A command that converts PDF files into Markdown files, which are plain-text documents with simple formatting that coding tools can read. It can process one PDF or every PDF in a directory.

Use it to convert research reports, slide decks, policy documents, or other PDFs and then inspect their Markdown output.

It makes PDF content easier to read and reference in a coding-assistant conversation without manually copying the document.

How motorway-sandbox/product-os configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to motorway-sandbox/product-os. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/motorway-sandbox/product-os/main/.claude/commands/convert-pdf.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/motorway-sandbox/product-os

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/motorway-sandbox/product-os/convert-pdf/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/motorway-sandbox/product-os/convert-pdf)

Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.

When invoked 276 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00000	$0.00276
Opus 5.5	$0.00000	$0.00110
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00000	$0.00055
Haiku 4.5	$0.00000	$0.00028

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 735958ce21d5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

convert-pdf scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/commands/convert-pdf.md · 31 lines

What it actually says

Convert PDF to Markdown

Convert a PDF document to markdown so it can be read and referenced in Claude Code conversations. This is useful when you have a PDF (research report, deck, policy doc) that you want to work with.

Instructions

The user will provide a file path as $ARGUMENTS. If no path is provided, ask the user for the path to the PDF file.
Run the conversion script:
```
python3 scripts/pdf_to_markdown.py <filepath>
```
- If the path is a single PDF, it will create a .md file alongside the original
- If the path is a directory, it will convert all PDFs in that directory
If the script fails with a missing dependency error, install it first:
```
pip install pymupdf
```
After conversion, read the generated markdown file and confirm to the user:
- Which file(s) were converted
- Where the output markdown file(s) are located
- A brief summary of the content (first few lines)
Ask the user what they'd like to do with the converted content.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

2mo ago First seen · 31 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 735958ce21d5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

convert-pdf is a command published in the GitHub repository motorway-sandbox/product-os (11 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 276 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-04.

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product-os: Command for Claude Code