{"slug": "i-built-deepread-an-evidence-first-reading-skill-for-articles-books-and-pdfs", "title": "I Built DeepRead: An Evidence-First Reading Skill for Articles, Books, and PDFs", "summary": "A developer has released DeepRead, an open-source tool that transforms articles, books, and PDFs into structured reports centered on claims, evidence, data, and relationships. The tool links important claims to supporting evidence and source locations, explicitly noting when evidence is absent, and can compare multiple documents to identify agreements and conflicts. DeepRead is MIT-licensed and available on GitHub.", "body_md": "I recently built an open-source project called **DeepRead** to solve a problem I kept seeing with AI reading tools.\n\nMost tools can summarize a document quickly, but they often blur the line between the author's actual claims, the evidence provided by the source, and the model's own inferences. With long documents, source locations and the context around numerical claims can also disappear.\n\nDeepRead turns articles, books, PDFs, and document sets into structured reports organized around **claims, evidence, data, and relationships**. Important claims are linked to supporting evidence and source locations. If the source does not provide evidence, the report says so instead of filling the gap.\n\n`quick`\n\n`deep`\n\n`map`\n\n`feynman`\n\n`book`\n\nDeepRead can also compare 2–10 documents and identify agreements, conflicts, and complementary evidence.\n\nThe portable skill has no additional runtime dependencies:\n\n```\nnpx skills@latest add xiehuan123/dsh-deepread\n```\n\nExample prompt:\n\n```\nDeep-read architecture.pdf in knowledge-map mode.\nFor every important claim, show the supporting evidence and page location.\n```\n\nThe full plugin includes a reading panel, PDF extraction, background jobs, live progress, batch comparison, cost estimates, and Markdown, HTML, or XMind-compatible export.\n\n```\ndsh plugin --profile web add dsh-deepread\n```\n\nGitHub:\n\n[https://github.com/xiehuan123/dsh-deepread](https://github.com/xiehuan123/dsh-deepread)\n\nv0.5.4 Release:\n\n[https://github.com/xiehuan123/dsh-deepread/releases/tag/v0.5.4](https://github.com/xiehuan123/dsh-deepread/releases/tag/v0.5.4)\n\nThe repository contains three real output examples rather than hand-written mockups. DeepRead has already been included in several DeepSeek Harness and DSH community collections. Its GitHub Awesome Copilot submission has also passed the automated specification, lint, installation, and version checks and is waiting for maintainer review.\n\nThe project is MIT licensed. I would especially like feedback on one question:\n\nIs explicit claim-to-evidence tracing useful in your reading workflow, or does it make the report too heavy?\n\nIssues and pull requests are welcome.\n\nSuggested DEV tags: `showdev`\n\n, `opensource`\n\n, `ai`\n\n, `productivity`\n\nSuggested Show HN title: `Show HN: DeepRead – Evidence-first reading for books, articles, and PDFs`", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-built-deepread-an-evidence-first-reading-skill-for-articles-books-and-pdfs", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/_312a710fe7837e8fcea442/i-built-deepread-an-evidence-first-reading-skill-for-articles-books-and-pdfs-45e8", "published_at": "2026-08-16 16:31:18+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-16 16:42:07.112955+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-tools", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["DeepRead", "GitHub", "DeepSeek Harness", "DSH", "Awesome Copilot"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-built-deepread-an-evidence-first-reading-skill-for-articles-books-and-pdfs", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-built-deepread-an-evidence-first-reading-skill-for-articles-books-and-pdfs.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-built-deepread-an-evidence-first-reading-skill-for-articles-books-and-pdfs.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-built-deepread-an-evidence-first-reading-skill-for-articles-books-and-pdfs.jsonld"}}