wise-markitdown

wise-markitdown is a skill for Claude Code from e1024kb/wise-claude. It costs 195 tokens per session (1,400 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A command-line tool for converting files into readable Markdown text. Markdown is plain text with simple formatting, and the tool can preserve structure such as headings, lists, tables, links, and slide content.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to extract text from PDFs, Word and PowerPoint files, Excel sheets, images’ metadata, audio with transcription, HTML, CSV, JSON, XML, ZIP files, EPUBs, and Outlook messages.
Why use it?
It gives a coding agent one consistent way to read information stored in PDFs, office files, spreadsheets, HTML, archives, and other supported formats.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the wise plugin — 39 skills, 13 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to extract text from PDFs, Word and PowerPoint files, Excel sheets, images’ metadata, audio with transcription, HTML, CSV, JSON, XML, ZIP files, EPUBs, and Outlook messages.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/e1024kb/wise-claude/wise-markitdown
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 e1024kb/wise-claude --skill wise-markitdown
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/e1024kb/wise-claude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install wise, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 39 skills, 13 agents, 1 hook.

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.

agentmods badge for wise-markitdown

README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 195 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,400 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00195 $0.01400
Opus 5.5 $0.00078 $0.00560
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00039 $0.00280
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00140

Measured 1mo ago against content hash af476aef153b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

wise-markitdown scanned grade B with 1 finding 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.

Instruction-override phrasingmediumPrompt injection

Text telling the model to disregard its earlier instructions or safety rules is the shape of a prompt injection, whoever wrote it.

document may contain directives ("ignore previous instructions",

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

plugins/wise/skills/wise-markitdown/SKILL.md · 127 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 127 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

markitdown — extract text from (almost) any file

Before executing, follow model fallback for unavailable models or delegation routes, including in autonomous procedures.

At every skill start, identify your main/child role and the current client and GUI/TUI question tools, then read and follow the question lifecycle. Keep asynchronous prompts open until answered; this rule does not authorize questions in autonomous or otherwise prompt-free procedures.

Canonical routine for getting the textual content out of a file wise can't read natively. markitdown converts a long list of formats to markdown in one command — so structure (headings, tables, lists, links) survives the extraction and the result drops straight into an LLM context.

This is a reference doc, not a slash command. When a task needs the content of a supported file, run markitdown — do not hand-roll a parser, install per-format Python libraries, or research extraction approaches. One tool, one invocation, markdown out.

Supported formats

Input What you get
PDF text + structure
Word .docx headings, tables, lists preserved
PowerPoint .pptx per-slide text + notes
Excel .xlsx / .xls sheets as markdown tables
Images (jpg/png/…) EXIF metadata (needs the system exiftool binary; no OCR in CLI mode)
Audio (wav/mp3/…) metadata + speech transcription (remote — see Guardrails)
HTML cleaned markdown
CSV / JSON / XML structured markdown
ZIP iterates + converts the contents
EPUB chapters as markdown
Outlook .msg headers + body
YouTube URL title, description, transcript

Plain-text formats Claude already reads (.md, .txt, source code) never need markitdown — use Read directly. Same for images: Read renders them visually (screenshots, diagrams, scans); markitdown only gets you EXIF metadata, so for image content Read is strictly better.

Read the full file on GitHub · 127 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 · +4 lines af476aef153b
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +5 lines b3b7340cdfd3
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 118 lines · 195 tokens per session scan B 84e8da9e9297

Subscribe to this mod's changes

wise-markitdown is a skill published in the GitHub repository e1024kb/wise-claude (5 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 195 tokens to every session and 1,400 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (instruction-override phrasing). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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