book-to-skill

Topics in the source

• Book-to-Skill Converter
• Philosophy
• Modes
• Hard rules
• Pipeline
• Run it
• Validator findings worth knowing
• Forcing-question library

Turn written knowledge into an agent skill by extracting structure, not summaries. A book is crystallized expertise: frameworks, principles, techniques that took years to develop. Read once, forgotten. The workarounds all fail — PDF search returns page numbers instead of answers, an agent handed the raw file hallucinates or drowns, reading notes rot. This skill compiles a source into a knowledge base the agent loads on demand: a small resident core, one chapter file at a time, and never the whole book again. What it produces: | File | Contents | Budget | |------|----------|--------| | SKILL.md | Core frameworks + chapter index + topic index | and $SLUG filled in) and it works end to end. Without --workdir the extractor creates a private temp directory and prints it — capture that instead. extractdocument.py --check reports which extractors are installed and prints the install command for what is missing. Every tool supports --help, --sample and --output json. The full step-by-step procedure — what to ask at each step, the file templates, the per-chapter budget matrix, and the update/fold-in workflow — is in references/conversionworkflow.md. Read it before running a conversion. Summ

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