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title: "pdf-tools-workflow"
description: "A host-portable, evidence-first workflow for using a separately configured PDF Tools MCP connection."
canonical: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/pdf-tools-workflow
last-updated: 2026-09-22
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# pdf-tools-workflow
A host-portable, evidence-first workflow for using a separately configured PDF Tools MCP connection.
- Slug: pdf-tools-workflow
- Publisher: Open Document Alliance
- Repository: https://github.com/Open-Document-Alliance/PDF-Tools
- Manifest: plugins/pdf-tools-workflow/plugin.json
- Version: 0.1.0-alpha.1
- License: MIT
- Category (editorial): documentation
- Skills: 1 (pdf-tools-workflow)
- MCP servers: 0
- Stars: 157
- Repository created: 2025-06-26
- Repository last pushed: 2026-09-22
- Publisher type: Organization
- Listing: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/pdf-tools-workflow
- Schema: https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json

## What pdf-tools-workflow does, in the publisher's words

The local PDF workflow for Claude Desktop and MCP hosts: fill, sign, merge, split, extract, render, and analyze PDFs with local file operations.

Instead of just opening a PDF, PDF Tools lets Claude fetch PDF URLs to your machine, inspect documents visually, fill forms, save reusable profiles, add signature/date zones, merge and split files, reorganize pages visually, extract structured data, and return document content to your chosen MCP host for analysis.

This package targets Claude Desktop and other local MCP hosts today. It does not yet include a remote connector for Claude Cowork / web-hosted Claude.

From the project README, punctuation lightly normalized. Full text: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Open-Document-Alliance/PDF-Tools/HEAD/README.md

## Skills

- pdf-tools-workflow: Run bounded, evidence-first PDF work through a separately configured PDF Tools MCP connection. Use for inspecting, comparing, filling, stamping, organizing, preparing for signature, validating, or returning PDFs when the source must remain unchanged and every result must be independently read back.…

Descriptions come from the frontmatter of each SKILL.md, punctuation lightly normalized.