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Document Review Agent Skill

Read attached or linked business files and answer from the contents, including scans that require OCR.

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What is the Document Review Agent Skill?

The Document Review Agent Skill provides a disciplined way to inspect PDFs, Word documents, presentations, spreadsheets, scans, and page images. It keeps the response grounded in the supplied material, separates extracted content from interpretation, and highlights missing or unreadable evidence instead of filling gaps from general model knowledge.

Product behaviour reviewed against VDF AI Cloud · 2026-09-04
At a glance

When to use Document Review

Match the Skill to the job, provide the required context, and decide what a useful output must contain before the agent begins.

Best for

  • Contract and policy review
  • Report and presentation analysis
  • Scanned document questions

Inputs

  • Attached or linked file
  • Review question or criteria
  • Optional output format

Outputs

  • Grounded findings
  • Quoted or located evidence
  • Unreadable or missing sections
Repeatable workflow

How the Document Review procedure works

The Skill supplies structured judgement and sequencing. VDF AI supplies the separately governed capabilities used during each step.

01

Open

Choose the appropriate parser and use OCR when the source is an image or scan.

02

Map

Identify document structure, relevant sections, tables, and material that could not be extracted reliably.

03

Review

Answer against the file contents, keeping observations separate from recommendations or domain judgement.

04

Report

Return the requested summary or analysis with evidence locations and explicit extraction limitations.

Tool boundary

Capabilities the procedure can use

Document Review can call these capabilities only when they are assigned to the agent and authorised for the user. The Skill itself never expands access.

Document ParserConfigured capabilityOCR Text ExtractionView public tool
Practical example

A representative document review request

Example request

“Review this supplier agreement and list renewal terms, termination rights, liability caps, and anything missing.”

Expected outcome

A structured findings table tied to document sections, followed by gaps that require legal judgement.

How the capability model fits together

A procedure between the agent and its tools

Document Review gives the agent a repeatable method. Tool permissions stay separate, and the capability can run inside a governed multi-agent Network.

  1. 1
    Agent The governed worker Identity, model, instructions, access, and runtime policy.
  2. 2
    Skill Document Review The procedure and supporting context for specialised work.
  3. 3
    Tool Permitted capabilities Search, parse, generate, analyse, or write under access control.
  4. 4
    Network Orchestrated execution Model-driven nodes compose Skills into observable workflows.
  5. 5
    Outcome Reviewable work Evidence, files, decisions, or approved external actions.
Where it fits

Agents, use cases, and Network patterns

Use these relationships as starting points, then narrow the agent’s access and workflow to the actual business context.

Network patterns

  • Parse then route for specialist review
  • Document evidence feeding a decision agent
  • Review followed by a generated brief
Governance and limitations

What remains under platform and human control

A reliable Agent Skill states its boundaries as clearly as its capabilities, especially when the workflow can influence decisions or external systems.

Operational controls

  • Answers stay grounded in the supplied file
  • Unreadable content is called out
  • Sensitive files can remain in controlled deployment

Known boundaries

  • Extraction quality depends on the source file
  • The workflow does not replace legal or regulated professional review
  • It should not infer text that OCR cannot recover
FAQ

Questions about Document Review

What file types can the Document Review skill handle?

The reviewed workflow covers PDFs, Word documents, presentations, spreadsheets, scans, and photographs of pages when the matching parsing tools are available.

Will it answer from outside the document?

The skill is designed to answer from the supplied material and to label any separate interpretation. It should report missing evidence rather than silently filling the gap.

Does it replace a lawyer or domain specialist?

No. It accelerates extraction and structured review, while consequential legal, financial, medical, or regulatory conclusions remain with qualified people.

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