markitdown
Convert 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.
Install / Use
npx skills add K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills --skill markitdownInstalls into whichever agent you are using.
SKILL.md
Installable skill definition
Quality Score
Category
AutomationSupported Platforms
Our assessment of markitdown
markitdown scores 89/100 on our quality scale, 222nd of 1,003 Automation skills we index (top 23%).
We have not analysed the SKILL.md file itself yet, so the content part of this score is an estimate until our crawler reaches it.
With 46,441 GitHub stars, it is one of the more widely adopted skills in the catalogue.
Maintenance, license and trust
- The repository was last updated 3 days ago, so markitdown is actively maintained.
- It is released under the MIT license, a permissive license that allows use, modification and commercial use with attribution.
- Its trust signals score 100/100, with no cautions. These come from repository metadata, not a code audit — read the skill file before letting an agent act on it.
markitdown compared with similar skills
All 4 of these similar skills score higher than markitdown; compare them before choosing.
| Skill | Score | Stars | Updated | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| markitdown (this skill)by K-Dense-AI | 89 | 46.4k | 3d ago | SKILL.md |
| Agent-Reachby Panniantong | 100 | 85.3k | 9d ago | CLAUDE.md |
| headroomby headroomlabs-ai | 100 | 73.7k | today | CLAUDE.md |
| rufloby ruvnet | 100 | 73.2k | today | CLAUDE.md |
| CowAgentby zhayujie | 100 | 47.1k | today | CLAUDE.md |
Frequently asked questions
- How do I install markitdown?
- Run
npx skills add K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills --skill markitdown. The install tabs above show the steps for each supported agent. - Which AI agents does markitdown work with?
- It is written for Universal, as a SKILL.md file. Other agents that read the same format can often use it too.
- Is markitdown safe to use?
- It is MIT-licensed and scores 100/100 on trust signals. Skills are instructions an agent will follow, so read the file before installing it and do not approve commands you do not understand.
- Is markitdown still maintained?
- The repository was last updated 3 days ago, so markitdown is actively maintained.
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Trust signals
From repository metadata: license, adoption, age and documentation. Not a code audit — see the Safety scan above for what the skill file itself contains.