read-routerlisted

Pick the right web-data READ paradigm per URL or file before fetching — never default to one tool for everything. Triggers on: 'scrape this', 'read this page/PDF', 'extract from <url>', 'get the data from', 'pull this document', 'what does this site say', or any time content must be pulled from a web URL or a document file. Routes to web-scrape (HTML→markdown, local), doc-extract (PDF/Office→markdown, local GPU), pixel-read (visual/layout→images), or search (`research --web` / exa) when the URL is unknown. Local-first and data-sovereign by default.
juliuswiener/nord-kit · ★ 0 · Data & Documents · score 65

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# read-router — choose the read paradigm per input "Get web data" is not one task. Picking the wrong reader is the most common and most expensive mistake: a screenshot in context costs many times the tokens of clean markdown, and an HTML parser can throw away 40%+ of the recoverable text. Decide per input, then call exactly one reader. Do not pipe everything through the same tool. This skill is a **router**: it classifies the input and hands off. It does not fetch itself. --- ## Decision tree (classify, then hand off) ``` INPUT │ ├─ No URL yet — need to FIND sources? │ → search first: `research --web` or exa (mcp). Then re-enter with the URLs. │ ├─ Document file (PDF / Office / scanned)? │ ├─ mostly text + tables → doc-extract (MinerU → markdown, CHEAP) │ └─ layout carries meaning → pixel-read (charts/forms/scans, images, costly) │ ├─ Web page (URL)? │ ├─ normal page → web-scrape (Crawl4AI local, free) │ ├─ anti-bot / login / heavy JS → web-scrape --stealth (on-device stealth) │ └─ layout/chart IS the content → pixel-read (render to image) │ └─ Social platform (X / Reddit / YT / GitHub thread)? → native tools / WebFetch. (No bulk social-scraper wired; ToS-gray, out of scope.) ``` ## Cost order — prefer the cheapest reader that captures the information 1. **Text markdown** (web-scrape, doc-extract) — cheapest. Default for prose, articles, docs, tables. 2.