Use Case
Stop doing repetitive documents & notes tasks manually. File Reader lets your AI agent handle them automatically through natural conversation. File reading skills. Activate when the user needs to read file content, view files, and cat files. Supports reading text files, configuration files, code files, etc. This guide shows practical examples of using File Reader to automate common documents & notes workflows and save hours every week.
Install File Reader: npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install file-reader
Identify the repetitive documents & notes tasks you want to automate
Describe the task to your AI in plain English
File Reader will execute the task and return results directly in the chat
Chain multiple tasks: ask your AI to run a sequence of operations
Copy these prompts and use them with your AI agent after installing File Reader
Automate my documents & notes tasks using File Reader
What repetitive tasks can File Reader handle for me?
Set up a workflow that runs File Reader every morning
Select your agent
Option 1: Install via CLI (recommended)
Recommended (no pre-install needed)
npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install file-readerOr via clawhub CLI (if already installed)
clawhub --dir ~/.claude/skills install file-readerβ οΈ Requires Node.js 18+. No Node? Use Option 2 below to download the ZIP instead. Install Node.js β
Option 2: Manual install (no Node required)
Download the ZIP, extract it, and place the folder at the path below. Restart your agent to activate.
Install path
~/.claude/skills/file-reader/π‘Extract and place the folder at the path above, then restart your agent.