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🧠 The data layer for AI systems. Skill Seekers turns documentation sites, GitHub repos, PDFs, videos, notebooks, wikis, and 10+ more source types into structured knowledge assets—ready to power AI Skills (Claude, Gemini, OpenAI), RAG pipelines (LangChain, LlamaIndex, Pinecone), and AI coding assistants (Cursor, Windsurf, Cline) in minutes, not hours.

🌐 Visit SkillSeekersWeb.com - Browse 24+ preset configs, share your configs, and access complete documentation!

📋 View Development Roadmap & Tasks - 134 tasks across 10 categories, pick any to contribute!

🌐 Ecosystem

Skill Seekers is a multi-repo project. Here's where everything lives:

Want to contribute? The website and configs repos are great starting points for new contributors!

🧠 The Data Layer for AI Systems

Skill Seekers is the universal preprocessing layer that sits between raw documentation and every AI system that consumes it. Whether you are building Claude skills, a LangChain RAG pipeline, or a Cursor .cursorrules file — the data preparation is identical. You do it once, and export to all targets.

# One command → structured knowledge asset
skill-seekers create https://docs.react.dev/
# or: skill-seekers create facebook/react
# or: skill-seekers create ./my-project

# Export to any AI system
skill-seekers package output/react --target claude      # → Claude AI Skill (ZIP)
skill-seekers package output/react --target langchain   # → LangChain Documents
skill-seekers package output/react --target llama-index # → LlamaIndex TextNodes
skill-seekers package output/react --target cursor      # → .cursorrules
skill-seekers package output/react --target ibm-bob     # → IBM Bob skill directory

What gets built

Why it matters

• ⚡ 99% faster — Days of manual data prep → 15–45 minutes
• 🎯 AI Skill quality — 500+ line SKILL.md files with examples, patterns, and guides
• 📊 RAG-ready chunks — Smart chunking preserves code blocks and maintains context
• 🎬 Videos — Extract code, transcripts, and structured knowledge from YouTube and local videos
• 🔄 Multi-source — Combine 18 source types (docs, GitHub, PDFs, videos, notebooks, wikis, and more) into one knowledge asset
• 🌐 One prep, every target — Export the same asset to 21 platforms without re-scraping
• ✅ Battle-tested — 3,445+ tests, 24+ framework presets, production-ready

🚀 Quick Start (3 Commands)

# 1. Install
pip install skill-seekers

# 2. Create skill from any source
skill-seekers create https://docs.django.com/

# 3. Package for your AI platform
skill-seekers package output/django --target claude

That's it! You now have output/django-claude.zip ready to use.

# Use a different AI agent for enhancement (default: claude)
skill-seekers create https://docs.django.com/ --agent kimi
skill-seekers create https://docs.django.com/ --agent codex
skill-seekers create https://docs.django.com/ --agent-cmd "my-custom-agent run"

🛰️ AI-driven project scan (new)

Point scan at any project and an AI agent reads its manifests, README, Dockerfile/CI and sampled source imports — then emits one config per detected framework plus a <project>-codebase.json for your own code. Pins the detected version so re-running reports bumps:

skill-seekers scan ./my-react-app --out ./configs/scanned/
# → react.json, vite.json, tailwind.json, jest.json, my-react-app-codebase.json

# Then build any of them
skill-seekers create ./configs/scanned/react.json

If a detection has no existing preset, the AI generates a fresh config; on exit you can optionally publish it back to the community registry.

Other Sources (18 Supported)

# GitHub repository
skill-seekers create facebook/react

# Local project
skill-seekers create ./my-project

# PDF document
skill-seekers create manual.pdf

# Word document
skill-seekers create report.docx

# EPUB e-book
skill-seekers create book.epub

# Jupyter Notebook
skill-seekers create notebook.ipynb

# OpenAPI spec
skill-seekers create openapi.yaml

# PowerPoint presentation
skill-seekers create presentation.pptx

# AsciiDoc document
skill-seekers create guide.adoc

# Local HTML file (auto-detected by extension)
skill-seekers create page.html

# Whole directory of HTML files (auto-detected for HTML-dominant dirs)
skill-seekers create ./mirror_output/site/

# Force HTML mode on a mixed/code-heavy directory
skill-seekers create ./repo/ --html-path ./repo/docs/build/html/

# RSS/Atom feed
skill-seekers create feed.rss

# Man page
skill-seekers create curl.1

# Video (YouTube, Vimeo, or local file — requires skill-seekers[video])
skill-seekers create --video-url https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=... --name mytutorial
# First time? Auto-install GPU-aware visual deps:
skill-seekers create --setup

# Confluence wiki
skill-seekers create --space-key TEAM --name wiki

# Notion pages
skill-seekers create --database-id ... --name docs

# Slack/Discord chat export
skill-seekers create --chat-export-path ./slack-export --name team-chat

Export Everywhere

# Package for multiple platforms
for platform in claude gemini openai langchain; do
  skill-seekers package output/django --target $platform
done

What is Skill Seekers?

