markitdown

markitdown is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Microck/ordinary-claude-skills. It costs 101 tokens per session (1,559 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A converter that turns files and online content into Markdown, a plain-text format that is easy for language models and people to process. It handles documents, PDFs, images, audio, web pages, structured data, and more.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to extract PDF or Office text, transcribe audio, read text from images with OCR, obtain YouTube transcripts, and convert structured data to Markdown.
Why use it?
It removes the manual work of extracting readable text from mixed file types. This gives downstream tools a more consistent input for searching, summarizing, or analysis.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it to extract PDF or Office text, transcribe audio, read text from images with OCR, obtain YouTube transcripts, and convert structured data to Markdown.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/microck/ordinary-claude-skills/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 Microck/ordinary-claude-skills --skill markitdown
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Microck/ordinary-claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 markitdown

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microck/ordinary-claude-skills/markitdown/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/microck/ordinary-claude-skills/markitdown)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/microck/ordinary-claude-skills/markitdown"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microck/ordinary-claude-skills/markitdown/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 markitdown

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/microck/ordinary-claude-skills/markitdown"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microck/ordinary-claude-skills/markitdown.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 101 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,559 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 unknown 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 $0.00101 $0.01559
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00779
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00312
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00156

Measured 8d ago against content hash 370e2f53e2a3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

markitdown 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 (scripts/batch_convert.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.

skills_all/claude-scientific-skills/scientific-skills/markitdown/SKILL.md · 242 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 8d ago First seen · 242 lines · 101 tokens per session scan A 370e2f53e2a3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

markitdown is a skill published in the GitHub repository Microck/ordinary-claude-skills (394 stars, last pushed 4d ago), with no licence file. It adds 101 tokens to every session and 1,559 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.

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