epub-to-markdown

epub-to-markdown is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jykim/claude-obsidian-skills. It costs 0 tokens per session (541 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A converter that turns EPUB ebooks into one structured Markdown file and extracts their images into a separate folder.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to convert book content, preserve heading structure and table-of-contents hierarchy, and extract reusable book images.
Why use it?
It avoids manually copying chapters, headings, metadata, and images from an ebook into Markdown.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to convert book content, preserve heading structure and table-of-contents hierarchy, and extract reusable book images.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jykim/claude-obsidian-skills/epub-to-markdown
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 jykim/claude-obsidian-skills --skill epub-to-markdown
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jykim/claude-obsidian-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 541 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00000 $0.00541
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00270
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00108
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00054

Measured 13d ago against content hash 6e105f5b0c9c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

epub-to-markdown 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 13d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (epub_to_markdown.py), 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.

epub-to-markdown/SKILL.md · 97 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

EPUB to Markdown Skill

Convert EPUB files to well-formatted single markdown files with images extracted.

Usage

python3 epub_to_markdown.py "<epub_path>" -o "<output_path>"

Features

  • Metadata extraction: title, author, language, publisher, publication date
  • TOC parsing: Extracts table of contents with hierarchy
  • HTML to Markdown: Converts chapter HTML using html2text
  • Heading preservation: Maintains H1-H6 hierarchy
  • Image extraction: Extracts images to _files_/ folder with book prefix
  • Single file output: All chapters in one markdown file

Output Structure

output_dir/
├── book.epub           # Original file
├── book.md             # Extracted markdown
└── _files_/            # Images folder
    ├── BookTitle_cover.jpg
    ├── BookTitle_figure1.png
    └── ...

Image Prefix

Images are extracted with a book prefix derived from the title:

  • Title: "Die Empty: Unleash Your Best Work Every Day"
  • Prefix: DieEmptyUnleash (first 3 words, special chars removed)
  • Image: _files_/DieEmptyUnleash_cover.jpg

This prevents filename collisions when extracting multiple books to the same folder.

Output Format

---
title: {from metadata}
author: {from metadata}
language: {from metadata}
source_file: original.epub
source_type: epub
extracted: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
status: extracted
---

# {Book Title}

## Table of Contents
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
...

---

## Chapter 1

{content with ![alt](_files_/BookTitle_image.png) links}

---

## Chapter 2

{content}

Dependencies

pip install ebooklib beautifulsoup4 html2text

Or use requirements.txt:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Options

Flag Description
-o, --output Output markdown file path (default: same as epub with .md)
-q, --quiet Suppress progress messages

Limitations

  • DRM-protected EPUBs: Cannot be extracted (will fail with error)
  • Complex formatting: May simplify to plain text
  • Large EPUBs: May take time for books with many chapters/images

Read the full file on GitHub · 97 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 13d ago First seen · 97 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 6e105f5b0c9c

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epub-to-markdown is a skill published in the GitHub repository jykim/claude-obsidian-skills (50 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 541 tokens. 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 2026-08-30.

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