A Cowork plugin that builds hands-on training modules from vendor PDFs. Convert docs once, generate as many lab exercises as you need — each grounded in the actual product documentation.

Built with AI. I'm a presales engineer, not a developer. LabSmith was designed, built, and documented with heavy assistance from Claude (Anthropic). The architecture decisions are mine, the domain expertise is mine, but the Python, the shell scripts, and a good chunk of the problem-solving happened through conversation with an AI. If I can build this, you can too.

git clone https://github.com/mikepesh/labsmith.git ~/Documents/labsmith
cd ~/Documents/labsmith
bash labsmith.sh

The wizard walks through prerequisites (Python, git, PDF stack) and the rest of the pipeline — same checks as setup.sh, which lives on for an optional install-and-verify-only pass if you prefer that first.

Experimental: A Textual terminal UI lives under tui/ for trying out menu-driven convert/chunk/query. It is not the default workflow. From the repo root: bash scripts/labsmith-tui.sh (installs textual into marker/venv/ on first run).

Then install labsmith.plugin in Claude Desktop.

Full setup, usage, and best practices: USER-GUIDE.md

Try it out, break it, tell me what sucks: Open an issue