Skill comparison
Compare agent skills before installing.
Put high-signal skills side by side and inspect quality, adoption, freshness, install readiness, use-case fit, and warnings in one place.
Comparing 4 skills
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Decision summary
Stirling PDF is the strongest overall pick here because it has a 100/100 readiness score and fits Document processing.
Strongest overall
Stirling PDF
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Fastest prototype
Stirling PDF
Best first install candidate based on install readiness and adoption.
Freshest repo
Stirling PDF
Most recent maintenance signal among this shortlist.
| Signal | Borb borb is a library for reading, creating and manipulating PDF files in python. | Stirling PDF #1 PDF Application on GitHub that lets you edit PDFs on any device anywhere | Tesseract Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository) | MinerU Transforms complex documents like PDFs and Office docs into LLM-ready markdown/JSON for your Agentic workflows. |
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| Quality | 100/100 Excellent | 100/100 Excellent | 100/100 Excellent | 100/100 Excellent |
| Decision verdict | 100/100 Production-ready Use this as a leading candidate, then validate the README and install path in your own agent stack. | 100/100 Production-ready Use this as a leading candidate, then validate the README and install path in your own agent stack. | 100/100 Production-ready Use this as a leading candidate, then validate the README and install path in your own agent stack. | 100/100 Production-ready Use this as a leading candidate, then validate the README and install path in your own agent stack. |
| Adoption | 3.6K stars 0 installs | 80K stars 0 installs | 75K stars 0 installs | 67K stars 0 installs |
| Freshness | May 17, 2026 | Jun 6, 2026 | Jun 4, 2026 | Jun 6, 2026 |
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| Stack fit | ||||
| Platform hints | Python, PDF, Claude Code | TypeScript, PDF, Claude Code | C++, OCR, Claude Code | Python, PDF, Claude Code |
| Warnings | No OpenAgentSkill engagement data yet | No OpenAgentSkill engagement data yet | No OpenAgentSkill engagement data yet | No OpenAgentSkill engagement data yet |
| Best for | Document processing workflows · Claude Code teams · teams that value GitHub adoption signals | Document processing workflows · Claude Code teams · teams that value GitHub adoption signals | Document processing workflows · Claude Code teams · teams that value GitHub adoption signals | Document processing workflows · Claude Code teams · teams that value GitHub adoption signals |
| Not ideal for | teams that need a vendor-supported SLA · high-compliance environments without internal security review | teams that need a vendor-supported SLA · high-compliance environments without internal security review | teams that need a vendor-supported SLA · high-compliance environments without internal security review | teams that need a vendor-supported SLA · high-compliance environments without internal security review |
| OpenAgentSkill engagement | 0 views 0 install copies | 0 views 0 install copies | 0 views 0 install copies | 0 views 0 install copies |
| Install | $ npx skills add borb-pdf/borb | $ npx skills add Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF | $ npx skills add tesseract-ocr/tesseract | $ npx skills add opendatalab/MinerU |