converting-files SKILL.md skillA
converting-files from oaustegard/claude-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/converting-files@v0.1.1Pins v0.1.1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- oaustegard/claude-skills
- Path
plugins/media-processing/skills/converting-files/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v0.1.1, committed Jul 25, 2026
- Size
- 6,612 bytes
- Repository stars
- 158
- License
- MIT
Convert a file from one format to another inside the container — documents, images, audio, video. Routes to the right engine (pandoc, LibreOffice, ImageMagick, ffmpeg) by format pair. Triggers on "convert X to Y", "turn this docx into a pdf", "make a gif from this mp4", "md to docx", "batch-convert these images", or any single-file or batch format change where the source and target extensions differ. NOT for editing content (use docx/pptx/xlsx/pdf skills), creating files from scratch, or…
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
# converting-files Four conversion engines are already in this container — `pandoc`, `libreoffice` (headless), ImageMagick's `convert`, and `ffmpeg`. The hard part isn't running them; it's picking the right one. pandoc mangles a real `.docx` into PDF; LibreOffice is the tool for that. pandoc is *better* than LibreOffice for `md → docx`. Neither touches `mp4 → gif`. This skill encodes that routing so the choice isn't re-derived (often wrongly) each time. `scripts/convert.py` is a dispatcher over those four binaries, not a new engine. Use it for the common cases; drop to the raw engine when you need flags it doesn't pass through. ## Is this the right skill? | You want to… | Use instead | | --- | --- | | Change a file's **format** (ext A → ext B) | **this skill** | | Edit/author a Word/PPT/Excel/PDF's **content** | `docx` / `pptx` / `xlsx` / `pdf` skills | | Read a file already shown in context | just read it — no conversion | | Extract text/tables *from* a PDF | `pdf-reading` skill | | Fill or merge PDFs | `pdf` skill | Format change = here. Content change = a content skill. A `docx → pdf` is a format change; "fix the grammar in this docx" is not. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/converting-files@sha256:c75fa6bc62ede556The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.1.1, 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_ghcjdzkbnxtoilqv)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 25, 2026.
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 (6612 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
oaustegard/claude-skills · 158 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ghcjdzkbnxtoilqv GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=oaustegard/claude-skills/converting-files GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c75fa6bc62ede556194c9ad2f9074d735719ab86c8d656b27c335c7cd634293f
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