markitdown

markitdown is a skill for Claude Code from szaghi/dotfiles. It costs 53 tokens per session (2,269 once invoked), scanned B, original, no licence file.

A file-conversion skill that turns many kinds of files into Markdown, a plain-text format commonly used for documentation. It supports office files, PDFs, images, audio, web pages, data files, archives, video-site URLs, and e-books.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to convert PDFs, DOCX, presentations, spreadsheets, images with OCR, audio with transcription, HTML, CSV, JSON, XML, ZIP files, YouTube URLs, and EPUBs.
Why use it?
Information stored in different formats is harder to read, search, and reuse consistently. Converting it to Markdown puts the content into a common text form.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to convert PDFs, DOCX, presentations, spreadsheets, images with OCR, audio with transcription, HTML, CSV, JSON, XML, ZIP files, YouTube URLs, and EPUBs.

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

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 markitdown

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/szaghi/dotfiles/markitdown/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/szaghi/dotfiles/markitdown)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/szaghi/dotfiles/markitdown"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/szaghi/dotfiles/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/szaghi/dotfiles/markitdown"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/szaghi/dotfiles/markitdown.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,269 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00053 $0.02269
Opus 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00908
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00454
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00227

Measured 13d ago against content hash 2143f76daeba, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

markitdown scanned grade B 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 13d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/batch_convert.py, scripts/convert_literature.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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr
claude/.claude/skills/markitdown/SKILL.md · 386 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 13d ago Changed · -68 lines 2143f76daeba
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 454 lines · 53 tokens per session scan B a191260602f7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

markitdown is a skill published in the GitHub repository szaghi/dotfiles (6 stars, last pushed 2d ago), with no licence file. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 2,269 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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