markit

A tool guide for converting files and URLs into Markdown, a plain-text format for structured documents. It supports documents, web pages, spreadsheets, images, audio, archives, and other listed formats through a command line and programming interface.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to convert local files or web pages, retrieve content from GitHub links, save Markdown output, or call the converter from a Node.js program.
Why use it?
It provides one way to extract readable text from many different source formats instead of handling each format separately.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shift-labs-ai/markit/markit
Any agent
npx skills add shift-labs-ai/markit --skill markit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shift-labs-ai/markit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 347 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00055 $0.00347
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00173
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00069
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00035

Measured 2d ago against content hash 45a892c5b5fb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

markit 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 2d 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.

SKILL.md · 46 lines

What it actually says

markit

Convert anything to Markdown.

CLI

# Convert a file
npx @shiftlabs/markit report.pdf -q

# Convert a URL
npx @shiftlabs/markit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown -q

# GitHub URLs (repos, files, gists, issues, PRs)
npx @shiftlabs/markit https://github.com/owner/repo -q
npx @shiftlabs/markit https://github.com/owner/repo/issues/42 -q
npx @shiftlabs/markit https://gist.github.com/user/id -q

# Write to file
npx @shiftlabs/markit document.docx -q -o output.md

# See all options
npx @shiftlabs/markit --help

# See supported formats
npx @shiftlabs/markit formats

-q gives raw markdown. --json gives { markdown, title }.

SDK

import { Markit } from "@shiftlabs/markit";

const markit = new Markit();
const { markdown } = await markit.convertFile("report.pdf");
const { markdown } = await markit.convertUrl("https://example.com");
const { markdown } = await markit.convert(buffer, { extension: ".docx" });
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. 2d ago First seen · 46 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 45a892c5b5fb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

markit is a skill published in the GitHub repository shift-labs-ai/markit (1,317 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 347 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 2026-08-30.

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