Algo Nlp Summarization Agent Skill
Implement text summarization using extractive and abstractive approaches. Use this skill when the user needs to condense long documents, build an automatic summarization pipeline, or compare summarization strategies — even if they say 'summarize this document', 'TLDR', or 'key points extraction'.
Install
one command, takes just this skill from the repositorynpx skills add https://github.com/asgard-ai-platform/skills --skill algo-nlp-summarizationWhat comes with it
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14 sections, as written by the authorText Summarization
Overview
Text summarization condenses documents while preserving key information. Extractive: selects and concatenates important sentences from the original. Abstractive: generates new text that paraphrases the content. Extractive is simpler and more faithful; abstractive is more fluent but may hallucinate.
When to Use
Trigger conditions:
- Condensing long documents, reports, or article collections
- Building automated summary pipelines for content curation
- Comparing extractive vs abstractive approaches for a use case
When NOT to use:
- When full document understanding is needed (summarization loses detail)
- For structured data extraction (use NER or information extraction)
Algorithm
IRON LAW: Abstractive Summarization Can HALLUCINATE
Abstractive models may generate fluent text containing facts NOT in
the source. Always verify key claims in abstractive summaries against
the original document. For high-stakes use cases (legal, medical),
prefer extractive or use abstractive with factual consistency checking.
Phase 1: Input Validation
Determine: input length, target summary length (ratio or word count), single-doc vs multi-doc, domain.
Gate: Input text available, target length defined.
Phase 2: Core Algorithm
Extractive (TextRank/LexRank):
- Split document into sentences
- Build similarity graph (sentence nodes, cosine similarity edges)
- Run PageRank on sentence graph
- Select top-k sentences by rank, reorder by original position
Abstractive (transformer-based):
- Use pre-trained model (BART, T5, Pegasus)
- Encode input document (handle length limits with chunking if needed)
- Generate summary with beam search
- Post-process: check for repetition, factual consistency
Phase 3: Verification
Evaluate: ROUGE scores (ROUGE-1, ROUGE-2, ROUGE-L) against reference summaries. Manual check for factual accuracy and coherence.
Gate: ROUGE scores reasonable for domain, no hallucinations in spot-check.
Phase 4: Output
Return summary with metadata.
Output Format
{
"summary": "The company reported Q4 revenue of...",
"method": "extractive_textrank",
"metadata": {"input_words": 2000, "summary_words": 200, "compression_ratio": 0.10, "sentences_selected": 5}
}
Examples
Sample I/O
Input: 2000-word news article about quarterly earnings
Expected: 200-word summary covering: revenue, profit, guidance, key highlights. Extractive: 5-6 selected sentences. Abstractive: coherent paragraph.
Edge Cases
| Input | Expected | Why |
|-------|----------|-----|
| Very short input (< 100 words) | Return as-is or minimal trimming | Already concise |
| Multiple contradicting sections | Summary may miss nuance | Summarization favors dominant theme |
| Technical jargon | Extractive preserves, abstractive may simplify | Domain expertise affects quality |
Gotchas
- ROUGE ≠ quality: ROUGE measures n-gram overlap with references. A high-ROUGE summary can be incoherent, and a low-ROUGE summary can be excellent with different word choices.
- Input length limits: Transformer models have max token limits (512-4096). Long documents need chunking strategies (chunk-then-summarize or hierarchical summarization).
- Repetition: Abstractive models sometimes repeat phrases. Use repetition penalty during generation (no_repeat_ngram_size).
- Position bias: In news text, important information is front-loaded (inverted pyramid). Simple "take first N sentences" is a strong extractive baseline.
- Multi-document summarization: Summarizing multiple related documents requires handling redundancy and contradiction across sources.
References
- For TextRank/LexRank implementation details, see
references/graph-based-extraction.md - For factual consistency checking, see
references/factual-consistency.md
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