markitdown

A file-conversion toolkit that turns documents and other media into Markdown, including PDFs, Word files, presentations, spreadsheets, images, audio, web pages, and data files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to extract text or tables, apply OCR to images, transcribe audio, or convert files such as PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, HTML, CSV, JSON, XML, ZIP, EPUB, and YouTube content.
Why use it?
It makes information from many file types easier to read, search, and reuse as plain text.

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/ynulihao/agentskillos/markitdown
Any agent
npx skills add ynulihao/AgentSkillOS --skill markitdown
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ynulihao/AgentSkillOS

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,039 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00053 $0.03039
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01520
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00608
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00304

Measured 2d ago against content hash ad3fd15b452f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 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.

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
data/skill_seeds/markitdown/SKILL.md · 487 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

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 · 487 lines · 53 tokens per session scan B ad3fd15b452f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

markitdown is a skill published in the GitHub repository ynulihao/AgentSkillOS (609 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 3,039 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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