markdown.summarize

markdown.summarize is a skill for Claude Code from causify-ai/helpers. It costs 12 tokens per session (915 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A Markdown summarizer that shortens a file or text while keeping its headings and turning content into bullet points.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for creating shorter notes, previews, or summaries of Markdown files.
Why use it?
It helps you reduce long Markdown documents without losing their section structure. You can set a target word count or a fraction of the original length.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter; reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit It is for creating shorter notes, previews, or summaries of Markdown files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/causify-ai/helpers/markdown.summarize
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 causify-ai/helpers --skill markdown.summarize
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/causify-ai/helpers

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 12 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 915 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 3
    Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.
    Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00012 $0.00915
Opus 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00366
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00002 $0.00183
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00092

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 8959bce4ed05, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

markdown.summarize 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.

.claude/skills/markdown.summarize/SKILL.md · 118 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 118 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Interface Specification

Inputs

Parameter Type Required Description
<INPUT> file path or text Yes Markdown file or text chunk to summarize
<NUM_WORDS> integer No* Target output word count
<FRACTION> float (0-1) No* Alternative to <NUM_WORDS>: fraction of original size
<MAX_HEADER_LEV> integer No Max header level to preserve (default: preserve all levels)
<TAG> string No Tag for output filename (default: derived from input)
  • Exactly one of <NUM_WORDS> or <FRACTION> must be specified.

Outputs

Item Format Description
Console output Text Header structure preview + summary + statistics
Output file Markdown explanation.<tag>.md (overwrites if exists)
Word count Integer Original and target word counts printed to console

Workflow

Parse Input

  • Read file from <INPUT> path
  • Extract headers using markdown syntax (# ## ### etc.)

Determine Header Strategy

Case A: Input has header structure

  • Extract all headers from the document
  • Print structure to console

Case B: Input is plain text (no headers)

  • Skip header extraction
  • Proceed directly to summarization

Apply Header Level Filter

If <MAX_HEADER_LEV> not specified:

  • Preserve all header levels from original
  • Prefix headers with chapter numbers (e.g., # 1. Title, ## 1.1. Subtitle)

If <MAX_HEADER_LEV> specified:

  • Keep only headers with level <= <MAX_HEADER_LEV>
  • Summarize/collapse all deeper sections into bullet points
  • Example: <MAX_HEADER_LEV> = 1 results in only H1 headers kept, all H2+ become bullets

Calculate Target Length

  • Count original word count as <ORIG_NUM_WORDS>
  • If <FRACTION> given: <TARGET_WORDS> = <ORIG_NUM_WORDS> x <FRACTION>
  • If <NUM_WORDS> given: <TARGET_WORDS> = <NUM_WORDS>

Summarize Content

  • Convert to nested bullet points
  • Follow rules from:
    • .claude/skills/markdown.rules.md
    • .claude/skills/text.rules.md
  • Constraints:
    • Convert all mathematical formulas to LaTeX format
    • Wrap text at 80 columns
    • Target <TARGET_WORDS> word count (within 10% tolerance)
    • Preserve key concepts and important details

Read the full file on GitHub · 118 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. 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines · -1 tokens per session 8959bce4ed05
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 117 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A 5eae1b0d20f7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

markdown.summarize is a skill published in the GitHub repository causify-ai/helpers (150 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 915 once invoked, about $0.0000 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 2026-09-03.

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