digest-this
Digests any long, dense, or complex content — documents, PDFs, transcripts, long messages — into a short, low cognitive load summary. Use this skill whenever someone pastes in something long, sends a wall of text, or needs to understand something quickly without reading it in full. Always produces short, scannable output regardless of how long the input is. Use proactively when content is long or complex even if the user hasn't explicitly asked for a digest.
npx skills add majiayu000/claude-skill-registry --skill digest-this --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Digest This A skill that sits between you and long or complex content, making it accessible without losing what matters. This skill does one thing: takes something long, dense, or hard to read and turns it into something short, clear, and scannable. The output is always brief regardless of how long the input is. A ten page document and a long email get the same treatment — a short, structured summary the user can actually absorb. --- ## What Makes This Different From a Standard Summary Claude's default behaviour is to produce summaries proportional to the input — long document, long summary. This skill enforces the opposite. The output is always short. Always structured. Never a wall of text. It also asks one question before acting, so the output is shaped around what the user actually needs rather than what Claude assumes they need. And it produces the same reliable format every time, regardless of how the user asks. --- ## When to Apply **Apply automatically when:** - The user pastes in a long block of text, document, transcript, or message - The content is clearly longer than the user needs to read in full - The user says things like "what does this say", "can you summarise th
- What Makes This Different From a Standard Summary
- When to Apply
- Core Principles
- Step 1 — Receive the Content
- Step 2 — Ask One Question
- Step 3 — Produce the Digest
- Gist
- Key Points
- Actions
- Explain
- Output Rules — Apply to All Modes
- Closing Line
- What This Skill Does Not Do
What does the digest-this skill do?
Digests any long, dense, or complex content — documents, PDFs, transcripts, long messages — into a short, low cognitive load summary. Use this skill whenever someone pastes in something long, sends a wall of text, or needs to understand something quickly without reading it in full. Always produces short, scannable output regardless of how long the input is. Use proactively when content is long or complex even if the user hasn't explicitly asked for a digest.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add majiayu000/claude-skill-registry --skill digest-this --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From majiayu000/claude-skill-registry, a repository with 534 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.