Skill Seekers is the data layer for AI systems. It transforms 18 source types—documentation websites, GitHub repositories, PDFs, videos, Jupyter Notebooks, Word/EPUB/AsciiDoc documents, OpenAPI specs, PowerPoint presentations, RSS feeds, man pages, Confluence wikis, Notion pages, Slack/Discord exports, and more—into structured knowledge assets for every AI target:

📚 Documentation

Complete documentation: docs/README.md

Instead of spending days on manual preprocessing, Skill Seekers:

1. Ingests — docs, GitHub repos, local codebases, PDFs, videos, notebooks, wikis, and 10+ more source types
2. Analyzes — deep AST parsing, pattern detection, API extraction
3. Structures — categorized reference files with metadata
4. Enhances — AI-powered SKILL.md generation (Claude, Gemini, or local)
5. Exports — 16 platform-specific formats from one asset

Why Use This?

For AI Skill Builders (Claude, Gemini, OpenAI)

• 🎯 Production-grade Skills — 500+ line SKILL.md files with code examples, patterns, and guides
• 🔄 Enhancement Workflows — Apply security-focus, architecture-comprehensive, or custom YAML presets
• 🎮 Any Domain — Game engines (Godot, Unity), frameworks (React, Django), internal tools
• 🔧 Teams — Combine internal docs + code into a single source of truth
• 📚 Quality — AI-enhanced with examples, quick reference, and navigation guidance

For RAG Builders & AI Engineers

• 🤖 RAG-ready data — Pre-chunked LangChain Documents, LlamaIndex TextNodes, Haystack Documents
• 🚀 99% faster — Days of preprocessing → 15–45 minutes
• 📊 Smart metadata — Categories, sources, types → better retrieval accuracy
• 🔄 Multi-source — Combine docs + GitHub + PDFs + videos in one pipeline
• 🌐 Platform-agnostic — Export to any vector DB or framework without re-scraping

For AI Coding Assistant Users

• 💻 Cursor / Windsurf / Cline — Generate .cursorrules / .windsurfrules / .clinerules automatically
• 🎯 Persistent context — AI "knows" your frameworks without repeated prompting
• 📚 Always current — Update context in minutes when docs change

Key Features

🌐 Documentation Scraping

• ✅ Smart SPA Discovery - Three-layer discovery for JavaScript SPA sites (sitemap.xml → llms.txt → headless browser rendering)
• ✅ llms.txt Support - Automatically detects and uses LLM-ready documentation files (10x faster)
• ✅ Universal Scraper - Works with ANY documentation website
• ✅ Smart Categorization - Automatically organizes content by topic
• ✅ Code Language Detection - Recognizes Python, JavaScript, C++, GDScript, etc.
• ✅ 24+ Ready-to-Use Presets - Godot, React, Vue, Django, FastAPI, and more

📄 PDF Support

• ✅ Basic PDF Extraction - Extract text, code, and images from PDF files
• ✅ OCR for Scanned PDFs - Extract text from scanned documents
• ✅ Password-Protected PDFs - Handle encrypted PDFs
• ✅ Table Extraction - Extract complex tables from PDFs
• ✅ Parallel Processing - 3x faster for large PDFs
• ✅ Intelligent Caching - 50% faster on re-runs

🎬 Video Extraction

• ✅ YouTube & Local Videos - Extract transcripts, on-screen code, and structured knowledge from videos
• ✅ Visual Frame Analysis - OCR extraction from code editors, terminals, slides, and diagrams
• ✅ GPU Auto-Detection - Automatically installs correct PyTorch build (CUDA/ROCm/MPS/CPU)
• ✅ AI Enhancement - Two-pass: clean OCR artifacts + generate polished SKILL.md
• ✅ Time Clipping - Extract specific sections with --start-time and --end-time
• ✅ Playlist Support - Batch process all videos in a YouTube playlist
• ✅ Vision API Fallback - Use Claude Vision for low-confidence OCR frames

🐙 GitHub Repository Analysis

• ✅ Deep Code Analysis - AST parsing for Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, C++, Go
• ✅ API Extraction - Functions, classes, methods with parameters and types
• ✅ Repository Metadata - README, file tree, language breakdown, stars/forks
• ✅ GitHub Issues & PRs - Fetch open/closed issues with labels and milestones
• ✅ CHANGELOG & Releases - Automatically extract version history
• ✅ Conflict Detection - Compare documented APIs vs actual code implementation
• ✅ MCP Integration - Natural language: "Scrape GitHub repo facebook/react"

🔄 Unified Multi-Source Scraping

• ✅ Combine Multiple Sources - Mix documentation + GitHub + PDF in one skill
• ✅ Conflict Detection - Automatically finds discrepancies between docs and code
• ✅ Intelligent Merging - Rule-based or AI-powered conflict resolution
• ✅ Transparent Reporting - Side-by-side comparison with ⚠️ warnings
• ✅ Documentation Gap Analysis - Identifies outdated docs and undocumented features
• ✅ Single Source of Truth - One skill showing both intent (docs) and reality (code)
• ✅ Backward Compatible - Legacy single-source configs still work

