markitdown

v1.6.0

Convert documents (PDF, DOCX, PPTX, images, etc.) to Markdown using MarkItDown MCP server

CodexClaude Code1 Skill1 MCP serverstdio

By MicrosoftLicense: MIT15 GitHub starsUpdated 2 hours ago

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Runtimes: Codex and Claude Code
Parsed components: 2 skill or MCP entries
Source updated: Sep 24, 2026
Manifest status: Canonical path parsed

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Install markitdown for Codex and Claude Code

Installs for the current user

codex plugin marketplace add pleaseai/claude-code-plugins
codex plugin marketplace upgrade pleaseai
codex plugin add markitdown@pleaseai

Paste and run these commands in a terminal with Codex. They add and refresh the pleaseai catalog, then install this plugin.

Compatibility: the page URL and API slug “markitdown” remain stable.

Codex: markitdown@agent-plugin-marketplace → markitdown@pleaseai

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Get the source manually

$ git clone https://github.com/pleaseai/claude-code-plugins

Clone the source repository, then follow its setup instructions to add the plugin to a compatible client. The plugin root is plugins/markitdown/.

Plugin files

plugins/markitdown/

├── .codex-plugin/plugin.json
├── .claude-plugin/plugin.json
├── skills/markitdown/SKILL.md
└── .mcp.json

Included Skills1

markitdownskills/markitdown/SKILL.md

Convert documents to Markdown using MarkItDown MCP tools. Use when the user wants to convert PDF, read PPTX, extract text from DOCX, convert document to markdown, or mentions .pdf/.docx/.pptx/.xlsx/.xls/.ppt/.doc files for reading or conversion. Triggers on phrases like "convert to markdown", "read this document", "extract text from", "parse this file" with binary document formats.

MCP servers1

markitdownstdio

command: uvx
args: markitdown-mcp

Plugin manifests2

plugins/markitdown/.codex-plugin/plugin.json

{
  "name": "markitdown",
  "version": "1.6.0",
  "description": "Convert documents (PDF, DOCX, PPTX, images, etc.) to Markdown using MarkItDown MCP server",
  "author": {
    "name": "Microsoft",
    "url": "https://github.com/microsoft"
  },
  "interface": {
    "displayName": "Markitdown",
    "shortDescription": "Convert documents (PDF, DOCX, PPTX, images, etc.) to Markdown using MarkItDown MCP server",
    "longDescription": "Convert documents (PDF, DOCX, PPTX, images, etc.) to Markdown using MarkItDown MCP server",
    "developerName": "Microsoft",
    "category": "Tooling",
    "capabilities": [
      "Tool"
    ],
    "defaultPrompt": [
      "Use Markitdown for my current task."
    ],
    "websiteURL": "https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown"
  },
  "homepage": "https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown",
  "repository": "https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": [
    "markitdown",
    "pdf",
    "docx",
    "pptx",
    "images",
    "markdown",
    "conversion"
  ],
  "mcpServers": "./.mcp.json"
}

plugins/markitdown/.claude-plugin/plugin.json

{
  "name": "markitdown",
  "version": "1.6.0",
  "description": "Convert documents (PDF, DOCX, PPTX, images, etc.) to Markdown using MarkItDown MCP server",
  "author": {
    "name": "Microsoft",
    "url": "https://github.com/microsoft"
  },
  "homepage": "https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown",
  "repository": "https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": [
    "markitdown",
    "pdf",
    "docx",
    "pptx",
    "images",
    "markdown",
    "conversion"
  ],
  "mcpServers": {
    "markitdown": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "markitdown-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}