What it claims to do
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 …
What we found · 5
- Description doesn’t say WHEN to use itmediumA good description names the trigger (e.g. "when reviewing a PR"). Without it the skill mis-fires or never fires.
- Trigger is too broadmediumWords like "whenever", "anything" make it fire everywhere and fight other skills for the same task — the #1 cause of conflicts.
- Bloated: high token costmedium~2,009 tokens on every single call. Compress instructions and trim examples.
- Embedded shell script blockmediumShips runnable command-line scripts. Not necessarily bad, but must be sandboxed and reviewed.
- Repeated contentlow~15 duplicate lines detected; de-duping is free token savings.
What its scripts can do
| medium | Installs packages |
Conflicts with · 8
| docx | shadow | want, read, fil |
| pptx | shadow | read, extract, text |
| xlsx | shadow | want, read, add |
| claude-api | shadow | read, one |
| frontend-design | shadow | one, read |
| canvas-design | shadow | |
| doc-coauthoring | shadow | want |
| theme-factory | shadow | pag |
If you have both installed, they compete for the same triggers — the top cause of an agent picking the wrong skill.
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