Agent skill · Productivity · tronghieu

deep-reader agent skill by tronghieu

Reads and answers questions about long books and papers without loading the whole text into one context window, keeping page-anchored notes.

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At a glance

Publisher	tronghieu
Repository	tronghieu/agent-skills (19 listed skills)
Category	Productivity and Knowledge Work
License	MIT
Last commit	October 18, 2026 (repository)
SKILL.md	278 lines, 2,032 words
Bundled files	15 files, including references, scripts
Quality score	90/100 · A Passes all seven graded checks
Security scan	Not scanned
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Before you install

Read from the skill's files at the directory's October 19, 2026 snapshot: what ships with it, what its code reads, and the terms it is published under.

Bundled scripts: 8 script files (8 Shell). Your agent may run them, so read them first.
License: MIT, an open-source or open-content license.

Install deep-reader

The skills CLI works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents; the other routes copy the folder by hand.

Skills CLI

npx skills add https://github.com/tronghieu/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/deep-reader

Claude Code, project-level copy

tmp="$(mktemp -d)"
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tronghieu/agent-skills.git "$tmp/repo"
mkdir -p .claude/skills
cp -R "$tmp/repo/"skills/deep-reader .claude/skills/
rm -rf "$tmp"

Codex installer

python3 ~/.codex/skills/.system/skill-installer/scripts/install-skill-from-github.py \
    --repo tronghieu/agent-skills \
    --path skills/deep-reader

tronghieu/agent-skills is third-party code. Read SKILL.md and any bundled scripts before you install it.

How the author describes it

Read, study, and answer questions about long books and papers without loading the whole text into one context window, keeping page-anchored notes as a reusable workspace. Use whenever the user asks to read, study, summarize, analyze, review, or answer questions about a long book, textbook, PDF, EPUB, thesis, dissertation, survey paper, or any document of roughly 50+ pages, in any language (Vietnamese "đọc sách", "tóm tắt sách", "phân tích luận án"). Also use when a `{slug}-notes/` workspace from a previous session sits next to a source file and the user asks a follow-up question about that book. Not for short documents (under ~30 pages) that fit in context; read those directly.

From the description field of SKILL.md. Agents read this line to decide when to load the skill.

Sections in SKILL.md

Why multi-pass, why notes
Two modes
Workspace layout
Scripts at a glance
Step 0 — Prepare
Step 1 — Reading purpose
Step 2 — Inspectional pass (both modes)
Step 3 — Analytical pass (study mode)
Step 4 — Synthesis
Step 5 — Verify
Answering from existing notes
Critical judgment
Syntopical reading
Communication

Files in the skill folder

README.md
README.vi.md
README.zh.md
SKILL.md
references/genre-strategies.md
references/note-templates.md
references/paper-mode.md
scripts/build-diagram.sh
scripts/extract-structure.sh
scripts/prepare-text.sh
scripts/read-pages.sh
scripts/search-book.sh
scripts/self-test.sh
scripts/split-chapters.sh
scripts/verify-quotes.sh

Suede Skill Check: 90/100 · A

Report snapshot · October 19, 2026 · graded-v2

The rubric totals 100 points; published scores are capped at 99. Security scan: not scanned.

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Description length: 3 of 5 points. 5 for 150–600 characters; 3 for 100–900; 1 for 50–1,024.
Tool permissions declared: 0 of 2 points. 2 when the frontmatter declares allowed-tools.
Compatibility declared: 0 of 2 points. 2 when the frontmatter declares compatibility.

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deep-reader passes the required frontmatter check and all seven graded checks, which cover the SKILL.md format, a declared license and a commit in the last year. Those checks earn 56 of the score’s points; the rest come from description quality, instruction depth, bundled files, maintenance and curated-list citations. How the score works.

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Check	Result
Frontmatter parses and declares a name and a description	Pass
Name uses lowercase letters, digits and hyphens, 64 characters or fewer	Pass
Name matches the skill's folder name	Pass
Description is between 50 and 1,024 characters	Pass
Description says when an agent should use the skill	Pass
SKILL.md body is 500 lines or fewer	Pass
A license is declared in the frontmatter or the repository	Pass
Repository has a commit in the last 12 months	Pass

Score component	Points
Structural checks	56 of 56
Description length	3 of 5
Boundary clause	4 of 4
Example request	3 of 3
Instruction depth	7 of 7
Reference files	3 of 3
Bundled scripts	2 of 2
Recent maintenance	9 of 9
Curated-list citations	3 of 7
Tool permissions declared	0 of 2
Compatibility declared	0 of 2

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