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markitdown
Guide for using Microsoft MarkItDown - a Python utility for converting files to Markdown. Use when converting PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, images, audio, HTML, CSV, JSON, XML, ZIP, YouTube URLs, EPubs, Jupyter notebooks, RSS feeds, or Wikipedia pages to Markdown format. Also use for document processing pipelines, LLM preprocessing, or text extraction tasks.
Works with
Install in three steps
- 1
Download the ZIP
One file per agent, plus INSTALL.md with the exact paths below.
- 2
Claude Code: copy SKILL.md into your skills folder
.claude/skills/markitdown/SKILL.md # this project ~/.claude/skills/markitdown/SKILL.md # every project
- 3
Other agents: use the matching file
skill.mdc goes in Cursor’s .cursor/rules/. AGENTS.md works as GitHub Copilot instructions, a legacy .cursorrules, or a Codex / Gemini CLI instructions file.

