |
| Scanned | 2026-10-16 |
| Files | 12 |
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Questions
- Is pdf safe to install?
- No known risky patterns found. The scan covers prompt injection, hidden Unicode, remote code execution and credential access in every text file of the skill. It cannot judge intent, so read any flagged line in context before installing.
- How was this score calculated?
- Four checks of 25 points each: spec, efficiency, clarity and security. Findings take points off the check they belong to, and any critical finding caps the grade at F. The same scanner runs in your browser at proskills.dev/scan.
- Is this report current?
- It was made from commit dbd4588 on 2026-10-16. If the skill has changed since, paste the new version into the scanner for a fresh score.
- I wrote this skill. Can I fix the score or have the page removed?
- Fix the findings and push. The reports are rebuilt from GitHub on a schedule, so the next run picks the change up. To have the page removed, open an issue on the ProSkills GitHub repo.
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