doc-to-markdown SKILL.md skillA
doc-to-markdown from scdenney/open-science-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add scdenney/open-science-skills/doc-to-markdown@git:20261008.697c89fPins git:20261008.697c89f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- scdenney/open-science-skills
- Path
plugin/skills/doc-to-markdown/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261008.697c89f, committed Oct 8, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 17, 2026
- Size
- 8,347 bytes
- Repository stars
- 69
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Reads or converts documents in a research workflow, including PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OpenDocument, RTF, EPUB, and CSV. Chooses direct reading or conversion, selects a converter from document structure, and decides whether the Markdown is tracked or temporary. Use when a document must be read, quoted, summarized, searched, extracted, or added to a source library. Scanned documents go to vlm-ocr and bulk intake to research-repo.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Reading and Converting Documents ## Instructions ### 1. Decide whether to convert at all Conversion is a cost, not a default. Read the file directly with the Read tool when the question is bounded — Read handles PDFs natively, sees figures, equations, and layout that no text conversion preserves, and takes a `pages` range. **Read directly** when the document is under ~20 pages and the task is one pass over it (summarize, answer a question, check a claim, review a draft), when the payload is visual (figures, plots, scanned tables, slides), or when you need a page number you can cite. **Convert** when the document is longer than one read comfortably spans, when the text will be searched or quoted repeatedly, when it joins a corpus or source library, when many documents get the same treatment, or when a downstream tool (grep, a classifier, a script) needs plain text. `citation-check` and `fact-check` both require converted Markdown, one file per source. State which path you took in one line. Silently converting a two-page memo wastes a step; silently reading page 1 of a 300-page book and answering as if you read it all is worse. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add scdenney/open-science-skills/doc-to-markdown@sha256:b07269dd81e78e4aThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261008.697c89f, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_deikx6ju2ogsxwwk)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Aug 17, 2026 and Oct 8, 2026, about one every 13 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261008.697c89f latest | 2026-10-08 | 697c89f | 8,347 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260917.d88ee2d | 2026-09-17 | d88ee2d | 8,553 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260909.08bf795 | 2026-09-09 | 08bf795 | 8,522 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260902.da5a263 | 2026-09-02 | da5a263 | 8,647 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260817.a1ba97b | 2026-08-17 | a1ba97b | 8,660 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (8347 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
scdenney/open-science-skills · 69 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_deikx6ju2ogsxwwk GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=scdenney/open-science-skills/doc-to-markdown GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b07269dd81e78e4a229b8467beb58d57bcfe5211e5c83a49a6281edf264ea102
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