Read and analyze PDF files for ARIS research workflows. Use when the user wants to summarize, inspect, extract text or tables from, compare, or sanity-check a .pdf file, especially a paper, appendix, supplement, review form, scanned document, or exported report. Prefer Anthropic's official `pdf` skill when installed.
Analyze: $ARGUMENTS
Primary upstream skill: Anthropic official pdf
Use the upstream pdf skill as the implementation baseline when available. This ARIS wrapper narrows the output toward research use:
MODE = summaryOCR = autoTABLES = autoSAVE = falseIdentify whether the file is mainly:
If Anthropic's official pdf skill is available, follow its guidance first for:
If upstream skill support is unavailable, use local fallbacks such as pdftotext, pypdf, or pdfplumber.
Focus on:
Always include:
If the user asks to save notes, write:
document-reading/<basename>/SUMMARY.md