markdown-toc

markdown-toc is a skill for Claude Code from Emasoft/ghe-marketplace. It costs 54 tokens per session (1,469 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for creating or updating a table of contents in Markdown files. Markdown is a plain-text format commonly used for documentation, and the tool can process one file, many files, or folders recursively.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to generate or refresh documentation contents lists, limit which heading levels appear, process multiple files, or insert a contents list at a chosen marker.
Why use it?
It keeps documentation navigation in sync when headings change. Preview and insertion options let you check the result before updating files.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the marketplace-utils plugin — 2 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to generate or refresh documentation contents lists, limit which heading levels appear, process multiple files, or insert a contents list at a chosen marker.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add Emasoft/ghe-marketplace
Claude Code
/plugin install marketplace-utils

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install marketplace-utils, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,469 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 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 $0.00054 $0.01469
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00734
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00294
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00147

Measured 9d ago against content hash 892bf1937daf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

markdown-toc 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 9d 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.

plugins/marketplace-utils/skills/markdown-toc/SKILL.md · 264 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 264 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Markdown Table of Contents Generator

A universal TOC generator that works with any markdown file. Supports batch processing, configurable header levels, and smart insertion.

Quick Start

# Single file
python "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/generate_toc.py" README.md

# Preview without changes
python "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/generate_toc.py" --dry-run README.md

# All markdown files in docs/
python "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/generate_toc.py" docs/*.md

# Recursive processing
python "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/generate_toc.py" --recursive .

Note: You can also copy the script to your project and run it locally.

Options

Option Default Description
--dry-run false Preview TOC without modifying files
--min-level N 2 Minimum header level (1-6)
--max-level N 3 Maximum header level (1-6)
--title TEXT "Table of Contents" Custom TOC title
--no-title false Omit TOC title
--recursive, -r false Process .md files recursively
--insert MODE auto Insertion mode: auto, top, marker
--marker TEXT <!-- TOC --> Custom marker for marker mode

Insertion Modes

Auto Mode (default)

Smart detection in this order:

  1. Replace existing ## Table of Contents section
  2. Insert after first --- separator (common README pattern)
  3. Insert after YAML frontmatter
  4. Insert after first header
  5. Insert at top of file
python scripts/generate_toc.py README.md

Top Mode

Insert at top of file, respecting YAML frontmatter:

python scripts/generate_toc.py --insert top README.md

Marker Mode

Insert/replace between marker pairs:

python scripts/generate_toc.py --insert marker README.md

In your markdown file:

<!-- TOC -->
(TOC will be inserted/updated here)
<!-- /TOC -->

Custom markers:

python scripts/generate_toc.py --insert marker --marker "<!-- INDEX -->" README.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 264 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. 9d ago First seen · 264 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 892bf1937daf

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markdown-toc is a skill published in the GitHub repository Emasoft/ghe-marketplace (4 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 1,469 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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