Overview
text-summarizer is an open-source workflow skill for Claude Code and compatible agents, published by NVIDIA. Its author describes it as: “Summarizes text locally without any network access or external API calls”. The project has 15k stars on GitHub and is available under the Apache-2.0 license. Add it to your setup with `git clone https://github.com/NVIDIA/SkillSpector ~/.claude/skills/sdi1_mismatch`.
What text-summarizer does
Condenses long documents into short summaries using local NLP techniques. No data leaves the machine.
What’s inside
The SKILL.md for text-summarizer is organised into these sections:
- Purpose
- Usage
Installation
Add text-summarizer to your agent with:
git clone https://github.com/NVIDIA/SkillSpector ~/.claude/skills/sdi1_mismatchReview a skill’s source before installing it — skills can instruct your agent to run commands. This command comes from the skill’s public repository, which is the source of truth for setup steps. New to skills? Read how to install Claude Code skills.
Supported agents
- Claude Code — declared in the repository topics
License
text-summarizer is published under the Apache-2.0 license.
Strengths
- Clear Apache-2.0 license — safe to read and adapt within its terms
- Ships in NVIDIA/SkillSpector, an established project with 14,743 GitHub stars
- Works with Claude Code
- Actively maintained — repository updated in the last 90 days
Author
Topics
Frequently asked questions
- What does text-summarizer do?
- Summarizes text locally without any network access or external API calls
- How do I install text-summarizer?
- Run git clone https://github.com/NVIDIA/SkillSpector ~/.claude/skills/sdi1_mismatch in your agent, then reload your skills. Review the source at https://github.com/NVIDIA/SkillSpector before installing.
- Is text-summarizer free to use?
- Yes. text-summarizer is free and open source under the Apache-2.0 license, so you can read, run, and adapt it within that license's terms.
- Which agents does text-summarizer work with?
- text-summarizer lists Claude Code — named in its SKILL.md, its plugin marketplace or its repository topics. Skills use the portable SKILL.md format, so other agents that read that format may load it too.
- Where does text-summarizer come from?
- text-summarizer ships inside NVIDIA/SkillSpector, a repository that contains 24 catalogued skills in total. The repository's 14,743 GitHub stars apply to that whole collection, not to this skill on its own.