What is five-skills?

This repository is not a piece of software in the usual sense. It is a curated list recommending five foundational AI agent skills for teachers who regularly work with large volumes of documents, handouts, and exam papers. The idea is that installing these skills gives an AI assistant the ability to move teaching material freely between different file formats. The first skill lets the AI directly read Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files, so a teacher no longer has to manually copy and paste content out of an exam file before asking the AI to reformat it, summarize it, or rewrite questions. The second skill converts messy PDFs or documents into clean plain text formatted as Markdown, which matters because publisher supplied question bank PDFs are often poorly formatted, and feeding that mess directly to an AI tends to cause it to misread or invent content. Cleaning the text first makes AI generated summaries and new questions noticeably more accurate. The third skill precisely extracts a PDF's internal structure, including where text sits on the page, where images are placed, and the document's table of contents, which is useful when a teacher wants an AI to read only certain textbook pages or match up a diagram with its caption. The fourth skill applies text recognition to scanned image only PDFs, such as old paper exams that were only ever scanned rather than typed, turning them into documents where the text can be selected and copied out. The fifth skill renders a chosen PDF page as a high quality image with white margins automatically trimmed, useful for pulling a single textbook illustration into a slide or worksheet without manual screenshotting. The README itself contains no application code and no license section, only a short copyright line naming the author and a version number, so anyone wanting to reuse this material should treat its terms as unclear.