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markitdown

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By K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-skills (GitHub) · data · 57,146 stars · scanned at commit 2d2065f

Converts heterogeneous documents and selected URIs to Markdown with Microsoft MarkItDown for text analysis, search, and LLM/RAG ingestion. Covers safe local conversion, streams, Office/PDF/data formats, batch workflows, plugins, vision OCR, Azure extraction, and the official MCP server.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

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Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'markitdown' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'markitdown' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named markitdown already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '2d2065fb4520fa3f3f2bcf61cff26ec8b7eba4b5' -- 'skills/markitdown' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/markitdown' ~/.agents/skills/'markitdown' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'markitdown' ~/.claude/skills/'markitdown' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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• K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills/skills/markitdown