Open Knowledge
ojowwalker77/BonsAI
Authoritative agent-runtime contract for working inside an OpenKnowledge project — a markdown-CRDT knowledge base exposed over MCP.
Fetch a web page (URL) and return clean Markdown via local trafilatura, with Exa MCP as a fallback for JS-rendered or anti-bot pages.
$ npx skills add CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development --skill fetch-url-as-markdown -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development fetch-url-as-markdown --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/fetch-url-as-markdown .claude/skills/fetch-url-as-markdown && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "fetch-url-as-markdown" agent skill from https://github.com/CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development/tree/main/skills/fetch-url-as-markdown into .claude/skills/fetch-url-as-markdown/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "fetch-url-as-markdown", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development/tree/main/skills/fetch-url-as-markdownType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development --skill fetch-url-as-markdown -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development fetch-url-as-markdown --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/fetch-url-as-markdown .agents/skills/fetch-url-as-markdown && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "fetch-url-as-markdown" agent skill from https://github.com/CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development/tree/main/skills/fetch-url-as-markdown into .agents/skills/fetch-url-as-markdown/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "fetch-url-as-markdown", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development --skill fetch-url-as-markdown -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development fetch-url-as-markdown --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/fetch-url-as-markdown .cursor/skills/fetch-url-as-markdown && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "fetch-url-as-markdown" agent skill from https://github.com/CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development/tree/main/skills/fetch-url-as-markdown into .cursor/skills/fetch-url-as-markdown/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "fetch-url-as-markdown", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development.git --path skills/fetch-url-as-markdown--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development --skill fetch-url-as-markdown -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development fetch-url-as-markdown --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/fetch-url-as-markdown .gemini/skills/fetch-url-as-markdown && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "fetch-url-as-markdown" agent skill from https://github.com/CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development/tree/main/skills/fetch-url-as-markdown into .gemini/skills/fetch-url-as-markdown/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "fetch-url-as-markdown", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development fetch-url-as-markdownInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development --skill fetch-url-as-markdown -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/fetch-url-as-markdown .github/skills/fetch-url-as-markdown && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "fetch-url-as-markdown" agent skill from https://github.com/CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development/tree/main/skills/fetch-url-as-markdown into .github/skills/fetch-url-as-markdown/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "fetch-url-as-markdown", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development --skill fetch-url-as-markdown -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development fetch-url-as-markdown --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/fetch-url-as-markdown .opencode/skills/fetch-url-as-markdown && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "fetch-url-as-markdown" agent skill from https://github.com/CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development/tree/main/skills/fetch-url-as-markdown into .opencode/skills/fetch-url-as-markdown/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "fetch-url-as-markdown", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
fetch-url-as-markdownFetch a web page (URL) and return clean Markdown via local trafilatura, with Exa MCP as a fallback for JS-rendered or anti-bot pages.
Fetch URL As Markdown is an agent skill from CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development. Fetch a web page (URL) and return clean Markdown via local trafilatura, with Exa MCP as a fallback for JS-rendered or anti-bot pages. Use when the user asks to read, fetch, scrape, summarize, or quote a URL — prefer this over the built-in WebFetch tool. Don't use for binary files (PDFs, images, archives) or for fetching API/JSON endpoints.
Its SKILL.md is about 910 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 4 other files, including scripts (for example `README.md` and `scripts/fetch_url.py`).
It sits in Documents & Office, covering Markdown and Web scraping. It works with Model Context Protocol. The repository describes itself as: Practices, protocols, and skills for AI-driven software development. Skills and safety hooks for Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor, Antigravity, and any agent supporting the… The licence is MIT.
3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 25b7b1d. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Ships 2 files in scripts/ (Python), which the agent can run.
Shell commands in SKILL.md call:
python3From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Fetch URL As Markdown loads about 906 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 91 tokens; SKILL.md has 308 words of instructions outside code blocks.
Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.
The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.
Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.
The full file from CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development at commit 25b7b1d, republished under its MIT licence (© CodeAlive-AI). 308 words, ~906 tokens.
.claude/skills/fetch-url-as-markdown/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 3 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.Fetch any web URL and get clean, readable Markdown — main content only, no navigation/footer/ads. Local + free by default; smart fallback to Exa MCP when the page can't be extracted locally.
Try trafilatura first:
python3 ~/.claude/skills/fetch-url-as-markdown/scripts/fetch_url.py "<URL>"If exit code is 1 or 2 → fall back to Exa MCP with the same URL:
mcp__exa__web_search_advanced_exa(
query="<URL>",
includeDomains=["<host of URL>"],
numResults=1,
textMaxCharacters=50000,
type="auto"
)(mcp__exa__crawling works too if the server exposes it; the web_search_advanced_exa
call above is the always-available variant — pin the host with includeDomains and
use the URL itself as the query.)