🤖 Multi-LLM Platform Support

• ✅ 21 LLM Platforms - Claude AI, Google Gemini, OpenAI ChatGPT, MiniMax AI, Generic Markdown, OpenCode, Kimi (Moonshot AI), DeepSeek AI, Qwen (Alibaba), OpenRouter, Together AI, Fireworks AI
• ✅ Universal Scraping - Same documentation works for all platforms
• ✅ Platform-Specific Packaging - Optimized formats for each LLM
• ✅ One-Command Export - --target flag selects platform
• ✅ Optional Dependencies - Install only what you need
• ✅ 100% Backward Compatible - Existing Claude workflows unchanged

# Claude (default - no changes needed!)
skill-seekers package output/react/
skill-seekers upload react.zip

# Google Gemini
pip install skill-seekers[gemini]
skill-seekers package output/react/ --target gemini
skill-seekers upload react-gemini.tar.gz --target gemini

# OpenAI ChatGPT
pip install skill-seekers[openai]
skill-seekers package output/react/ --target openai
skill-seekers upload react-openai.zip --target openai

# MiniMax AI
pip install skill-seekers[minimax]
skill-seekers package output/react/ --target minimax
skill-seekers upload react-minimax.zip --target minimax

# Generic Markdown (universal export)
skill-seekers package output/react/ --target markdown
# Use the markdown files directly in any LLM

skill-seekers create <source> --agent codex     # OpenAI Codex CLI → your ChatGPT Plus
skill-seekers create <source> --agent claude    # Claude Code      → your Claude Pro/Max

export OPENAI_API_KEY="<your provider key>"
export OPENAI_BASE_URL="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1"   # provider endpoint (see table)
export OPENAI_MODEL="<a model that provider offers>"     # required — default gpt-4o won't exist elsewhere
skill-seekers create <source>

export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY="your-key"
export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL="https://your-claude-compatible-endpoint/v1"

Installation:

# Install with Gemini support
pip install skill-seekers[gemini]

# Install with OpenAI support
pip install skill-seekers[openai]

# Install with MiniMax support
pip install skill-seekers[minimax]

# Install with all LLM platforms
pip install skill-seekers[all-llms]

🔗 RAG Framework Integrations

• ✅ LangChain Documents - Direct export to Document format with page_content + metadata

  • Perfect for: QA chains, retrievers, vector stores, agents
  • Example: LangChain RAG Pipeline
  • Guide: LangChain Integration

• ✅ LlamaIndex TextNodes - Export to TextNode format with unique IDs + embeddings

  • Perfect for: Query engines, chat engines, storage context
  • Example: LlamaIndex Query Engine
  • Guide: LlamaIndex Integration

• ✅ Pinecone-Ready Format - Optimized for vector database upsert

  • Perfect for: Production vector search, semantic search, hybrid search
  • Example: Pinecone Upsert
  • Guide: Pinecone Integration

Quick Export:

# LangChain Documents (JSON)
skill-seekers package output/django --target langchain
# → output/django-langchain.json

# LlamaIndex TextNodes (JSON)
skill-seekers package output/django --target llama-index
# → output/django-llama-index.json

# Markdown (Universal)
skill-seekers package output/django --target markdown
# → output/django-markdown/SKILL.md + references/

Complete RAG Pipeline Guide: RAG Pipelines Documentation

🧠 AI Coding Assistant Integrations

Transform any framework documentation into expert coding context for 4+ AI assistants:

• ✅ Cursor IDE - Generate .cursorrules for AI-powered code suggestions

  • Perfect for: Framework-specific code generation, consistent patterns
  • Works with: Cursor IDE (VS Code fork)
  • Guide: Cursor Integration
  • Example: Cursor React Skill

• ✅ Windsurf - Customize Windsurf's AI assistant context with .windsurfrules

  • Perfect for: IDE-native AI assistance, flow-based coding
  • Works with: Windsurf IDE by Codeium
  • Guide: Windsurf Integration
  • Example: Windsurf FastAPI Context

• ✅ Cline (VS Code) - System prompts + MCP for VS Code agent

  • Perfect for: Agentic code generation in VS Code
  • Works with: Cline extension for VS Code
  • Guide: Cline Integration
  • Example: Cline Django Assistant

• ✅ Continue.dev - Context servers for IDE-agnostic AI

  • Perfect for: Multi-IDE environments (VS Code, JetBrains, Vim), custom LLM providers
  • Works with: Any IDE with Continue.dev plugin
  • Guide: Continue Integration
  • Example: Continue Universal Context

Quick Export for AI Coding Tools:

# For any AI coding assistant (Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, Continue.dev)
skill-seekers create --config configs/django.json
skill-seekers package output/django --target claude  # or --target markdown

# Copy to your project (example for Cursor)
cp output/django-claude/SKILL.md my-project/.cursorrules

# Or for Windsurf
cp output/django-claude/SKILL.md my-project/.windsurf/rules/django.md

# Or for Cline
cp output/django-claude/SKILL.md my-project/.clinerules

# Or for Continue.dev (HTTP server)
python examples/continue-dev-universal/context_server.py
# Configure in ~/.continue/config.json

