---
name: chatprd-book-inventory-skill
description: "Use this skill when the user wants to:"
metadata:
  decimalai-skill-id: "6ec77db8-c702-4a96-a334-26657f3ee976"
  decimalai-version-id: "aad71f74-1843-4810-a360-50dda08e2219"
  decimalai-version: "1"
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  decimalai-name: "chatprd/book-inventory-skill"
  decimalai-format: "1"
  decimalai-invocation: "model"
  decimalai-category: "productivity"
  decimalai-source: "https://app.decimal.ai/s/chatprd-book-inventory-skill@1/SKILL.md"
---
# Book Inventory Skill

Use this skill when the user wants to:
- add books from photos
- maintain a household book inventory
- ask what books are available for a child or age range
- get reading suggestions from the current inventory

## Goal

Turn ad hoc book piles into a usable home library record.

## Inputs

Usually one or more photos of bookshelves, stacks, or covers.

## Workflow

1. Extract visible titles, authors, and format clues from the image.
2. Add them to `workspace/resources/books/inventory.md` in a simple structured format (or `resources/books/inventory.md` under a deployed `workspace/` copy).
3. If uncertain, mark entries as approximate rather than inventing confidence.
4. When asked for a recommendation, use:
   - age appropriateness
   - reading level if known
   - topic or mood requested
   - whether the family already owns it

## Inventory format

Use bullets like:
- Title — Author | age: 5-8 | type: picture book / chapter book / reference | notes: bedtime favorite

## Rules

- Do not invent titles you cannot read with reasonable confidence.
- If a spine is unreadable, note it as unknown.
- Prefer adding fewer accurate books over many shaky ones.
- If duplicates appear, consolidate them.

## Helpful outputs

- “Added 12 books, 3 uncertain.”
- “You already own several good bedtime options for ages 4-6.”
- “Best current pick for dinosaurs: ...”