Swarmclaw nano-pdf

Edit or create PDFs with natural-language instructions using the nano-pdf CLI. Use when asked to make a PDF, edit a PDF, add pages, change text in a PDF, or convert content to PDF format.

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/swarmclawai/swarmclaw

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/swarmclawai/swarmclaw "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/nano-pdf" ~/.claude/skills/swarmclawai-swarmclaw-nano-pdf && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: skills/nano-pdf/SKILL.md

source content

nano-pdf

Use

nano-pdf

to apply edits to a specific page in a PDF using a natural-language instruction.

Quick Start

nano-pdf edit deck.pdf 1 "Change the title to 'Q3 Results' and fix the typo in the subtitle"

Creating a New PDF

nano-pdf create output.pdf "Create a one-page summary of quarterly results with a header, bullet points, and a footer"

Usage in SwarmClaw

When a user asks to create or edit a PDF:

Check if
```
nano-pdf
```
is installed:
```
which nano-pdf
```

If not installed, install via

uv tool install nano-pdf

pip install nano-pdf

Run the appropriate command
Report the output file path to the user

Notes

Page numbers are 0-based or 1-based depending on the tool's version; if the result looks off by one, retry with the other.
Always sanity-check the output PDF before reporting success.
For multi-page edits, run separate commands per page.