Integration Hub: All AI System Integrations

🌊 Three-Stream GitHub Architecture

• ✅ Triple-Stream Analysis - Split GitHub repos into Code, Docs, and Insights streams
• ✅ Unified Codebase Analyzer - Works with GitHub URLs AND local paths
• ✅ C3.x as Analysis Depth - Choose 'basic' (1-2 min) or 'c3x' (20-60 min) analysis
• ✅ Enhanced Router Generation - GitHub metadata, README quick start, common issues
• ✅ Issue Integration - Top problems and solutions from GitHub issues
• ✅ Smart Routing Keywords - GitHub labels weighted 2x for better topic detection

Three Streams Explained:

• Stream 1: Code - Deep C3.x analysis (patterns, examples, guides, configs, architecture)
• Stream 2: Docs - Repository documentation (README, CONTRIBUTING, docs/*.md)
• Stream 3: Insights - Community knowledge (issues, labels, stars, forks)

from skill_seekers.cli.unified_codebase_analyzer import UnifiedCodebaseAnalyzer

# Analyze GitHub repo with all three streams
analyzer = UnifiedCodebaseAnalyzer()
result = analyzer.analyze(
    source="https://github.com/facebook/react",
    depth="c3x",  # or "basic" for fast analysis
    fetch_github_metadata=True
)

# Access code stream (C3.x analysis)
print(f"Design patterns: {len(result.code_analysis['c3_1_patterns'])}")
print(f"Test examples: {result.code_analysis['c3_2_examples_count']}")

# Access docs stream (repository docs)
print(f"README: {result.github_docs['readme'][:100]}")

# Access insights stream (GitHub metadata)
print(f"Stars: {result.github_insights['metadata']['stars']}")
print(f"Common issues: {len(result.github_insights['common_problems'])}")

See complete documentation: Three-Stream Implementation Summary

🔐 Smart Rate Limit Management & Configuration

• ✅ Multi-Token Configuration System - Manage multiple GitHub accounts (personal, work, OSS)
  • Secure config storage at ~/.config/skill-seekers/config.json (600 permissions)
  • Per-profile rate limit strategies: prompt, wait, switch, fail
  • Configurable timeout per profile (default: 30 min, prevents indefinite waits)
  • Smart fallback chain: CLI arg → Env var → Config file → Prompt
  • API key management for Claude, Gemini, OpenAI
• ✅ Interactive Configuration Wizard - Beautiful terminal UI for easy setup
  • Browser integration for token creation (auto-opens GitHub, etc.)
  • Token validation and connection testing
  • Visual status display with color coding
• ✅ Intelligent Rate Limit Handler - No more indefinite waits!
  • Upfront warning about rate limits (60/hour vs 5000/hour)
  • Real-time detection from GitHub API responses
  • Live countdown timers with progress
  • Automatic profile switching when rate limited
  • Four strategies: prompt (ask), wait (countdown), switch (try another), fail (abort)
• ✅ Resume Capability - Continue interrupted jobs
  • Auto-save progress at configurable intervals (default: 60 sec)
  • List all resumable jobs with progress details
  • Auto-cleanup of old jobs (default: 7 days)
• ✅ CI/CD Support - Non-interactive mode for automation
  • --non-interactive flag fails fast without prompts
  • --profile flag to select specific GitHub account
  • Clear error messages for pipeline logs

Quick Setup:

# One-time configuration (5 minutes)
skill-seekers config --github

# Use specific profile for private repos
skill-seekers create mycompany/private-repo --profile work

# CI/CD mode (fail fast, no prompts)
skill-seekers create owner/repo --non-interactive

# Resume interrupted job
skill-seekers resume --list
skill-seekers resume github_react_20260117_143022

Rate Limit Strategies Explained:

• prompt (default) - Ask what to do when rate limited (wait, switch, setup token, cancel)
• wait - Automatically wait with countdown timer (respects timeout)
• switch - Automatically try next available profile (for multi-account setups)
• fail - Fail immediately with clear error (perfect for CI/CD)

🎯 Bootstrap Skill - Self-Hosting

Generate skill-seekers as a skill to use within your AI agent (Claude Code, Kimi, Codex, etc.):

# Generate the skill
./scripts/bootstrap_skill.sh

# Install to Claude Code
cp -r output/skill-seekers ~/.claude/skills/

What you get:

• ✅ Complete skill documentation - All CLI commands and usage patterns
• ✅ CLI command reference - Every tool and its options documented
• ✅ Quick start examples - Common workflows and best practices
• ✅ Auto-generated API docs - Code analysis, patterns, and examples

🔐 Private Config Repositories

• ✅ Git-Based Config Sources - Fetch configs from private/team git repositories
• ✅ Multi-Source Management - Register unlimited GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket repos
• ✅ Team Collaboration - Share custom configs across 3-5 person teams
• ✅ Enterprise Support - Scale to 500+ developers with priority-based resolution
• ✅ Secure Authentication - Environment variable tokens (GITHUB_TOKEN, GITLAB_TOKEN)
• ✅ Intelligent Caching - Clone once, pull updates automatically
• ✅ Offline Mode - Work with cached configs when offline