Exit code 3 means trafilatura is not installed — install once:
python3 -m pip install --break-system-packages trafilatura| Code | Meaning | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | Markdown printed to stdout | done |
| 1 | DownloadError — network/HTTP/timeout/anti-bot block at fetch | fall back to Exa |
| 2 | ExtractionError — empty extract, JS/Cloudflare wall, or stub body (<200 chars) | fall back to Exa |
| 3 | trafilatura missing | install (see above), then retry |
| 4 | UnsupportedContentTypeError — URL is binary (PDF, image, archive) | don't fall back to Exa; use the right specialized skill (e.g. pdf for PDFs) |
output_format="markdown", include_formatting=True — keeps headings/lists/code structure where the source HTML uses real <h1..h6> etc.include_links=True, include_tables=Truewith_metadata=True → emits a YAML frontmatter (title, author, date, url, hostname)favor_recall=True, deduplicate=True — readable but trims duplicatesscripts/settings.cfgContent-Type other than text/html|application/xhtml+xml|text/plain|application/xml|text/xml → exit 42--min-body N, 0 to disable) → exit 2... fetch_url.py "<URL>" --no-links # strip hyperlinks
... fetch_url.py "<URL>" --no-tables # strip tables
... fetch_url.py "<URL>" --no-metadata # omit YAML header
... fetch_url.py "<URL>" --comments # include user comments (off by default — usually noise)
... fetch_url.py "<URL>" --images # include image refs (experimental)
... fetch_url.py "<URL>" --precision # terser output, drops borderline content| Situation | Tool |
|---|---|
| Article, blog post, docs, README, wiki | trafilatura (default) — local, free |
| JS-heavy SPA, login-walled, Cloudflare | Exa fallback (the script will signal exit 2) |
| Bulk / many URLs | trafilatura — no quota, no API key |
| Already failed twice on a domain | Exa directly |
© CodeAlive-AI, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file
SKILL.md and 3 other files (scripts) in skills/fetch-url-as-markdown of CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 25b7b1d
Fetch URL As Markdown next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fetch URL As Markdown this skillCodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development | 155 | — | ~906 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Open Knowledgeojowwalker77/BonsAI | 145 | — | ~5.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Web Article Extractordongbeixiaohuo/writing-agent | 435 | — | ~740 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Gdoc To Markdowniurykrieger/claude-bedrock | 105 | 1 repos | ~3.8k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | |
| Adk Docs WriterBrainDAO/adk-ts | 119 | — | ~4.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Email Formattingprovos/ironcurtain | 613 | — | ~518 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 |
ojowwalker77/BonsAI
Authoritative agent-runtime contract for working inside an OpenKnowledge project — a markdown-CRDT knowledge base exposed over MCP.
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Manage hooks and automation for coding agents (Claude Code, Codex CLI, OpenCode, Devin CLI/Desktop).
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Fetch a web page (URL) and return clean Markdown via local trafilatura, with Exa MCP as a fallback for JS-rendered or anti-bot pages. Fetch URL As Markdown is an agent skill from CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development. Fetch a web page (URL) and return clean Markdown via local trafilatura, with Exa MCP as a fallback for JS-rendered or anti-bot pages.
Fetch URL As Markdown fits situations like: the user asks to read; quote a URL — prefer this over the built-in WebFetch tool; binary files (PDFs; for fetching API/JSON endpoints.
Run `npx skills add CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development --skill fetch-url-as-markdown -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/fetch-url-as-markdown in CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development) into .claude/skills/fetch-url-as-markdown in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
Run `npx skills add CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development --skill fetch-url-as-markdown -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/fetch-url-as-markdown in CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development) into .agents/skills/fetch-url-as-markdown in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development --skill fetch-url-as-markdown -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/fetch-url-as-markdown, .gemini/skills/fetch-url-as-markdown, .github/skills/fetch-url-as-markdown and .opencode/skills/fetch-url-as-markdown in your project.
Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Fetch URL As Markdown needs Python for the scripts in its folder and the command-line tools its instructions call (python3). Our summary lists: Python 3.
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.
Fetch URL As Markdown is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
About 906 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.6k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Fetch URL As Markdown: Open Knowledge (ojowwalker77/BonsAI, 145 stars), Web Article Extractor (dongbeixiaohuo/writing-agent, 435 stars), Gdoc To Markdown (iurykrieger/claude-bedrock, 105 stars) and Adk Docs Writer (BrainDAO/adk-ts, 119 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
CodeAlive-AI (a GitHub organization) maintains it in CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development, which has 155 GitHub stars. The repository holds 22 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 6, 2026.
Source: CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.