markitdown-skill

markitdown-skill is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from virgo777/buddyme. It costs 51 tokens per session (814 once invoked), scanned B, original, no licence file.

A guide and set of utilities for converting documents and other media into Markdown using Microsoft's MarkItDown library. It covers PDFs, office files, images with OCR, audio transcription, HTML, and YouTube.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to convert documents, spreadsheets, presentations, images, audio, web pages, and YouTube content into Markdown.
Why use it?
It turns content from different formats into Markdown that is easier to read, edit, and use in text-based workflows.

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 convert documents, spreadsheets, presentations, images, audio, web pages, and YouTube content into Markdown.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/virgo777/buddyme/markitdown-skill-1.0.1
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 virgo777/buddyme --skill markitdown-skill-1.0.1
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/virgo777/buddyme

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.

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README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/virgo777/buddyme/markitdown-skill-1.0.1/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/virgo777/buddyme/markitdown-skill-1.0.1)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/virgo777/buddyme/markitdown-skill-1.0.1"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/virgo777/buddyme/markitdown-skill-1.0.1/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.

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Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/virgo777/buddyme/markitdown-skill-1.0.1"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/virgo777/buddyme/markitdown-skill-1.0.1.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 814 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 $0.00051 $0.00814
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00407
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00163
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00081

Measured 10d ago against content hash 2e152e9690a4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

markitdown-skill 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 10d 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.

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
buddyMe/skill_library/skills/markitdown-skill-1.0.1/SKILL.md · 133 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

7 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. 10d ago First seen · 133 lines · 51 tokens per session scan B 2e152e9690a4

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markitdown-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository virgo777/buddyme (300 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 814 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-30.

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