markitdown

SUMMARY

What it does

This Agent Skill provides procedural guidance for using Microsoft MarkItDown (targeting version 0.1.6) to convert heterogeneous documents and selected URIs into Markdown. The skill covers safe local conversion, stream handling, Office/PDF/data formats, batch workflows, plugins, vision OCR, Azure extraction, and the official MCP server. It emphasizes security practices such as treating converted text as untrusted, separating local and external processing, and keeping plugins opt-in. The skill is part of the Scientific Agent Skills library by K-Dense and is licensed under MIT.