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 watermarks, creating new PDFs, filling PDF forms, encrypting/decrypting PDFs, extracting images, and OCR on scanned PDFs to make them searchable. If the user mentions a .pdf file or asks to produce one, use this skill.
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78%
Does it follow best practices?
Impact
95%
1.31xAverage score across 8 eval scenarios
High
Do not use without reviewing
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tessl review fix ./resources/example-skills/pdf/SKILL.mdThe canonical home for this skill is pdf in anthropics/skills
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 includes literal passwords placed directly in command-line arguments and in code (e.g., qpdf --password=mypassword and writer.encrypt("userpassword", "ownerpassword")), which requires embedding secret values verbatim and exposes them in outputs — a high exfiltration risk.
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