book-to-skill

# Book-to-Skill Converter 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 | < 4,000 tokens (resident) | | `chapters/chNN-*.md` | One summary per chapter | 800–3,000 tokens, on demand | | `glossary.md` | Every significant term, alphabetized, with chapter | < 1,500 tokens | | `patterns.md` | Techniques and design patterns with trade-offs | < 2,000 tokens | | `cheatsheet.md` | Decision rules, thresholds, trade-off matrices | < 1,200 tokens | **Beyond books:** anything referenced often enough to be worth memorizing — internal documentation, brand systems, standards, specs, research clusters, a folder of RFCs. --- ## Philosophy **Extract structure, not summaries.** A skill is not a book report. It is a toolkit of named frameworks, actionable principles, step-by-step techniques, anti-patterns, and the author's voice. **Preserve the author's precision.** Framework names are ...