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
Markitdown is the strongest overall pick here because it has a 100/100 readiness score and fits Document processing.
Strongest overall
Markitdown
Use this as a leading candidate, then validate the README and install path in your own agent stack.
Fastest prototype
Markitdown
Best first install candidate based on install readiness and adoption.
Freshest repo
Pypdf
Most recent maintenance signal among this shortlist.
| Signal | Pdf Inspector Fast Rust library for PDF inspection, classification, and text extraction. Intelligently detects scanned vs text-based PDFs to enable smart routing decisions. | Markitdown Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown. | Pypdf A pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming the pages of PDF files | Dolphin The official repo for “Dolphin: Document Image Parsing via Heterogeneous Anchor Prompting”, ACL, 2025. |
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| Quality | 98/100 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 | 1.5K stars 0 installs | 152K stars 0 installs | 10K stars 0 installs | 9.0K stars 0 installs |
| Freshness | Jun 5, 2026 | May 26, 2026 | Jun 11, 2026 | Mar 25, 2026 |
| Use-case fit | ||||
| Stack fit | ||||
| Platform hints | Rust, PDF, Claude Code | Python, PDF, Claude Code, OpenAI Agents, LangChain | Python, PDF, Claude Code | Python, PDF, Claude Code |
| Warnings | No major risk signals from current metadata | 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 | 3 views 0 install copies | 0 views 0 install copies | 0 views 0 install copies | 0 views 0 install copies |
| Install | $ npx skills add firecrawl/pdf-inspector | $ npx skills add microsoft/markitdown | $ npx skills add py-pdf/pypdf | $ npx skills add bytedance/Dolphin |