🤖 Codebase Analysis (C3.x)

C3.4: Configuration Pattern Extraction with AI Enhancement

• ✅ 9 Config Formats - JSON, YAML, TOML, ENV, INI, Python, JavaScript, Dockerfile, Docker Compose
• ✅ 7 Pattern Types - Database, API, logging, cache, email, auth, server configurations
• ✅ AI Enhancement - Optional dual-mode AI analysis (API + LOCAL)
  • Explains what each config does
  • Suggests best practices and improvements
  • Security analysis - Finds hardcoded secrets, exposed credentials
• ✅ Auto-Documentation - Generates JSON + Markdown documentation of all configs
• ✅ MCP Integration - extract_config_patterns tool with enhancement support

C3.3: AI-Enhanced How-To Guides

• ✅ Comprehensive AI Enhancement - Transforms basic guides into professional tutorials
• ✅ 5 Automatic Improvements - Step descriptions, troubleshooting, prerequisites, next steps, use cases
• ✅ Dual-Mode Support - API mode (Claude API) or LOCAL mode (Claude Code CLI)
• ✅ No API Costs with LOCAL Mode - FREE enhancement using your Claude Code Max plan
• ✅ Quality Transformation - 75-line templates → 500+ line comprehensive guides

Usage:

# Quick analysis (1-2 min, basic features only)
skill-seekers scan tests/ --quick

# Comprehensive analysis with AI (20-60 min, all features)
skill-seekers scan tests/ --comprehensive

# With AI enhancement
skill-seekers scan tests/ --enhance

Full Documentation: docs/features/HOW_TO_GUIDES.md

🔄 Enhancement Workflow Presets

Reusable YAML-defined enhancement pipelines that control how AI transforms your raw documentation into a polished skill.

• ✅ 5 Bundled Presets — default, minimal, security-focus, architecture-comprehensive, api-documentation
• ✅ User-Defined Presets — add custom workflows to ~/.config/skill-seekers/workflows/
• ✅ Multiple Workflows — chain two or more workflows in one command
• ✅ Fully Managed CLI — list, inspect, copy, add, remove, and validate workflows

# Apply a single workflow
skill-seekers create ./my-project --enhance-workflow security-focus

# Chain multiple workflows (applied in order)
skill-seekers create ./my-project \
  --enhance-workflow security-focus \
  --enhance-workflow minimal

# Manage presets
skill-seekers workflows list                          # List all (bundled + user)
skill-seekers workflows show security-focus           # Print YAML content
skill-seekers workflows copy security-focus           # Copy to user dir for editing
skill-seekers workflows add ./my-workflow.yaml        # Install a custom preset
skill-seekers workflows remove my-workflow            # Remove a user preset
skill-seekers workflows validate security-focus       # Validate preset structure

# Copy multiple at once
skill-seekers workflows copy security-focus minimal api-documentation

# Add multiple files at once
skill-seekers workflows add ./wf-a.yaml ./wf-b.yaml

# Remove multiple at once
skill-seekers workflows remove my-wf-a my-wf-b

YAML preset format:

name: security-focus
description: "Security-focused review: vulnerabilities, auth, data handling"
version: "1.0"
stages:
  - name: vulnerabilities
    type: custom
    prompt: "Review for OWASP top 10 and common security vulnerabilities..."
  - name: auth-review
    type: custom
    prompt: "Examine authentication and authorisation patterns..."
    uses_history: true

⚡ Performance & Scale

• ✅ Async Mode - 2-3x faster scraping with async/await (use --async flag)
• ✅ Large Documentation Support - Handle 10K-40K+ page docs with intelligent splitting
• ✅ Router/Hub Skills - Intelligent routing to specialized sub-skills
• ✅ Parallel Scraping - Process multiple skills simultaneously
• ✅ Checkpoint/Resume - Never lose progress on long scrapes
• ✅ Caching System - Scrape once, rebuild instantly

🤖 Agent-Agnostic Skill Generation

• ✅ Multi-Agent Support - Generate skills for Claude, Kimi, Codex, Copilot, OpenCode, or any custom agent via --agent flag
• ✅ Custom Agent Commands - Use --agent-cmd to specify a custom agent CLI command for enhancement
• ✅ Universal Flags - --agent and --agent-cmd available on all commands (create, scrape, github, pdf, etc.)

📦 Marketplace Pipeline

• ✅ Publish to Marketplace - Publish skills to Claude Code plugin marketplace repos
• ✅ End-to-End Pipeline - From documentation source to published marketplace entry

✅ Quality Assurance

• ✅ Fully Tested - 3,445+ tests with comprehensive coverage

📦 Installation

# Basic install (documentation scraping, GitHub analysis, PDF, packaging)
pip install skill-seekers

# With all LLM platform support
pip install skill-seekers[all-llms]

# With MCP server
pip install skill-seekers[mcp]

# Everything
pip install skill-seekers[all]

Need help choosing? Run the setup wizard:

skill-seekers-setup

Installation Options

Video visual deps (GPU-aware): After installing skill-seekers[video-full], run skill-seekers create --setup to auto-detect your GPU and install the correct PyTorch variant + easyocr. This is the recommended way to install visual extraction dependencies.

