# Recipe Import

> Parse and import recipes from unstructured text, copied content, or informal descriptions into the standard markdown format. Use when the user pastes recipe text, shares a recipe, asks to "import a recipe", "save this recipe", "convert this recipe", or provides unstructured cooking instructions.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-infosecb-personal-claude-plugins-recipe-import`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [infosecB](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/infosecb)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Content & Media](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/content-and-media)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [infosecB](https://github.com/infosecB)
- **Source:** https://github.com/infosecB/personal-claude-plugins/tree/main/recipe_manager/skills/recipe-import
- **Website:** https://infosecb.github.io/personal-claude-plugins/

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-infosecb-personal-claude-plugins-recipe-import
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Recipe Import

Convert unstructured recipe text into the standard recipe markdown format.

## Import Process

1. **Receive input**: The user provides recipe content as pasted text, a dictated recipe, website content, or an informal family recipe.

2. **Extract structured data**:
   - **Title**: Look for a prominent name or heading
   - **Ingredients**: Lines with quantities, units, food items
   - **Instructions**: Numbered or sequential steps
   - **Metadata**: Servings, prep/cook time, cuisine hints

3. **Infer missing metadata** using context clues:
   - Cuisine: from ingredient combinations and techniques
   - Difficulty: from technique complexity
   - Tags: from ingredients and method
   - Dietary: from ingredient list (see CLAUDE.md dietary rules)
   - Times: estimate if not stated

4. **Normalize ingredients** to: `- QUANTITY UNIT INGREDIENT, PREP_NOTES`
   - Convert informal measurements ("a handful of") to approximate standard units
   - Separate prep notes from ingredient names

5. **Present the formatted recipe** to the user for review before saving.

6. **Save** to `./recipes/` using kebab-case filename from title.

Reference: @${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/recipe-import/references/import-examples.md

## Handling Ambiguity

- If title is unclear, ask the user.
- If servings aren't mentioned, default to 4 and note the assumption.
- If ingredients are vague ("some oil"), use reasonable defaults ("2 tbsp oil").
- Always show parsed result for confirmation before writing.

## Batch Import

For multiple recipes at once, process each separately and confirm each before saving. For large batches, the recipe-parser agent can handle autonomous processing.

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [infosecB](https://github.com/infosecB)
- **Source:** [infosecB/personal-claude-plugins](https://github.com/infosecB/personal-claude-plugins)
- **License:** MIT
- **Homepage:** https://infosecb.github.io/personal-claude-plugins/

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-infosecb-personal-claude-plugins-recipe-import
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/infosecb
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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