transform

transform is a cursor rule for Cursor from Unstructured-IO/unstructured-mcp-integrations. It costs 272 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A document-conversion tool that turns PDFs, spreadsheets, scans, emails, images, and more than 60 other file types into structured text or JSON.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to read, summarize, extract, or structure the contents of files. It can use OCR, which reads text from images and scans.
Why use it?
It removes the need to manually parse messy files, especially scanned documents, tables, and files with complex layouts.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: a Cursor rule (.mdc).

Good fit Use it to read, summarize, extract, or structure the contents of files. It can use OCR, which reads text from images and scans.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/unstructured-io/unstructured-mcp-integrations/transform
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured-mcp-integrations

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 272 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 272 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00272 $0.00272
Opus 5.5 $0.00109 $0.00109
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00054 $0.00054
Haiku 4.5 $0.00027 $0.00027

Measured 1mo ago against content hash d5b705ddcae9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

transform 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 1mo 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.

transform/cursor/rules/transform.mdc · 14 lines

What it actually says

unstructured-transform: When the user shares or references a document file — a PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, HTML, EML, image, or scan — and wants its contents read, summarized, extracted, or turned into structured data, use the connected transform MCP server rather than trying to read the raw bytes yourself.

Workflow:

  • If the file is reachable at a public https:// URL, pass that URL straight to the transform job — no upload needed.
  • If it is a local path or lives in the workspace, request an upload URL first, PUT the bytes to it, then start the job with the returned file reference.
  • Start the transform job (Markdown output is the best default for reasoning over the content; use JSON when the user needs element/layout structure), poll until it finishes, then read back the structured result.

Prefer this over manual parsing for anything scanned, image-based, or table-heavy — the server handles OCR, layout, tables, chunking, and embeddings across 60+ formats. Never paste an API key into chat; the server signs in via OAuth on first use.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 14 lines · 272 tokens per session scan A d5b705ddcae9

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transform is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository Unstructured-IO/unstructured-mcp-integrations (1 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 272 tokens to every session, about $0.0011 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-31.