🚀 One-Command Install Workflow

The fastest way to go from config to uploaded skill - complete automation:

# Install React skill from official configs (auto-uploads to Claude)
skill-seekers install --config react

# Install from local config file
skill-seekers install --config configs/custom.json

# Install without uploading (package only)
skill-seekers install --config django --no-upload

# Preview workflow without executing
skill-seekers install --config react --dry-run

Time: 20-45 minutes total | Quality: Production-ready (9/10) | Cost: Free

Phases executed:

📥 PHASE 1: Fetch Config (if config name provided)
📖 PHASE 2: Scrape Documentation
✨ PHASE 3: AI Enhancement (MANDATORY - no skip option)
📦 PHASE 4: Package Skill
☁️  PHASE 5: Upload to Claude (optional, requires API key)

Requirements:

• ANTHROPIC_API_KEY environment variable (for auto-upload)
• Claude Code Max plan (for local AI enhancement), or use --agent to select a different AI agent

📊 Feature Matrix

Skill Seekers supports 21 LLM platforms, 8 RAG/vector targets, 18 source types, and full feature parity across all targets.

Platforms: Claude AI, Google Gemini, OpenAI ChatGPT, MiniMax AI, Generic Markdown, OpenCode, Kimi (Moonshot AI), DeepSeek AI, Qwen (Alibaba), OpenRouter, Together AI, Fireworks AI Source Types: Documentation websites, GitHub repos, PDFs, Word (.docx), EPUB, Video, Local codebases, Jupyter Notebooks, Local HTML, OpenAPI/Swagger, AsciiDoc, PowerPoint (.pptx), RSS/Atom feeds, Man pages, Confluence wikis, Notion pages, Slack/Discord chat exports

See Complete Feature Matrix for detailed platform and feature support.

Quick Platform Comparison

Usage Examples

Documentation Scraping

# Scrape documentation website
skill-seekers create --config configs/react.json

# Quick scrape without config
skill-seekers create https://react.dev --name react

# With async mode (3x faster)
skill-seekers create --config configs/godot.json --async --workers 8

# Use a specific AI agent for enhancement
skill-seekers create --config configs/react.json --agent kimi

PDF Extraction

# Basic PDF extraction
skill-seekers create --pdf docs/manual.pdf --name myskill

# Advanced features
skill-seekers create --pdf docs/manual.pdf --name myskill \
    --extract-tables \        # Extract tables
    --parallel \              # Fast parallel processing
    --workers 8               # Use 8 CPU cores

# Scanned PDFs (requires: pip install pytesseract Pillow)
skill-seekers create --pdf docs/scanned.pdf --name myskill --ocr

Video Extraction

# Install video support
pip install skill-seekers[video]        # Transcripts + metadata
pip install skill-seekers[video-full]   # + Whisper + visual frame extraction

# Auto-detect GPU and install visual deps (PyTorch + easyocr)
skill-seekers create --setup

# Extract from YouTube video
skill-seekers create --video-url https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ --name mytutorial

# Extract from a YouTube playlist
skill-seekers create --video-playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=... --name myplaylist

# Extract from a local video file
skill-seekers create --video-file recording.mp4 --name myrecording

# Extract with visual frame analysis (requires video-full deps)
skill-seekers create --video-url https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=... --name mytutorial --visual

# With AI enhancement (cleans OCR + generates polished SKILL.md)
skill-seekers create --video-url https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=... --visual --enhance-level 2

# Clip a specific section of a video (supports seconds, MM:SS, HH:MM:SS)
skill-seekers create --video-url https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=... --start-time 1:30 --end-time 5:00

# Use Vision API for low-confidence OCR frames (requires ANTHROPIC_API_KEY)
skill-seekers create --video-url https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=... --visual --vision-ocr

# Re-build skill from previously extracted data (skip download)
skill-seekers create --from-json output/mytutorial/video_data/extracted_data.json --name mytutorial

Full guide: See docs/VIDEO_GUIDE.md for complete CLI reference, visual pipeline details, AI enhancement options, and troubleshooting.

GitHub Repository Analysis

# Basic repository scraping
skill-seekers create facebook/react

# With authentication (higher rate limits)
export GITHUB_TOKEN=ghp_your_token_here
skill-seekers create facebook/react

# Customize what to include
skill-seekers create django/django \
    --include-issues \        # Extract GitHub Issues
    --max-issues 100 \        # Limit issue count
    --include-changelog       # Extract CHANGELOG.md

Unified Multi-Source Scraping

Combine documentation + GitHub + PDF into one unified skill with conflict detection:

# Use existing unified configs
skill-seekers create --config configs/react_unified.json
skill-seekers create --config configs/django_unified.json

# Or create unified config
cat > configs/myframework_unified.json << 'EOF'
{
  "name": "myframework",
  "merge_mode": "rule-based",
  "sources": [
    {
      "type": "documentation",
      "base_url": "https://docs.myframework.com/",
      "max_pages": 200
    },
    {
      "type": "github",
      "repo": "owner/myframework",
      "code_analysis_depth": "surface"
    }
  ]
}
EOF

skill-seekers create --config configs/myframework_unified.json

Conflict Detection automatically finds:

• 🔴 Missing in code (high): Documented but not implemented
• 🟡 Missing in docs (medium): Implemented but not documented
• ⚠️ Signature mismatch: Different parameters/types
• ℹ️ Description mismatch: Different explanations

Full Guide: See docs/features/UNIFIED_SCRAPING.md for complete documentation.

