skill-seekers-reference/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to Skill Seeker will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

1.2.0 - 2025-10-23

🚀 PDF Advanced Features Release

Major enhancement to PDF extraction capabilities with Priority 2 & 3 features.

Added

Priority 2: Support More PDF Types

• OCR Support for Scanned PDFs

  • Automatic text extraction from scanned documents using Tesseract OCR
  • Fallback mechanism when page text < 50 characters
  • Integration with pytesseract and Pillow
  • Command: --ocr flag
  • New dependencies: Pillow==11.0.0, pytesseract==0.3.13

• Password-Protected PDF Support

  • Handle encrypted PDFs with password authentication
  • Clear error messages for missing/wrong passwords
  • Secure password handling
  • Command: --password PASSWORD flag

• Complex Table Extraction

  • Extract tables from PDFs using PyMuPDF's table detection
  • Capture table data as 2D arrays with metadata (bbox, row/col count)
  • Integration with skill references in markdown format
  • Command: --extract-tables flag

Priority 3: Performance Optimizations

• Parallel Page Processing

  • 3x faster PDF extraction using ThreadPoolExecutor
  • Auto-detect CPU count or custom worker specification
  • Only activates for PDFs with > 5 pages
  • Commands: --parallel and --workers N flags
  • Benchmarks: 500-page PDF reduced from 4m 10s to 1m 15s

• Intelligent Caching

  • In-memory cache for expensive operations (text extraction, code detection, quality scoring)
  • 50% faster on re-runs
  • Command: --no-cache to disable (enabled by default)

New Documentation

• docs/PDF_ADVANCED_FEATURES.md (580 lines)
  • Complete usage guide for all advanced features
  • Installation instructions
  • Performance benchmarks showing 3x speedup
  • Best practices and troubleshooting
  • API reference with all parameters

Testing

• New test file: tests/test_pdf_advanced_features.py (568 lines, 26 tests)
  • TestOCRSupport (5 tests)
  • TestPasswordProtection (4 tests)
  • TestTableExtraction (5 tests)
  • TestCaching (5 tests)
  • TestParallelProcessing (4 tests)
  • TestIntegration (3 tests)
• Updated: tests/test_pdf_extractor.py (23 tests fixed and passing)
• Total PDF tests: 49/49 PASSING ✅ (100% pass rate)

Changed

• Enhanced cli/pdf_extractor_poc.py with all advanced features
• Updated requirements.txt with new dependencies
• Updated README.md with PDF advanced features usage
• Updated docs/TESTING.md with new test counts (142 total tests)

Performance Improvements

• 3.3x faster with parallel processing (8 workers)
• 1.7x faster on re-runs with caching enabled
• Support for unlimited page PDFs (no more 500-page limit)

Dependencies

• Added Pillow==11.0.0 for image processing
• Added pytesseract==0.3.13 for OCR support
• Tesseract OCR engine (system package, optional)

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1.1.0 - 2025-10-22

🌐 Documentation Scraping Enhancements

Major improvements to documentation scraping with unlimited pages, parallel processing, and new configs.

Added

Unlimited Scraping & Performance

• Unlimited Page Scraping - Removed 500-page limit, now supports unlimited pages
• Parallel Scraping Mode - Process multiple pages simultaneously for faster scraping
• Dynamic Rate Limiting - Smart rate limit control to avoid server blocks
• CLI Utilities - New helper scripts for common tasks

New Configurations

• Ansible Core 2.19 - Complete Ansible documentation config
• Claude Code - Documentation for this very tool!
• Laravel 9.x - PHP framework documentation

Testing & Quality

• Comprehensive test coverage for CLI utilities
• Parallel scraping test suite
• Virtual environment setup documentation
• Thread-safety improvements

Fixed

• Thread-safety issues in parallel scraping
• CLI path references across all documentation
• Flaky upload_skill tests
• MCP server streaming subprocess implementation

Changed

• All CLI examples now use cli/ directory prefix
• Updated documentation structure
• Enhanced error handling

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1.0.0 - 2025-10-19

🎉 First Production Release

This is the first production-ready release of Skill Seekers with complete feature set, full test coverage, and comprehensive documentation.

