# venice-augment

This skill connects Venice API endpoints for document text extraction, web-page retrieval as Markdown, and search. Use it when an agent pipeline needs those inputs.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 160
- Author: veniceai
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/veniceai/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/venice-augment/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/venice-augment

## What it does

The skill covers three Venice endpoints: `/augment/text-parser` extracts text from documents and code files, `/augment/scrape` fetches a URL and returns Markdown, and `/augment/search` returns web results. Requests need a Bearer API key or an x402 wallet. Each successful call costs $0.01.

The parser accepts files up to 25 MB, but does not OCR scanned PDFs. Scrape rejects X, Reddit, and private or internal addresses. Scrape and search have a limit of 20 requests per minute per user. All three endpoints are marked experimental, so request and response formats may change.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add veniceai/skills --skill venice-augment -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/venice-augment/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/venice-augment/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add veniceai/skills --skill venice-augment -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/venice-augment/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add veniceai/skills --skill venice-augment -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/venice-augment/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install veniceai/skills venice-augment
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/venice-augment/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add veniceai/skills --skill venice-augment -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/veniceai/skills --path skills/venice-augment
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/venice-augment/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add veniceai/skills --skill venice-augment -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/veniceai/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/venice-augment/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- extract text from a PDF, EPUB, or DOCX
- fetch a web page as Markdown
- search the web for pages on a topic
- feed extracted file text into an agent pipeline

## Example prompts
- Extract the text from `contract.pdf` using Venice.
- Fetch this URL as Markdown with Venice scrape.
- Search the web for pages on this topic using Venice search.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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name: venice-augment
description: Venice augmentation endpoints for agent pipelines. Covers POST /augment/text-parser (extract text from PDF/EPUB/DOCX/PPTX/XLSX/XLS, plain text and source code; multipart, up to 25MB; JSON or plain-text response), POST /augment/scrape (fetch a URL and return markdown; blocks X/Reddit and private/internal URLs), and POST /augment/search (Brave ZDR or anonymized Google; structured title/url/content/date results, limit up to 20 but effectively capped at 10 Brave / 5 Google). $0.01 per successful call, 20 req/min on scrape and search, privacy, and error shapes.
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# Venice Augment (text parse / scrape / search)

Three lightweight helpers for agent pipelines that need document text, web pages, or search results without running your own parser, crawler, or search account. All three are marked **experimental** in the docs — request/response shapes may change.

| Endpoint | Input | Output | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| `POST /augment/text-parser` | `multipart/form-data` `file` (≤ 25 MB) | `{ text, tokens }` JSON, or `text/plain` | $0.01 / successful call |
| `POST /augment/scrape` | `{ url }` | `{ url, content, format: "markdown" }` | $0.01 / successful call |
| `POST /augment/search` | `{ query, limit?, search_provider? }` | `{ query, results: [{ title, url, content, date }] }` | $0.01 / successful call |

All three accept a **Bearer API key** or an **x402 wallet** (`SIGN-IN-WITH-X` header) — see [`venice-auth`](../venice-auth/SKILL.md). The balance is checked before the work runs; the charge is applied only after a `200` response. (The OpenAPI `x-payment-info` advertises a generic dynamic range of `$0.001–$10.00`; the actual price sheet charge is $0.01.)

## `POST /augment/text-parser` — extract text from documents

### Request

Always `multipart/form-data`:

| Field | Notes |
|---|---|
| `file` | Required. Max **25 MB** (larger → `413`). |
| `response_format` | `json` (default) or `text`. |

Accepted file types (matched by MIME type, or by filename extension when the MIME type isn't recognized, e.g. `application/octet-stream`):

- **Structured documents:** PDF, EPUB, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, XLS. Legacy `.doc` and `.ppt` are **not** accepted.
- **Text / data:** any `text/*` MIME, plus Markdown, CSV/TSV, JSON/JSONL, YAML, TOML, XML, HTML, RTF, LaTeX, logs, etc.
- **Source code:** `.py`, `.ts`, `.js`, `.go`, `.rs`, `.c`, `.cpp`, `.java`, `.sh`, `.ps1`, `.sql`, … plus extensionless `Dockerfile` / `Makefile` (~140 text/data/code extensions are recognized in total).

Anything else → `400 Unsupported file type`.

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/augment/text-parser \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VENICE_API_KEY" \
  -F "file=@./contract.pdf" \
  -F "response_format=json"
```

### Response

`response_format=json`:

```json
{
  "text": "…extracted text…",
  "tokens": 3821
}
```

`response_format=text` — the raw extracted text as the body (`Content-Type: text/plain`).

### Tips

- DOCX, PPTX, XLSX/XLS and EPUB come back as **markdown** (spreadsheets as markdown tables). PDFs and text files come back as plain text.
- `tokens` is a character-based estimate (`ceil(chars / 3.2)`), not a model tokenizer count — use it for rough budgeting of a downstream chat request.
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