Converts 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
npx skills add K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills --skill markitdownnpx skills add K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills --skill markitdown -a claude-code -gnpx skills add K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills --skill markitdown -a codex -ggemini skills install https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills.git --path skills/markitdowngh skill install K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills markitdowngit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills /tmp/K-Dense-AI__scientific-agent-skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills ~/.agents/skills
cp -R /tmp/K-Dense-AI__scientific-agent-skills/skills/markitdown ~/.claude/skills/markitdown # Claude Code
cp -R /tmp/K-Dense-AI__scientific-agent-skills/skills/markitdown ~/.agents/skills/markitdown # Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, OpenCode