Turn “things” (URLs, PDFs, Word docs, PowerPoints, HTML pages, text files, etc.) into Markdown so they can be inspected/quoted/processed like normal text. markitdown can fetch URLs by itself; this skill mainly wraps it to make saving + summarizing convenient. For PDF inputs, use the markitdown[pdf] extra (or the wrapper below, which now does this automatically). When to use Use this skill when you need to: pull down a web page as a document-like Markdown representation convert binary docs (PDF/DOCX/PPTX) into Markdown for analysis quickly produce a short summary of a long document before deeper work Quick usage Convert a URL or file to Markdown Run from this skill folder (the agent should cd here first): uvx --from 'markitdown[pdf]' markitdown < url-or-path
To write Markdown to a temp file (prints the path) use the wrapper: node to-markdown.mjs < url-or-path
--tmp Tip: when summarizing, the script will always write the full converted Markdown to a temp .md file and will always print a final "Hint" line with the path (so you can open/inspect the full content). Write Markdown to a specific file: uvx --from 'markitdown[pdf]' markitdown < url-or-path
/tmp/doc.md Convert + summarize with haiku-4-5 (pass context!) Summaries are only useful when you provide what you want extracted and the audience/purpose . node to-markdown.mjs < url-or-path
--summary --prompt "Summarize focusing on X, for audience Y. Extract Z." Or: node to-markdown.mjs < url-or-path
--summary --prompt "Focus on security implications and action items." This will: convert to Markdown via uvx --from 'markitdown[pdf]' markitdown write the full Markdown to a temp .md file and print its path as a "Hint" line run pi --model claude-haiku-4-5 (no-tools, no-session) to summarize using your extra prompt