PDF Explore

SkillDocs & knowledge

Lets your agent read scientific PDFs and pull out methods, figures, tables, and citations with page references.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the PDF Explore skill

About this capability

Read, extract, and cross-check content across scientific PDFs. Use when a task needs methods, figures, tables, citations, accessions, or claims from multiple places in one or more papers.

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by companion-inc/feynman in skills/pdf-explore/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Use this skill when a PDF answer depends on more than one page or section.

Workflow:

  1. Parse or inspect the full PDF enough to map title, abstract, methods, figures, tables, supplement references, and citations.
  2. Extract the exact pages and regions that support the answer. Use Feynman's PDF preview annotations for page/line/rectangle anchors when available.
  3. Keep table values, figure labels, accession IDs, and quoted snippets tied to page numbers.
  4. Cross-check claims against methods, captions, supplement text, and cited papers when the conclusion depends on them.
  5. Save extracted notes, annotations, and provenance as artifacts.

Do not answer from a single visible page when the question spans methods, figures, or supplements.

Signals

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Catalog kind
skill
Gateway key
pdf-explore
Source
github.com/companion-inc/feynman