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Use when fetching a URL, web page, or PDF as Markdown. Not for local files already in the repo.

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Sourcetw93/waza

Added on2026-04-06

NPX Install

npx skill4agent add tw93/waza read

SKILL.md Content

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Read: Fetch Any URL or PDF as Markdown

Convert any URL or local PDF to clean Markdown and save it.

Routing

Input	Method
`mp.weixin.qq.com`	WeChat script
`.pdf` URL or local PDF path	PDF extraction
Everything else	Proxy cascade

After routing, load

references/read-methods.md

to get the specific commands for the chosen method, then execute.

Output Format

Title:  {title}
Author: {author} (if available)
Source: {platform}
URL:    {original url}

Summary
{3-5 sentence summary}

Content
{full Markdown, truncated at 200 lines if long}

Saving

Save to

~/Downloads/{title}.md

with YAML frontmatter by default. Skip only if user says "just preview" or "don't save". Tell the user the saved path.

After saving and reporting the path, stop. Do not analyze, comment on, or discuss the content unless asked. If content was truncated at 200 lines, say so and offer to continue.

Notes

r.jina.ai and defuddle.md require no API key
Network failures: prepend local proxy env vars if available
Long content:
```
| head -n 200
```
to preview first
GitHub URLs: prefer
```
gh
```
CLI over fetching directly