Use this skill whenever a PDF file is being produced, opened, transformed, filled, or read. That includes: extracting text or tables from an existing PDF; combining, carving, rotating, cropping, or watermarking pages; composing a fresh PDF (report, invoice, certificate); filling AcroForm fields or overlaying text onto a non-fillable scanned form; encrypting or unlocking a PDF; running OCR over a scanned document; rendering pages to PNG/JPEG for visual analysis. Trigger on mentions of 'PDF', a filename ending in .pdf, requests like 'turn this into a PDF report', or references to AcroForm / form fields.
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Security
1 high severity finding. You should review these findings carefully before considering using this skill.
The skill handles credentials insecurely by requiring the agent to include secret values verbatim in its generated output. This exposes credentials in the agent’s context and conversation history, creating a risk of data exfiltration.
The guide tells the user to unlock PDFs with a qpdf command that includes --password=…, which instructs embedding a secret on the command line and would require the agent to handle or output the password verbatim.
Low
Low-risk findings.
1 low severity finding. Worth noting, but not necessarily harmful.
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.
pdf-official reads outsider-authored free text embedded in user-provided PDFs by extracting page text/tables/metadata (e.g., scripts/text_dump.py and scripts/probe_fields.py), meaning a malicious PDF can supply poison text that the runtime ingests.
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