markitdown

markitdown is a skill for Claude Code from RashadAnsari/myagents. It costs 54 tokens per session (455 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A document-conversion skill that turns PDFs, Word files, spreadsheets, web pages, images, audio, and other supported sources into Markdown text.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you need to read or extract content from a local file, web page, document, spreadsheet, image, recording, or YouTube URL.
Why use it?
It provides a consistent text format for reading, summarizing, searching, or processing content. It can also extract text from sources such as images and audio.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the albino plugin — 8 skills, 9 commands, 13 agents, 3 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it when you need to read or extract content from a local file, web page, document, spreadsheet, image, recording, or YouTube URL.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install albino, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 9 commands, 13 agents, 3 MCP servers.

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
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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 455 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 $0.00054 $0.00455
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00228
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00091
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00046

Measured 7d ago against content hash 681bff1e3a0e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, 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 7d 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.

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/albino/skills/markitdown/SKILL.md · 61 lines

What it actually says

Markitdown: Convert Anything to Markdown

The markitdown MCP server exposes a single tool that converts any supported resource to Markdown.

Tool

convert_to_markdown(uri: string)   # on the markitdown MCP server

The uri parameter accepts:

Scheme Example Use for
file: file:///Users/you/report.pdf Local files on disk
https: / http: https://example.com/page Web pages and remote documents
data: data:text/html;base64,... Inline base64-encoded content

Supported Formats

PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, HTML, CSV, JSON, XML, ZIP archives, images (with EXIF metadata and OCR), audio (with speech transcription), EPubs, and YouTube URLs.

When to Use

  • User says "convert this file to markdown", "read this PDF", "extract text from this Word doc"
  • User pastes a file path and asks what is in it
  • User wants to summarize or process a document before passing it to another tool
  • User needs to index or search document content

How to Use

Local file:

convert_to_markdown(
  uri="file:///absolute/path/to/file.pdf"
)

Always use an absolute path. Relative paths will fail.

Remote URL:

convert_to_markdown(
  uri="https://example.com/document"
)

After Conversion

The tool returns the full Markdown content as a string. You can then:

  • Write it to a .md file in the project with Write
  • Summarize or process it inline
  • Pass it to another tool or agent
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. 7d ago First seen · 61 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 681bff1e3a0e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

markitdown is a skill published in the GitHub repository RashadAnsari/myagents (6 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 455 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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