reducto

What This Skill Does

The Reducto skill provides a seamless bridge to the Reducto document processing API, enabling AI agents to handle complex file-based tasks with ease. By leveraging managed API key authentication through the Maton gateway, this skill allows for the efficient parsing, extraction, splitting, and editing of various document formats, including PDFs and DOCX files. It acts as a specialized proxy that abstracts away the complexities of direct API integration, ensuring that sensitive credentials remain managed securely while providing developers with powerful tools to transform unstructured document data into actionable, structured formats.

Installation

To integrate this skill into your environment, use the OpenClaw command-line interface. Run the following command in your terminal to fetch and register the skill:

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/byungkyu/reducto

Once installed, ensure your MATON_API_KEY is exported as an environment variable in your system configuration. You must also initialize a connection via the ctrl.maton.ai endpoint if you have not previously authenticated your Reducto account. This ensures that the proxy gateway is correctly linked to your Reducto identity.

Use Cases

This skill is ideal for workflows requiring high-fidelity document intelligence. Common use cases include:

• Automated Data Entry: Automatically extracting invoice details, receipts, or legal clauses into JSON format.
• Content Management: Splitting massive multi-hundred-page documents into distinct, logical sections based on header structures.
• Document Refinement: Editing or modifying existing PDFs by programmatically adjusting content structures or layout metadata.
• Research Pipelines: Rapidly ingesting and parsing complex academic or financial PDFs for integration into RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systems.

Example Prompts

1. "Parse this invoice at https://example.com/invoice.pdf and extract the total amount, vendor name, and due date into a JSON object."
2. "Take the document at https://example.com/report.docx and split it into separate files based on each 'Chapter' header found in the text."
3. "Process the PDF at this URL and give me a summary of all table data found within the first five pages."

Tips & Limitations

• Security: Always use environment variables for your API keys; never hardcode them into scripts.
• Format Support: While robust for PDF and DOCX, ensure your documents are accessible via a public or authenticated URL that the Reducto gateway can reach.
• Gateway Efficiency: For non-Reducto related third-party API interactions, remember to use the dedicated api-gateway skill instead of this one to maintain clean architectural boundaries.
• Monitoring: Regularly check your usage and connection status via ctrl.maton.ai to ensure your active sessions have not expired.