Markitdown Cli
Use when converting local document files such as PDFs, Office documents, HTML, text, or other MarkItDown-supported inputs into Markdown.
Install
$ agentstack add skill-choral-io-choral-skills-markitdown-cli ✓ scanned · ✓ verified, works with Claude Code, Cursor, and more.
Security review
✓ PassedNo issues found. Passed automated security review. · v0.1.0 How review works →
- ✓ Prompt-injection patterns
- ✓ Secret / credential exfiltration
- ✓ Dangerous shell & filesystem operations
- ✓ Untrusted network calls
- ✓ Known-malicious package signatures
What it can access
- ✓ Network access No
- ✓ Filesystem access No
- ✓ Shell / process execution No
- ✓ Environment & secrets No
- ✓ Dynamic code execution No
From automated source analysis of v0.1.0. “Used” means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it’s unsafe.
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Declared compatibility
Compatibility is declared by the source manifest. End-to-end runtime verification is coming, see below.
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MarkItDown CLI
Use the installed markitdown command to convert readable local files into Markdown. Preserve source files and prefer the CLI over custom extraction code unless the user rejects it or a conversion fails for a clear reason.
Use for single-file or batch conversion, conversion checks or retries, stdin, and extensionless inputs. Do not use for summarizing without conversion, editing existing Markdown, dependency management, or standalone OCR/cloud extraction.
Workflow
- Locate inputs; inspect names, sizes, and planned output paths.
- Verify
command -v markitdown. If missing, report it, do not install without approval, and point tohttps://github.com/microsoft/markitdown#installation. - Choose output paths. Do not overwrite existing
.mdfiles unless replacement is explicit. - Run one
markitdowninvocation per input so failures are attributable. Quote paths and avoid unsafe glob assumptions. - Use
--extensionor--mime-typefor stdin, extensionless files, or misleading filenames. - Spot-check Markdown for empty output, truncation, encoding problems, or missing structure.
- Report converted files, skipped existing outputs, failures with exact CLI errors, and any follow-up dependency issue.
Commands
| Need | Pattern | | --------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ | | Save converted output | markitdown input.docx -o output.md | | Stream to stdout | markitdown input.pdf | | Extensionless input | markitdown --extension pdf input -o output.md | | Stdin type hint | markitdown --mime-type text/html -o output.md < input.html | | Text encoding | markitdown input.txt --charset utf-8 -o output.md |
Use --use-docintel or --use-content-understanding only for MarkItDown Markdown conversion when the user explicitly asks for that route and the required endpoint is configured.
Source & license
This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.
- Author: choral-io
- Source: choral-io/choral-skills
- License: MIT
- Homepage: https://github.com/choral-io/choral-skills
Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.
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Versions
- v0.1.0 Imported from the upstream source.