Use Case
PDF Tools isn't just for solo use β teams can share skills and build consistent AI workflows across the organization. View, extract, edit, and manipulate PDF files. Supports text extraction, text editing (overlay and replacement), merging, splitting, rotating pages, and getting PDF metadata. Use when working with PDF documents for reading content, adding/editing text, reorganizing pages, combining files, or extracting information. This guide covers how to deploy PDF Tools for your team, standardize prompts, and create shared workflows that everyone can use.
Install PDF Tools in your project directory: .claude/skills/pdf-tools/
Commit the skill folder to your repository so the whole team has access
Document your team's standard prompts in a shared README
Use PDF Tools in code reviews, standups, and planning sessions
Iterate: collect feedback from the team and refine your prompts
Copy these prompts and use them with your AI agent after installing PDF Tools
How can my team use PDF Tools together?
Set up PDF Tools for our project so everyone can use it
Create a shared workflow using PDF Tools for our team
Select your agent
Option 1: Install via CLI (recommended)
Recommended (no pre-install needed)
npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install pdf-toolsOr via clawhub CLI (if already installed)
clawhub --dir ~/.claude/skills install pdf-toolsβ 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/pdf-tools/π‘Extract and place the folder at the path above, then restart your agent.