markpdfdown-desktop CLAUDE.md

A project guidance file for MarkPDFdown Desktop, an Electron app that converts PDFs and images into Markdown using visual recognition. It documents the development, testing, database, and packaging commands.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when developing the app, running unit or interface tests, generating its database client, or creating Windows, macOS, or Linux builds.
Why use it?
It provides the commands and project context needed to build, test, develop, and package the desktop app without having to discover them manually.

Instructions file

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/markpdfdown/markpdfdown-desktop/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MarkPDFdown/markpdfdown-desktop
Per session 1,196 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,196 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.01196 $0.01196
Opus 5 $0.00598 $0.00598
Sonnet 5 $0.00239 $0.00239
Haiku 4.5 $0.00120 $0.00120

Measured 2d ago against content hash 1e53aa4c8baf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

markpdfdown-desktop CLAUDE.md 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 2d 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.md · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

Project Overview

MarkPDFdown Desktop is an Electron application that converts PDF/images to Markdown using LLM visual recognition. Built with Electron 38 + React 18 + TypeScript + Vite (via electron-vite) + Prisma (SQLite) + Ant Design 5.

Commands

# Development
npm run dev                # Generate Prisma client + start dev server

# Build
npm run build              # Generate Prisma client + production build
npm run build:win          # Build Windows NSIS installer
npm run build:mac          # Build macOS DMG
npm run build:linux        # Build Linux AppImage

# Testing (Vitest)
npm test                   # Run all tests (watch mode)
npm run test:unit          # Unit tests only (main process + core, node env)
npm run test:renderer      # Component tests only (React, jsdom env)
npm run test:watch         # Watch mode
npm run test:coverage      # Coverage report

# Single test file
npx vitest run path/to/file.test.ts --config vitest.config.ts        # unit test
npx vitest run path/to/file.test.tsx --config vitest.config.renderer.ts  # renderer test

# Database
npm run generate           # Generate Prisma client
npm run migrate:dev        # Run migrations (dev)

# Code quality
npm run lint               # ESLint with auto-fix
npm run typecheck          # TypeScript type checking

Architecture

Three-process Electron structure

  • Main process (src/main/): Window management, IPC handler registration, app lifecycle
  • Preload (src/preload/): Secure bridge exposing window.api to renderer
  • Renderer (src/renderer/): React SPA with Ant Design, HashRouter routing

Core business logic (src/core/) — Clean Architecture

core/
├── domain/           # Interfaces only: ILLMClient, ISplitter, repositories
├── application/      # Business logic orchestration
│   ├── services/     # WorkerOrchestrator, ModelService, PresetProviderService
│   └── workers/      # WorkerBase (abstract), SplitterWorker, ConverterWorker, MergerWorker
├── infrastructure/   # External implementations
│   ├── db/           # Prisma schema, migrations, client
│   ├── adapters/
│   │   ├── llm/      # OpenAIClient, AnthropicClient, GeminiClient, OllamaClient, OpenAIResponsesClient
│   │   └── split/    # PDFSplitter, ImageSplitter, SplitterFactory
│   └── services/     # FileService
└── shared/events/    # EventBus for worker coordination

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 lines

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.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 113 lines · 1,196 tokens per session scan A 1e53aa4c8baf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

markpdfdown-desktop CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository MarkPDFdown/markpdfdown-desktop (58 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 1,196 tokens to every session, about $0.0060 per session on Opus 5. 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 2026-08-30.