Fast structured reading of a book, article or podcast into one note (thesis, context, abstract, chapter analysis, short cited quotes, questions, tags, suggested atomic and contrast notes). Use when the person says "speed-read this", "summarise this book", "take notes on this article", "what does this episode argue", or hands over a PDF, ePub, transcript, URL or title.
Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.
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name: speed-reader
description: Fast structured reading of a book, article or podcast into one note (thesis, context, abstract, chapter analysis, short cited quotes, questions, tags, suggested atomic and contrast notes). Use when the person says "speed-read this", "summarise this book", "take notes on this article", "what does this episode argue", or hands over a PDF, ePub, transcript, URL or title.
---
# speed-reader
Thin entry (PAROS P04). The knowledge lives in a live definition; this file only finds it.
1. Locate the live definition, first match wins:
- where the vault entry file (`AGENTS.md` or `CLAUDE.md`) says skills live: `<skills folder>/speed-reader/CURRENT.md`;
- `<vault>/PAROS/skills/speed-reader/CURRENT.md`;
- the PAROS reference copy: `<paros repo>/skills/speed-reader/CURRENT.md`.
2. Read it in full, and the `LOCAL.md` next to it if present. Read its `version:` field.
3. Report one line before working:
- from the vault: `Running speed-reader v<X> from your vault`;
- from the reference copy: `Running speed-reader v<X> from the PAROS reference, not yet adopted`.
4. Follow it. Its `## Constitution` always wins.
5. If the person corrects the result, write a learning packet to the skill's `observations/` folder (P05).
