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Cangjie Book Distiller

Turns a book, video transcript, or course into reusable, step-by-step agent skills.

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Repository
kangarooking/cangjie-skill
Stars
11,998
Licence
MIT
Files
7 files

What it does

When installed, the agent can take a long piece of content such as a book, podcast transcript, course, or interview and extract its practical frameworks, principles, checklists, and procedures. It verifies these against the source text, groups them into a set of focused skills that can be invoked in real situations, and produces a reader-friendly digest. It is designed to avoid producing plain summaries, book reviews, or role-played authors.

Great for

  • Readers who want to turn a dense non-fiction book into practical tools they can apply at work
  • Creators or teams who want to build a reusable skill library from a body of expert material
  • Anyone who already has the source text as a file or transcript and is willing to review the agent's decisions

Skip it if

  • Quick summaries or book reviews, which the skill explicitly does not do (it is designed for extracting methods, not overviews)
  • Imitating an author's persona or role-playing a writer, which the skill says belongs to a different skill (nuwa-skill)
  • Distilling content without providing source text, since the skill instructs the agent to ask for the text rather than work from memory

Try asking

  • “Distill this book into skills: /path/to/book.pdf”
  • “把这个播客的文字稿蒸馏成 skill”
  • “Turn this course transcript into a set of reusable skills for my workflow”
  • “帮我拆《穷查理宝典》”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Cangjie Book DistillerInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 7 original files, the MIT licence and an attribution note.

    cangjie-skill.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip cangjie-skill.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip cangjie-skill.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 3

    Ask for the task

    No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.

Get better results

  • Start with a single pilot book to check the workflow before batch-processing several sources.
  • Review the coverage audit and the user confirmation checkpoints rather than accepting the output blindly, since extraction quality depends on the source text.
  • For videos or podcasts, first obtain a transcript with a separate tool, then provide that text file to the skill.

What's inside

  • CHANGELOG.md
  • CONTRIBUTING.md
  • GITHUB_REPO.md
  • README.ja.md
  • README.md
  • README.zh-CN.md
  • SKILL.md

Redistributed unmodified from kangarooking/cangjie-skill under the MIT licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.