Private Config Repositories

Share custom configs across teams using private git repositories:

# Option 1: Using MCP tools (recommended)
# Register your team's private repo
add_config_source(
    name="team",
    git_url="https://github.com/mycompany/skill-configs.git",
    token_env="GITHUB_TOKEN"
)

# Fetch config from team repo
fetch_config(source="team", config_name="internal-api")

Supported Platforms:

• GitHub (GITHUB_TOKEN), GitLab (GITLAB_TOKEN), Gitea (GITEA_TOKEN), Bitbucket (BITBUCKET_TOKEN)

Full Guide: See docs/reference/GIT_CONFIG_SOURCES.md for complete documentation.

How It Works

graph LR
    A[Documentation Website] --> B[Skill Seekers]
    B --> C[Scraper]
    B --> D[AI Enhancement]
    B --> E[Packager]
    C --> F[Organized References]
    D --> F
    F --> E
    E --> G[AI Skill .zip]
    G --> H[Upload to AI Platform]

0. Detect llms.txt - Checks for llms-full.txt, llms.txt, llms-small.txt first (part of Smart SPA Discovery)
1. Scrape: Extracts all pages from documentation
2. Categorize: Organizes content into topics (API, guides, tutorials, etc.)
3. Enhance: AI analyzes docs and creates comprehensive SKILL.md with examples (supports multiple agents via --agent)
4. Package: Bundles everything into a platform-ready .zip file

Architecture

The system is organized into 8 core modules and 5 utility modules (~200 classes total):

Utility modules: Parsers (28 CLI parsers), Storage (S3/GCS/Azure), Embedding (multi-provider vectors), Benchmark (performance), Utilities (16 shared helpers).

Full UML diagrams: docs/UML_ARCHITECTURE.md | StarUML project: docs/UML/skill_seekers.mdj | HTML API reference: docs/UML/html/

📋 Prerequisites

Before you start, make sure you have:

1. Python 3.10 or higher - Download | Check: python3 --version
2. Git - Download | Check: git --version
3. 15-30 minutes for first-time setup

First time user? → Start Here: Bulletproof Quick Start Guide 🎯

📤 Uploading Skills to Claude

Once your skill is packaged, you need to upload it to Claude:

Option 1: Automatic Upload (API-based)

# Set your API key (one-time)
export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-ant-...

# Package and upload automatically
skill-seekers package output/react/ --upload

# OR upload existing .zip
skill-seekers upload output/react.zip

Option 2: Manual Upload (No API Key)

# Package skill
skill-seekers package output/react/
# → Creates output/react.zip

# Then manually upload:
# - Go to https://claude.ai/skills
# - Click "Upload Skill"
# - Select output/react.zip

Option 3: MCP (Claude Code)

In Claude Code, just ask:
"Package and upload the React skill"

🤖 Installing to AI Agents

Skill Seekers can automatically install skills to 19 AI coding agents.

# Install to specific agent
skill-seekers install-agent output/react/ --agent cursor

# Install to IBM Bob (project-local .bob/skills/)
skill-seekers install-agent output/react/ --agent bob

# Install to all agents at once
skill-seekers install-agent output/react/ --agent all

# Preview without installing
skill-seekers install-agent output/react/ --agent cursor --dry-run

Supported Agents

🔌 MCP Integration (40 Tools)

Skill Seekers ships an MCP server for use from Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code + Cline, or IntelliJ IDEA.

# stdio mode (Claude Code, VS Code + Cline)
python -m skill_seekers.mcp.server_fastmcp

# HTTP mode (Cursor, Windsurf, IntelliJ)
python -m skill_seekers.mcp.server_fastmcp --transport http --port 8765

# Auto-configure all agents at once
./setup_mcp.sh

All 40 tools available:

• Core (9): list_configs, generate_config, validate_config, estimate_pages, scrape_docs, package_skill, upload_skill, enhance_skill, install_skill
• Extended (10): scrape_github, scrape_pdf, unified_scrape, merge_sources, detect_conflicts, add_config_source, fetch_config, list_config_sources, remove_config_source, split_config
• Vector DB (4): export_to_chroma, export_to_weaviate, export_to_faiss, export_to_qdrant
• Cloud (3): cloud_upload, cloud_download, cloud_list

Full Guide: docs/guides/MCP_SETUP.md

⚙️ Configuration

Available Presets (24+)

# List all presets
# skill-seekers list-configs  # Not available in v3.7.0

Creating Your Own Config

# Option 1: Interactive
skill-seekers create --interactive

# Option 2: Copy and edit a preset
cp configs/react.json configs/myframework.json
nano configs/myframework.json
skill-seekers create --config configs/myframework.json

