How to use Book to Skill in your AI agent

What you'll get

This skill reads a book or a folder of documents and extracts its frameworks, principles, techniques, and pitfalls into a structured skill your AI assistant can use again and again. Instead of a book summary, you get chapter notes, a glossary, a patterns file, and a cheat sheet the assistant draws on when you ask for help. It suits anyone who wants to work with a favorite business or productivity book's ideas close at hand.

Step 1 — Get the skill source URL

The Book to Skill skill lives at:

Step 2 — Add it to your AI agent

Copy one of these prompts and paste it into your AI tool. The agent will fetch and install the skill for you.

Add the agent skill from https://github.com/virgiliojr94/book-to-skill to my project.

Install this agent skill: https://github.com/virgiliojr94/book-to-skill

Add this skill to .codex/skills/: https://github.com/virgiliojr94/book-to-skill

Add the skill at https://github.com/virgiliojr94/book-to-skill to my .gemini/skills/ directory.

Install this agent skill from https://github.com/virgiliojr94/book-to-skill

Add this skill: https://github.com/virgiliojr94/book-to-skill

Step 3 — Try these prompts

Once the skill is installed, ask your AI things like:

• You want your AI assistant to apply a book's frameworks while you work
• Building a reusable knowledge base from a stack of documents or reports
• You need quick lookups of key concepts from a long book without rereading it

What this skill does

• Reads PDF, EPUB, Word, HTML, Markdown, plain text, and other document formats
• Extracts named frameworks, mental models, principles, and anti-patterns in the author's own terms
• Creates chapter-by-chapter notes plus a glossary, patterns guide, and cheat sheet
• Offers an analyze-only mode so you can review findings before anything is generated
• Updates an existing book skill when you add new chapters or sources