local-paper-index
Installation
SKILL.md
Local PDF Index Builder
Build a searchable Asta document index from a collection of local PDF files. Each PDF is converted to markdown, split into ~2000-character chunks, and written as documents to an asta-documents YAML index — enabling semantic search across the full text of the collection.
Assets
This skill includes standalone scripts in the assets/ directory:
| Script | Purpose |
|---|---|
assets/extract-pdfs.sh |
Convert PDFs to markdown via asta pdf-extraction remote |
assets/chunk-and-index.py |
Chunk markdown files and write the YAML index directly |
assets/warm-cache.sh |
Run an initial search to build the search cache |
Locate the assets directory relative to this skill file. The scripts are self-contained and can be copied to the working directory or run in place.