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download-gated-pdfs

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Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a coding skill usually runs build and test commands.

By kennethkhoocy/applied-micro-skills (GitHub) · coding · 20 stars · scanned at commit 28d6f64

Download the actual PDF binary from bot-gated sites (taxpolicycenter.org, urban.org, SSRN-hosted mirrors, think-tank/publisher sites) via the Wayback Machine id_ URL form. Use when: (1) curl/WebFetch of a .pdf URL returns HTML instead of a PDF even with a browser User-Agent, (2) pypdf fails with "invalid pdf header: b'<!DOC'" or "EOF marker not found" on a freshly downloaded file, (3) Firecrawl can parse the PDF to markdown but you need the original file on disk (e.g., filing a reference copy).

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'download-gated-pdfs' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'download-gated-pdfs' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named download-gated-pdfs already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/kennethkhoocy/applied-micro-skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '28d6f6445e745711fc64a4faeebca35eac1b2b02' -- 'plugins/applied-micro/skills/download-gated-pdfs' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'plugins/applied-micro/skills/download-gated-pdfs' ~/.agents/skills/'download-gated-pdfs' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'download-gated-pdfs' ~/.claude/skills/'download-gated-pdfs' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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