md-to-pdf

md-to-pdf is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from fabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall. It costs 17 tokens per session (379 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A converter that turns Markdown into PDF files through Pandoc, a document-conversion program, using either a LaTeX typesetting engine or an HTML-based renderer.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for reports, manuscripts, documentation, and other Markdown files that need PDF output, syntax-highlighted code, or rendered Mermaid diagrams.
Why use it?
It provides a repeatable way to create printable documents while letting you choose between detailed typography and faster rendering.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it for reports, manuscripts, documentation, and other Markdown files that need PDF output, syntax-highlighted code, or rendered Mermaid diagrams.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fabioc-aloha/alex_skill_mall/md-to-pdf
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 fabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall --skill md-to-pdf
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 379 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 $0.00017 $0.00379
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00189
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00076
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00038

Measured 8d ago against content hash 856b12e27bf5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

md-to-pdf 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 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (md-to-pdf.cjs), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/converters/md-to-pdf/skills/md-to-pdf/SKILL.md · 59 lines

What it actually says

md-to-pdf

Convert Markdown to PDF via Pandoc with two rendering engines.

When to Use

  • Reports, manuscripts, and printable documentation
  • Documents needing high-fidelity typography (LaTeX engine)
  • Faster turnaround drafts (HTML/wkhtmltopdf engine)

What's Here

md-to-pdf.cjs — Node script that wraps Pandoc.

External Dependencies

  • node (≥ 16)
  • pandoc (≥ 3.0) on PATH
  • One of:
    • lualatex / TeX Live (high-quality typography, slower)
    • wkhtmltopdf (HTML route, faster, less precise)

Usage

node md-to-pdf.cjs input.md
node md-to-pdf.cjs input.md --engine lualatex
node md-to-pdf.cjs input.md --engine wkhtmltopdf
node md-to-pdf.cjs input.md --output custom.pdf

The script auto-detects available engines if --engine is omitted, preferring lualatex when present.

Frontmatter Hooks

YAML frontmatter is forwarded to Pandoc. Useful keys:

---
title: My Document
author: Your Name
date: 2026-04-28
toc: true
geometry: margin=1in
---

Notes

  • Mermaid diagrams are pre-rendered to PNG and embedded
  • Code blocks get syntax highlighting via Pandoc's --highlight-style
  • Round-trip from md-to-htmlwkhtmltopdf is roughly equivalent to the HTML engine
Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 8d ago First seen · 59 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 856b12e27bf5

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md-to-pdf is a skill published in the GitHub repository fabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall (4 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 379 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.