save-md

save-md is a skill for Claude Code from mblode/agent-skills. It costs 64 tokens per session (537 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool that turns named talks, articles, conversations, web pages, PDFs, images, or files into Markdown files for the next turn to read.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to save a source, extract a PDF, transcribe a talk, convert content to Markdown, or keep material available for a follow-up task.
Why use it?
It keeps the full source available as working context instead of relying on a summary or memory. It also removes navigation and cookie text while preserving the source's paragraphs.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Good fit Use it to save a source, extract a PDF, transcribe a talk, convert content to Markdown, or keep material available for a follow-up task.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mblode/agent-skills/save-md
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 mblode/agent-skills --skill save-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mblode/agent-skills

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.

agentmods badge for save-md

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/mblode/agent-skills/save-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mblode/agent-skills/save-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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 save-md

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/mblode/agent-skills/save-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mblode/agent-skills/save-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 537 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 3 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Prompt Injection · line 48
    This pattern attempts to override system instructions or ignore safety constraints. Without LLM analysis, manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Remove or rewrite any text that instructs the agent to ignore prompts, override safety rules, or trust unverified content. Ensure skill content cannot be injected to alter agent behavior.
  • high YARA Match · line 48
    YARA rule matched a hack tool or exploit indicator (offensive tools, reconnaissance, privilege escalation, or exploit frameworks).
    Fix: Remove offensive tool references and exploit code. Legitimate agent skills should not contain penetration testing tools, exploit frameworks, or reconnaissance utilities.
  • high YARA Match · line 69
    YARA rule matched a known malware signature (reverse shell, backdoor, ransomware, C2 framework, or info stealer).
    Fix: Remove the malware payload or compromised file entirely. Investigate how it entered the skill and audit all other artifacts for additional indicators of compromise.
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 $0.00064 $0.00537
Opus 5.5 $0.00026 $0.00215
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00107
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00054

Measured 1mo ago against content hash d23c3ecd127d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

save-md scanned grade A 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

Fetch with `curl -sSL -o <file> <url>` and read the file. Prefer a text endpoint over HTML chrome. A missing file with a named reason (paywall, login wall, bot check, private doc) beats a plausible one.
skills/save-md/SKILL.md · 40 lines

What it actually says

Save as Markdown

Write the named source to a .md file, in full, and say where it is. The body comes from the fetched bytes, never from a summary.

  • IS: one named source (URL, attachment, paste, YouTube video, Google Doc, PDF) to one .md in the user's tree.
  • IS NOT: answering from a fetch, summarizing into chat, crawling beyond the URLs named, or reconstructing a talk from memory.

Done

A .md exists where the user can open it, with this frontmatter, and reading it back returns the source's last paragraph:

---
title: "<title>"
source: "<URL or path>"
date: "<date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ, run now>"
type: web | youtube | gdoc | sheet | slides | pdf | docx | tweet | conversation
---

Fetch with curl -sSL -o <file> <url> and read the file. Prefer a text endpoint over HTML chrome. A missing file with a named reason (paywall, login wall, bot check, private doc) beats a plausible one.

File Read when
references/source-endpoints.md Always, for the URL's host: the tested endpoint, its curl line, the failure each one shows, and the opt-in fallback reader

Gotchas

  • WebFetch hands the page to a small model and returns its answer: a 1,200-word post came back as 120 words. Only Content-Type: text/markdown under 100K characters passes through intact.
  • oEmbed, GitHub ?raw=true, and Drive downloads redirect across hosts. Without -L you save an empty 301.
  • YouTube's "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot" is an IP block: --cookies-from-browser on a laptop, stop in a sandbox. The description is not the talk.
  • An empty .md next to a large PDF means a scan, not a blank document: render the pages and read them.

Maintenance only: evals/evals.json holds scenarios and routing prompts for anyone changing this skill.

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. 1mo ago Changed · -48 lines scan B → A d23c3ecd127d
  2. 1mo ago Changed · -11 lines · -114 tokens per session 900a86577e42
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 99 lines · 178 tokens per session scan B f4f0c385efc1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

save-md is a skill published in the GitHub repository mblode/agent-skills (167 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 537 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.