markitdown

markitdown is a skill for Claude Code from magic3007/dotfiles. It costs 53 tokens per session (3,042 once invoked), scanned B, a copy of markitdown, MIT.

A file-conversion tool that turns documents, images, audio, web pages, and structured data into Markdown text. It can use OCR for images and scanned documents and transcribe audio.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to extract text from PDFs, office files, images, audio, HTML, CSV, JSON, XML, ZIP files, EPUBs, and YouTube URLs for further analysis or documentation.
Why use it?
It puts information from many file types into one readable format that coding agents and other language models can process more easily.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to extract text from PDFs, office files, images, audio, HTML, CSV, JSON, XML, ZIP files, EPUBs, and YouTube URLs for further analysis or documentation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/magic3007/dotfiles/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 magic3007/dotfiles --skill markitdown
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/magic3007/dotfiles

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

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README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/magic3007/dotfiles/markitdown/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/magic3007/dotfiles/markitdown)
Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for markitdown

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,042 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 98% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00053 $0.03042
Opus 5.5 $0.00021 $0.01217
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00608
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00304

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 483c095bb034, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 5 executable files (scripts/batch_convert.py, scripts/convert_literature.py, scripts/convert_with_ai.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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr
Origin

This is a copy

98% identical to markitdown — 25 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/scientific-agent-skills/skills/markitdown/SKILL.md · 490 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 490 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MarkItDown - File to Markdown Conversion

Overview

MarkItDown is a Python tool developed by Microsoft for converting various file formats to Markdown. It's particularly useful for converting documents into LLM-friendly text format, as Markdown is token-efficient and well-understood by modern language models.

Key Benefits:

  • Convert documents to clean, structured Markdown
  • Token-efficient format for LLM processing
  • Supports 15+ file formats
  • Optional AI-enhanced image descriptions
  • OCR for images and scanned documents
  • Speech transcription for audio files

Visual Enhancement with Scientific Schematics

When creating documents with this skill, always consider adding scientific diagrams and schematics to enhance visual communication.

If your document does not already contain schematics or diagrams:

  • Use the scientific-schematics skill to generate AI-powered publication-quality diagrams
  • Simply describe your desired diagram in natural language
  • Nano Banana Pro will automatically generate, review, and refine the schematic

For new documents: Scientific schematics should be generated by default to visually represent key concepts, workflows, architectures, or relationships described in the text.

How to generate schematics:

python scripts/generate_schematic.py "your diagram description" -o figures/output.png

The AI will automatically:

  • Create publication-quality images with proper formatting
  • Review and refine through multiple iterations
  • Ensure accessibility (colorblind-friendly, high contrast)
  • Save outputs in the figures/ directory

When to add schematics:

  • Document conversion workflow diagrams
  • File format architecture illustrations
  • OCR processing pipeline diagrams
  • Integration workflow visualizations
  • System architecture diagrams
  • Data flow diagrams
  • Any complex concept that benefits from visualization

For detailed guidance on creating schematics, refer to the scientific-schematics skill documentation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 490 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 First seen · 490 lines · 53 tokens per session scan B 483c095bb034

Subscribe to this mod's changes

markitdown is a skill published in the GitHub repository magic3007/dotfiles (11 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 3,042 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). It is 98% identical to markitdown, differing in 25 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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