Phase 1: Extract Footnotes
SkillDocs & knowledgePhase 1: Extract footnotes from DOCX with formatting annotations
Use Phase 1: Extract Footnotes in Claude, ChatGPT or Ahel Desktop
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Then ask your AI: use the Phase 1: Extract Footnotes skill
Details
Instructions available. Your AI can read the instructions. Execution depends on the setup they require.
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Add Ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by edwinhu/workflows in skills/bluebook-audit/skills/audit-extract/SKILL.md and read by Ahel’s review.
What this skill carries — grep references/ for any subject the names below miss:
!d=${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}; command -v skill-toc >/dev/null 2>&1 && exec skill-toc "$d"; s=$HOME/.claude/skills/plugin-utils/bin/skill-toc; [ -x "$s" ] && exec "$s" "$d"; echo "(skill-toc unavailable: references and scripts are NOT listed here — install the plugin-utils plugin, or start a new session so its bin/ reaches PATH)"
Parse the DOCX file and build structured data for all subsequent phases.
What This Phase Does
- Parse
word/footnotes.xmlvia lxml - Extract each footnote's runs with formatting flags (italic, small caps, bold)
- Parse
word/_rels/footnotes.xml.relsfor hyperlink URLs - Build citation registry (hereinafter definitions, author-to-first-cite mapping)
- Resolve cross-references (
supra note [_]placeholders) - Extract all URLs for archiving inventory
Script
uv run python3 "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../../../skills/bluebook-audit/scripts/extract_footnotes.py" --docx <path>
Output: scratch/footnotes_data.json
Gate: Exit Extract
Before proceeding to Check phase:
-
scratch/footnotes_data.jsonexists - Contains entries for ALL footnotes in the document (verify count)
- Each entry has
formatted_textfield with inline markup - Citation registry has hereinafter definitions
- URL inventory extracted
If footnote count doesn't match document: STOP. Investigate missing footnotes before proceeding.
Next Phase
Read ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../../../skills/bluebook-audit/skills/audit-check/SKILL.md and follow its instructions.
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 21
- Forks
- 4
- Last commit
- Oct 2026
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- Item type
- skill
- Key
audit-extract- Source
- github.com/edwinhu/workflows
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