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Skill

Make PDF

gstack

Turns a Markdown file into a polished, publication-quality PDF ready to hand off or print. Its job is the format conversion - Markdown in, styled PDF out - not writing or updating the documentation's content, and not extracting data from web pages.

Situations it fits

You have a finished Markdown report and want it turned into a clean, print-ready PDF to send to a client.
Make PDF. The two documentation skills are the trap. make-pdf converts a Markdown file into a polished PDF - a format change, not a content change. By contrast document-generate writes documentation that does not exist yet, from scratch, for undocumented code; document-release updates EXISTING docs after a change ships, bringing them back in sync with what landed; scrape extracts structured data from a web page that does not hand it over cleanly.
Convert our project's Markdown README into a print-ready, nicely styled PDF we can hand to partners at the conference.
Make PDF. make-pdf (gstack) specifically converts Markdown into a polished, publication-quality PDF suitable for printing, which is exactly the requested task. The generic PDF skill manipulates PDFs but doesn't promise a Markdown-to-styled-PDF pipeline; DOCX, PPTX are for Word and slides respectively.

4 scenarios in the bank answer to Make PDF. The rest are in the game.

Skills it gets confused with

These share a family with Make PDF, which is another way of saying they are the ones you might reach for by mistake.

Knowing what Make PDF does is the easy half. Telling it apart from the others under time pressure is the game.

Today's session

Make PDF is part of garrytan/gstack. Licence: MIT. The description above was written for this game, not taken from the skill.