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ljg-qa Idea Extractor

Turns an article, paper or book into a chain of sharp questions and structured answers

Stars
7,607
Licence
MIT
Files
3 files

What it does

Once installed, when you share an article, paper or book and ask for Q&A extraction, the agent reads it, finds the author's core reasoning, and rewrites it as a sequence of pointed questions (why this approach works, how it differs from alternatives, its costs and limits). Each answer is a short conclusion, a compact symbolic summary of the relationship, the reasoning step, and the conditions under which it fails. The output is a Markdown note saved to a notes folder, meant to let a reader retrace the author's logic rather than just read a summary.

Great for

  • Readers who want to deeply understand the argument of a dense article, paper or book
  • Note-takers who keep a Markdown or denote-style notes folder
  • Anyone who wants ideas as a logical chain instead of a summary or FAQ

Skip it if

  • Study quizzes, FAQs or glossaries: the skill explicitly rejects these formats, so it will not fit exam prep or definition lists
  • Quick summaries: the output is longer and more demanding than a simple recap
  • Sources you cannot legally or privately send to an agent, since the content is processed by the agent

Try asking

  • “/ljg-qa https://example.com/article”
  • “/ljg-qa ~/Downloads/paper.pdf”
  • “Turn this passage into Q-A pairs: [paste text]”
  • “问答:请把这篇文章的核心观点抽成问答链”
Step-by-step guide: how to use ljg-qa Idea ExtractorInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 3 original files, the MIT licence and an attribution note.

    ljg-qa.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip ljg-qa.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip ljg-qa.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 3

    Ask for the task

    No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.

Get better results

  • Give it a complete article or a specific PDF page range so the question chain has enough material to order by argument dependency
  • Review the generated answers against the source, since the symbolic summaries can oversimplify nuanced claims
  • Check the notes folder path before running so output lands where you expect

What's inside

  • References/QuestionDesign.md
  • SKILL.md
  • Workflows/Extract.md

Redistributed unmodified from lijigang/ljg-skills under the MIT licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.