virgiliojr94/book-to-skill

A skill (and companion CLI) that converts a book or long document into a reusable agent skill, distilling its methods into something Claude can apply.

8.7k stars 1.1k forksLicense: MITUpdated 2026-07-16
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Why it matters

A book’s value is locked in prose until you can act on it. Book-to-skill runs a convert-a-book flow to distill a text’s frameworks and steps into a structured skill, turning passive reading into an on-demand capability. For anyone who learns from books and wants that knowledge available at the command line, it closes a real gap.

Use cases

  • Turn a methodology book into an installable agent skill
  • Extract frameworks and checklists from long documents
  • Build reusable skills from your own reading list
  • Use the standalone CLI to pull clean text from a book

Quickstart

git clone https://github.com/virgiliojr94/book-to-skill.git ~/.claude/skills/book-to-skill

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