Config File Structure

{
  "name": "myframework",
  "description": "When to use this skill",
  "base_url": "https://docs.myframework.com/",
  "selectors": {
    "main_content": "article",
    "title": "h1",
    "code_blocks": "pre code"
  },
  "url_patterns": {
    "include": ["/docs", "/guide"],
    "exclude": ["/blog", "/about"]
  },
  "categories": {
    "getting_started": ["intro", "quickstart"],
    "api": ["api", "reference"]
  },
  "rate_limit": 0.5,
  "max_pages": 500
}

Where to Store Configs

The tool searches in this order:

1. Exact path as provided
2. ./configs/ (current directory)
3. ~/.config/skill-seekers/configs/ (user config directory)
4. SkillSeekersWeb.com API (preset configs)

📊 What Gets Created

output/
├── godot_data/              # Scraped raw data
│   ├── pages/              # JSON files (one per page)
│   └── summary.json        # Overview
│
└── godot/                   # The skill
    ├── SKILL.md            # Enhanced with real examples
    ├── references/         # Categorized docs
    │   ├── index.md
    │   ├── getting_started.md
    │   ├── scripting.md
    │   └── ...
    ├── scripts/            # Empty (add your own)
    └── assets/             # Empty (add your own)

🐛 Troubleshooting

No Content Extracted?

• Check your main_content selector
• Try: article, main, div[role="main"]

Data Exists But Won't Use It?

# Force re-scrape
rm -rf output/myframework_data/
skill-seekers create --config configs/myframework.json

Categories Not Good?

Edit the config categories section with better keywords.

Want to Update Docs?

# Delete old data and re-scrape
rm -rf output/godot_data/
skill-seekers create --config configs/godot.json

Enhancement Not Working?

# Check if API key is set
echo $ANTHROPIC_API_KEY

# Try LOCAL mode instead (uses Claude Code Max, no API key needed)
skill-seekers enhance output/react/ --mode LOCAL

# Monitor background enhancement status
skill-seekers enhance-status output/react/ --watch

GitHub Rate Limit Issues?

# Set a GitHub token (5000 req/hour vs 60/hour anonymous)
export GITHUB_TOKEN=ghp_your_token_here

# Or configure multiple profiles
skill-seekers config --github

📈 Performance

🆕 New in v3.6.0

Workflow Presets

Control analysis depth with --preset:

skill-seekers create https://docs.react.dev/ --preset quick      # Fast, surface-level
skill-seekers create https://docs.react.dev/ --preset standard   # Balanced (default)
skill-seekers create https://docs.react.dev/ --preset comprehensive # Deep, exhaustive

Lifecycle Flags

skill-seekers create https://docs.react.dev/ --dry-run    # Preview without scraping
skill-seekers create https://docs.react.dev/ --fresh      # Ignore cache, full re-scrape
skill-seekers create https://docs.react.dev/ --resume     # Resume interrupted job
skill-seekers create https://docs.react.dev/ --skip-scrape # Re-package existing output

Health Check & Utilities

skill-seekers doctor                    # Diagnose installation & environment
skill-seekers sync-config               # Detect config drift
skill-seekers stream <source>           # Streaming ingestion for large docs
skill-seekers update output/react/      # Incremental update
skill-seekers multilang <source>        # Multi-language skill generation
skill-seekers quality output/react/     # Quality scoring

RAG Chunking Options (package)

skill-seekers package output/react/ --chunk-for-rag --chunk-tokens 512 --chunk-overlap-tokens 50

Marketplace Publishing

skill-seekers package output/react/ --marketplace --marketplace-category frontend

Additional Optional Dependencies

📚 Documentation

Getting Started

• BULLETPROOF_QUICKSTART.md - 🎯 START HERE if you're new!
• QUICKSTART.md - Quick start for experienced users
• TROUBLESHOOTING.md - Common issues and solutions
• docs/archive/legacy/QUICK_REFERENCE.md - One-page cheat sheet

Architecture

• docs/UML_ARCHITECTURE.md - UML architecture overview with 14 diagrams
• docs/UML/exports/ - PNG diagram exports (package overview + 13 class diagrams)
• docs/UML/html/ - Full HTML API reference (all classes, operations, attributes)
• docs/UML/skill_seekers.mdj - StarUML project file (open with StarUML)

Guides

• docs/reference/LARGE_DOCUMENTATION.md - Handle 10K-40K+ page docs
• docs/features/ENHANCEMENT_MODES.md - AI enhancement modes guide
• docs/guides/MCP_SETUP.md - MCP integration setup
• docs/features/UNIFIED_SCRAPING.md - Multi-source scraping
• docs/VIDEO_GUIDE.md - Video extraction guide

Integration Guides

• docs/integrations/LANGCHAIN.md - LangChain RAG
• docs/integrations/CURSOR.md - Cursor IDE
• docs/integrations/WINDSURF.md - Windsurf IDE
• docs/integrations/CLINE.md - Cline (VS Code)
• docs/integrations/RAG_PIPELINES.md - All RAG pipelines

📝 License

MIT License - see LICENSE file for details

Happy skill building! 🚀

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