document-to-action-items

Extract cited obligations, deadlines, and tasks from documents into proposed actions.

Updated Jul 3, 2026
One-click install
npx skills add https://github.com/CHENHUI-X/toolbox --skill document-to-action-items-chenhui-x
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Skill: document-to-action-items
Source: https://github.com/CHENHUI-X/toolbox/tree/main/official-skills/productivity/document-to-action-items
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/CHENHUI-X/toolbox --skill document-to-action-items-chenhui-x

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION & REQUIREMENTS

What problem does it solve? Turning contracts, reports, and scanned forms into actionable tasks usually requires manual reading, and critical details like deadlines, owners, and obligations get lost or misquoted. This Skill structures extracted document content into cited facts and proposed actions while preserving uncertainty and provenance. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Cited Extraction: Pulls obligations, deadlines, parties, amounts, and risks from PDFs and DOCX files with file and page-level citations. - Modality Preservation: Keeps distinctions between "may", "should", and "must", and flags low-confidence OCR or ambiguous clauses instead of guessing. - Approved Task Creation: Converts validated obligations into proposed tasks with owners, due dates, and dependencies, writing to Notion, calendars, or spreadsheets only after explicit user approval. - Use Case: Upload a vendor contract and receive a structured list of payment deadlines, renewal obligations, and risk clauses, each linked to its source page, ready to push into your task tracker. ## Quick Start Extract all deadlines, obligations, and owners from this contract PDF and propose tasks with page citations for my review.

Frequently Asked Questions about document-to-action-items

High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.

FAQPage Schema
How do I extract deadlines and obligations from a contract?

Provide the contract file and the Skill inventories the document, extracts text with page citations via the pdf or docx skills, classifies obligations and dates, then proposes tasks with owners and due dates. Nothing is written externally until you approve the structured output.

How to turn a PDF report into actionable tasks?

Load the PDF and the Skill extracts content with provenance, separates facts from obligations, validates dates and totals, then converts each actionable item into a proposed task with outcome, owner, due date, and citation. Unknown owners or dates are marked unresolved rather than invented.

Does document extraction work with scanned or low-quality files?

Yes, but scanned documents go through OCR with confidence tracking. Low-confidence fields and unreadable clauses are surfaced explicitly in the output instead of being treated as exact text, so you can review uncertain items before acting on them.

Can extracted tasks be sent to Notion or a calendar automatically?

Tasks are only drafted first and presented for your approval. Writing to Notion, a calendar, or a spreadsheet requires your explicit scope, and every created record is read back and verified for owner, date, and link.

When should I not use document-to-action-items?

Skip it when you only need plain text extraction with no downstream structuring; load the pdf skill directly instead. It is also not a substitute for professional review of legal, medical, tax, or safety-critical interpretation.