Added

Smart Auto-Upload Feature

• New upload_skill.py CLI tool for automatic API-based upload
• Enhanced package_skill.py with --upload flag
• Smart API key detection with graceful fallback
• Cross-platform folder opening in utils.py
• Helpful error messages instead of confusing errors

MCP Integration Enhancements

• 9 MCP tools (added upload_skill tool)
• mcp__skill-seeker__upload_skill - Upload .zip files to Claude automatically
• Enhanced package_skill tool with smart auto-upload parameter
• Updated all MCP documentation to reflect 9 tools

Documentation Improvements

• Updated README with version badge (v1.0.0)
• Enhanced upload guide with 3 upload methods
• Updated MCP setup guide with all 9 tools
• Comprehensive test documentation (14/14 tests)
• All references to tool counts corrected

Fixed

• Missing import os in mcp/server.py
• package_skill.py exit code behavior (now exits 0 when API key missing)
• Improved UX with helpful messages instead of errors

Changed

• Test count badge updated (96 → 14 passing)
• All documentation references updated to 9 tools

Testing

• CLI Tests: 8/8 PASSED ✅
• MCP Tests: 6/6 PASSED ✅
• Total: 14/14 PASSED (100%)

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0.4.0 - 2025-10-18

Added

Large Documentation Support (40K+ Pages)

• Config splitting functionality for massive documentation sites
• Router/hub skill generation for intelligent query routing
• Checkpoint/resume feature for long scrapes
• Parallel scraping support for faster processing
• 4 split strategies: auto, category, router, size

New CLI Tools

• split_config.py - Split large configs into focused sub-skills
• generate_router.py - Generate router/hub skills
• package_multi.py - Package multiple skills at once

New MCP Tools

• split_config - Split large documentation via MCP
• generate_router - Generate router skills via MCP

Documentation

• New docs/LARGE_DOCUMENTATION.md guide
• Example config: godot-large-example.json (40K pages)

Changed

• MCP tool count: 6 → 8 tools
• Updated documentation for large docs workflow

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0.3.0 - 2025-10-15

Added

MCP Server Integration

• Complete MCP server implementation (mcp/server.py)
• 6 MCP tools for Claude Code integration:
  • list_configs
  • generate_config
  • validate_config
  • estimate_pages
  • scrape_docs
  • package_skill

Setup & Configuration

• Automated setup script (setup_mcp.sh)
• MCP configuration examples
• Comprehensive MCP setup guide (docs/MCP_SETUP.md)
• MCP testing guide (docs/TEST_MCP_IN_CLAUDE_CODE.md)

Testing

• 31 comprehensive unit tests for MCP server
• Integration tests via Claude Code MCP protocol
• 100% test pass rate

Documentation

• Complete MCP integration documentation
• Natural language usage examples
• Troubleshooting guides

Changed

• Restructured project as monorepo with CLI and MCP server
• Moved CLI tools to cli/ directory
• Added MCP server to mcp/ directory

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0.2.0 - 2025-10-10

Added

Testing & Quality

• Comprehensive test suite with 71 tests
• 100% test pass rate
• Test coverage for all major features
• Config validation tests

Optimization

• Page count estimator (estimate_pages.py)
• Framework config optimizations with start_urls
• Better URL pattern coverage
• Improved scraping efficiency

New Configs

• Kubernetes documentation config
• Tailwind CSS config
• Astro framework config

Changed

• Optimized all framework configs
• Improved categorization accuracy
• Enhanced error messages

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0.1.0 - 2025-10-05

Added

Initial Release

• Basic documentation scraper functionality
• Manual skill creation
• Framework configs (Godot, React, Vue, Django, FastAPI)
• Smart categorization system
• Code language detection
• Pattern extraction
• Local and API-based enhancement options
• Basic packaging functionality

Core Features

• BFS traversal for documentation scraping
• CSS selector-based content extraction
• Smart categorization with scoring
• Code block detection and formatting
• Caching system for scraped data
• Interactive mode for config creation

Documentation

• README with quick start guide
• Basic usage documentation
• Configuration file examples

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Release Links

• v1.2.0 - PDF Advanced Features
• v1.1.0 - Documentation Scraping Enhancements
• v1.0.0 - Production Release
• v0.4.0 - Large Documentation Support
• v0.3.0 - MCP Integration

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Version History Summary

Version	Date	Highlights
1.2.0	2025-10-23	📄 PDF advanced features: OCR, passwords, tables, 3x faster
1.1.0	2025-10-22	🌐 Unlimited scraping, parallel mode, new configs (Ansible, Laravel)
1.0.0	2025-10-19	🚀 Production release, auto-upload, 9 MCP tools
0.4.0	2025-10-18	📚 Large docs support (40K+ pages)
0.3.0	2025-10-15	🔌 MCP integration with Claude Code
0.2.0	2025-10-10	🧪 Testing & optimization
0.1.0	2025-10-05	🎬 Initial release

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