md-to-pdf

A workflow for turning Markdown files into PDF documents. Markdown is plain text formatted with simple symbols for headings, lists, links, and other document structure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to export documentation, reports, and other .md files as PDFs with simple, language-specific, or browser-based rendering options.
Why use it?
It removes the need to reformat Markdown manually when a document must be shared, printed, or delivered as a PDF.

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/xyruscode/ai-sync/md-to-pdf
Any agent
npx skills add XyrusCode/ai-sync --skill md-to-pdf
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/XyrusCode/ai-sync

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 793 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00048 $0.00793
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00396
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00159
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00079

Measured 2d ago against content hash facaa68eb18d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

md-to-pdf 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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/md2pdf.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 pandoc texlive-latex-base texlive-fonts-recommended
skills/md-to-pdf/SKILL.md · 137 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 137 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Markdown to PDF Conversion

Convert Markdown documents to PDF with various formatting options.

Quick Start

Method 1: Pandoc (Recommended for Complex Documents)

Requirements: pandoc + LaTeX

# Ubuntu/Debian
sudo apt-get install pandoc texlive-latex-base texlive-fonts-recommended

# macOS
brew install pandoc basictex

Basic conversion:

pandoc input.md -o output.pdf

With Chinese support:

pandoc input.md -o output.pdf --pdf-engine=xelatex -V CJKmainfont="Noto Sans CJK SC"

With custom CSS (via HTML):

pandoc input.md -o output.pdf --css=style.css

Method 2: Python Script (No LaTeX Required)

Use the bundled script for lightweight conversion:

python scripts/md2pdf.py input.md output.pdf

Features:

  • No LaTeX installation needed
  • Basic markdown support
  • Faster for simple documents

Method 3: Playwright/Chromium (Best Rendering)

For pixel-perfect control:

# Convert to HTML first
pandoc input.md -o temp.html --standalone

# Print to PDF with Chromium
npx playwright-core chromium --headless --print-to-pdf=output.pdf temp.html

Method Selection Guide

Need Method Why
Chinese/Asian languages Pandoc + xelatex Font support
Math equations Pandoc + LaTeX KaTeX/MathJax rendering
Code highlighting Pandoc Pygments integration
Quick & simple Python script Fast, no deps
Custom styling Playwright Full CSS control
Batch processing Python script Easy to automate

Common Options

Pandoc Options

# Table of contents
pandoc input.md -o output.pdf --toc

# Page size
pandoc input.md -o output.pdf -V geometry:margin=1in

# Template
pandoc input.md -o output.pdf --template=eisvogel

# Syntax highlighting
pandoc input.md -o output.pdf --highlight-style=tango

Python Script Usage

# Basic
python scripts/md2pdf.py document.md

# Custom output
python scripts/md2pdf.py document.md reports/weekly.pdf

Read the full file on GitHub · 137 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 2d ago First seen · 137 lines · 48 tokens per session scan B facaa68eb18d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

md-to-pdf is a skill published in the GitHub repository XyrusCode/ai-sync (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 793 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.