Rules for agents

• Convert each PDF once and save the result. Search the saved file instead of converting it again.
• For a known term, start with a bounded search such as grep -n -i -C2 "term" file | head.
• Use the query skill when you do not know the exact wording or a plain search returns too many matches.
• Use pdf-to-text when whitespace and column alignment matter more than Markdown structure.
• Do not render PDF pages as images to extract selectable text. Use Vision for scans and image-only PDFs.

PDF to Markdown

Convert PDFs to Markdown while preserving headings, tables, lists, and reading order.

Related skills

• pdf-to-text — preserves whitespace and column alignment in plain text.
• query — searches a large converted file and returns only the most relevant passages.

Usage