anything-to-md

anything-to-md is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from 1596941391qq/anything-to-md. It costs 265 tokens per session (2,049 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of anything-to-md, MIT.

A tool for converting many file types into clean Markdown that language models can process. It supports documents, spreadsheets, presentations, images with OCR, audio, video, and some web URLs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to convert documents or folders, extract text from images, transcribe audio or video, or obtain transcripts from supported YouTube URLs.
Why use it?
It removes the need to handle each source format separately when preparing files for AI analysis.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to convert documents or folders, extract text from images, transcribe audio or video, or obtain transcripts from supported YouTube URLs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/1596941391qq/anything-to-md/skill
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.

Any agent
npx skills add 1596941391qq/anything-to-md --skill skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/1596941391qq/anything-to-md

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 265 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,049 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00265 $0.02049
Opus 5 $0.00133 $0.01025
Sonnet 5 $0.00053 $0.00410
Haiku 4.5 $0.00026 $0.00205

Measured 10d ago against content hash a3476135a8f4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

anything-to-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 10d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to anything-to-md — 600 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

src/skill/SKILL.md · 301 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 301 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Anything-to-MD Skill

Convert any file to clean, LLM-ready Markdown. Supports 50+ file formats including documents, images (OCR), audio/video, and YouTube URLs.

Quick Start

# Convert single file
anything-to-md file document.pdf -o ./output

# Convert entire directory
anything-to-md dir ./my-docs ./my-mds --report

# Extract YouTube transcript
anything-to-md youtube "https://youtube.com/watch?v=xxx"

Capabilities

File Types Supported

Category Formats
Documents PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, ODT, ODS, ODP
Web HTML, HTM, XHTML
eBooks EPUB, MOBI
Data CSV, TSV, JSON, XML
Images PNG, JPG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, WEBP (with OCR)
Audio MP3, WAV, M4A, FLAC, OGG, AAC
Video MP4, MKV, AVI, MOV, WEBM
URLs YouTube, Wikipedia, RSS feeds

Video Intelligent Routing (NEW)

Videos are processed through a smart 4-phase pipeline:

PROBE → DECIDE → EXTRACT → FUSE

Phase 1: PROBE (< 5 seconds)

  • ffprobe: Detect embedded subtitle tracks, audio streams
  • Sidecar detection: Check for .srt/.vtt files
  • Sample frame OCR: Extract 5 frames, run quick OCR to detect on-screen text

Phase 2: DECIDE - Choose optimal strategy

Video Type Strategy Description
Has embedded subtitles embedded_subtitle Extract with ffmpeg, parse SRT
Has sidecar .srt/.vtt sidecar_subtitle Parse external subtitle file
Audio + on-screen text hybrid faster-whisper + frame OCR
Pure audio (podcast) audio_transcribe faster-whisper transcription
PPT recording / tutorial visual_ocr Scene detection + keyframe OCR
Unknown / mixed full_pipeline Run all extraction methods

Phase 3: EXTRACT

  • Subtitles: ffmpeg extraction → SRT parsing
  • Audio: faster-whisper (4x faster than OpenAI Whisper)
  • Frames: PySceneDetect for scene changes + perceptual hash deduplication
  • OCR: RapidOCR (PaddleOCR models + ONNX runtime)

Read the full file on GitHub · 301 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. 10d ago First seen · 301 lines · 265 tokens per session scan A a3476135a8f4

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anything-to-md is a skill published in the GitHub repository 1596941391qq/anything-to-md (18 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 265 tokens to every session and 2,049 once invoked, about $0.0013 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to anything-to-md, differing in 600 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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