Lynx PDF Studio for VS Code

Agentic, git-native PDF automation. You don't click a PDF editor — you edit an OpenPDF Workflow (OPW) file, and a deterministic engine renders the PDF. The workflow is the source of truth; the PDF is a build artifact; git is your undo stack.

# workflow.opw.yaml
version: 1
kind: pdf
inputs:
  - input/contract.pdf
  - input/appendix.pdf
operations:
  - merge: {}
  - delete_pages: { pages: [10, 11] }
  - watermark: { text: INTERNAL, opacity: 0.15 }
  - set_metadata: { title: Contract, author: Legal }
output:
  file: output/contract_final.pdf

What you get

• OPW workflow files — human-readable YAML that compiles to a PDF via a deterministic pipeline: parse → validate → optimize → plan → render.
• Live rendering — save the .opw.yaml and the output PDF re-renders; open the built-in pdf.js preview alongside.
• Sidebar — workflows, outputs, and a color-coded Dependencies view (pdf-lib is bundled and always green; PyMuPDF / pikepdf / qpdf / Ghostscript are optional and light up when installed).
• Agent-native — a local MCP server exposes deterministic OPW helpers (opw_validate, opw_compile, opw_optimize, opw_diff, opw_scaffold, opw_operations) so any MCP-capable coding agent edits the workflow safely. A generated CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md teaches the agent your project.

Getting started

1. PDF Studio: Initialize Project — seeds workflow.opw.yaml + sample inputs.
2. Edit the workflow (or ask your agent to).
3. PDF Studio: Render Workflow (▶ in the sidebar) — writes output/*.pdf.
4. PDF Studio: Open Preview — see the result.

Execution backends

The bundled pdf-lib backend runs merge, split, delete/rotate/reorder pages, watermark, and metadata with zero external dependencies. Advanced operations (OCR, true redaction, deep compression, linearization) use an optional Python backend (PyMuPDF / pikepdf / qpdf / Ghostscript) that the extension auto-detects — until then, opw_compile reports those operations as unsatisfied.

Commands

Initialize Project · New Workflow · Render Workflow · Validate Workflow · Optimize Workflow · Show Execution Plan · Open Preview · Check Dependencies · Generate Agent Map.

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License

Proprietary — Copyright © 2026 Lynx DI. All rights reserved. See LICENSE. Bundled third-party components remain under their own licenses (see NOTICE).