Extract text from PDFs using shell tools when read_file fails
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The skill exposes the agent to untrusted, user-generated content from public third-party sources, creating a risk of indirect prompt injection. This includes browsing arbitrary URLs, reading social media posts or forum comments, and analyzing content from unknown websites.
This skill’s required workflow runs local PDF parsing tools (e.g., `pdftotext` / Python `fitz` / `pdfplumber`) on a user-supplied `/path/to/file.pdf`, so the agent may ingest outsider-authored PDF body text into the LLM context when the operating user provides a non-authored/forwarded/downloaded PDF.
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