markdown-tools

markdown-tools is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from seaworld008/Commonly-used-high-value-skills. It costs 31 tokens per session (1,349 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A document-conversion tool that turns PDF, DOCX, PPTX, or XLSX files into Markdown, a plain-text format that works well with code and language models. It can compare conversion methods, extract images, and check the result.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to convert documents, extract their images, compare conversion quality, and prepare files for downstream language-model work.
Why use it?
It removes the manual work of copying content from complex documents and helps catch conversion problems before the text is reused.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to convert documents, extract their images, compare conversion quality, and prepare files for downstream language-model work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/seaworld008/commonly-used-high-value-skills/markdown-tools
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 seaworld008/Commonly-used-high-value-skills --skill markdown-tools
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/seaworld008/Commonly-used-high-value-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,349 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 $0.00031 $0.01349
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00674
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00270
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00135

Measured 5d ago against content hash 3812f49fd9a9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

markdown-tools 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 5 executable files (scripts/convert_path.py, scripts/convert.py, scripts/extract_pdf_images.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.

openclaw-skills/markdown-tools/SKILL.md · 192 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 192 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Markdown Tools

Convert documents to high-quality markdown with intelligent multi-tool orchestration.

When to Use

Use this skill when the user wants to:

  • convert PDF, DOCX, PPTX, or XLSX into Markdown
  • extract images alongside Markdown output
  • compare multiple converters for quality
  • validate a conversion before downstream LLM use

Usage

Recommended flow:

choose quick or heavy mode
-> convert with best-fit tool(s)
-> validate output quality
-> extract images if needed
-> merge or refine outputs

Dual Mode Architecture

Mode Speed Quality Use Case
Quick (default) Fast Good Drafts, simple documents
Heavy Slower Best Final documents, complex layouts

Quick Start

Installation

# Required: PDF/DOCX/PPTX support
uv tool install "markitdown[pdf]"
pip install pymupdf4llm
brew install pandoc

Basic Conversion

# Quick Mode (default) - fast, single best tool
uv run --with pymupdf4llm --with markitdown scripts/convert.py document.pdf -o output.md

# Heavy Mode - multi-tool parallel execution with merge
uv run --with pymupdf4llm --with markitdown scripts/convert.py document.pdf -o output.md --heavy

# Check available tools
uv run scripts/convert.py --list-tools

Tool Selection Matrix

Format Quick Mode Tool Heavy Mode Tools
PDF pymupdf4llm pymupdf4llm + markitdown
DOCX pandoc pandoc + markitdown
PPTX markitdown markitdown + pandoc
XLSX markitdown markitdown

Tool Characteristics

  • pymupdf4llm: LLM-optimized PDF conversion with native table detection and image extraction
  • markitdown: Microsoft's universal converter, good for Office formats
  • pandoc: Excellent structure preservation for DOCX/PPTX

Heavy Mode Workflow

Heavy Mode runs multiple tools in parallel and selects the best segments:

  1. Parallel Execution: Run all applicable tools simultaneously
  2. Segment Analysis: Parse each output into segments (tables, headings, images, paragraphs)
  3. Quality Scoring: Score each segment based on completeness and structure
  4. Intelligent Merge: Select best version of each segment across tools

Read the full file on GitHub · 192 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 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. 5d ago Changed · -38 tokens per session 3812f49fd9a9
  2. 9d ago First seen · 192 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A ca6833b35b4f

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markdown-tools is a skill published in the GitHub repository seaworld008/Commonly-used-high-value-skills (70 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 1,349 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.