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Agent skill

Save Md

by mblode in mblode/agent-skills

Saves a named source to Markdown with provenance and faithful extraction through direct export endpoints.

MITAuto-check passedDocuments & Office

Install Save Md

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mblode/agent-skills --skill save-md -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mblode/agent-skills save-md --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mblode/agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/save-md .claude/skills/save-md && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.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/

Facts

Skill name
save-md
GitHub stars
143
Token cost
~537 tokens
SKILL.md length
258 words
Files
3 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
28
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Saves a named source to Markdown with provenance and faithful extraction through direct export endpoints.

  • Asked to save this article
  • SKILL.md covers Done and Gotchas
  • Calls curl
  • Get the markdown

What it does

Save Md is an agent skill from mblode/agent-skills. Saves a named source to Markdown with provenance and faithful extraction through direct export endpoints. Use when asked to "save this article", "get the markdown", "transcribe this", or "keep this source". A URL supplied as task context alone does not trigger conversion; a chat summary stays in chat.

Its SKILL.md is about 540 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 4 other files, including reference files (for example `evals/evals.json` and `references/source-endpoints.md`).

It sits in Documents & Office, covering Transcription and Markdown. The repository describes itself as: Nobody ships AI slop on purpose. These skills make sure you don’t. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Asked to save this article
  • Get the markdown
  • Transcribe this
  • Keep this source

Example prompts

  • “save this article”
  • “get the markdown”
  • “transcribe this”
  • “/save-md”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit cef4cfa. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    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.

  • Runs code

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • curl

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use curl, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Save Md loads about 537 tokens when it runs, and up to ~3.2k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 78 tokens; SKILL.md has 258 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~78
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~537
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~3.2k

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.

Safety

Auto-check passed

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); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from mblode/agent-skills at commit cef4cfa, republished under its MIT licence (© mblode). 258 words, ~537 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/save-md/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 2 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
save-md
description
Saves a named source to Markdown with provenance and faithful extraction through direct export endpoints. Use when asked to "save this article", "get the markdown", "transcribe this", or "keep this source". A URL supplied as task context alone does not trigger conversion; a chat summary stays in chat.

Save as Markdown

Write the named source to a .md file, in full, and say where it is. The body comes from the fetched bytes, never from a summary.

  • IS: one named source (URL, attachment, paste, YouTube video, Google Doc, PDF) to one .md in the user's tree.
  • IS NOT: answering from a fetch, summarizing into chat, crawling beyond the URLs named, or reconstructing a talk from memory.

Done

A .md exists where the user can open it, with this frontmatter, and reading it back returns the source's last paragraph:

yaml
---
title: "<title>"
source: "<URL or path>"
date: "<date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ, run now>"
type: web | youtube | gdoc | sheet | slides | pdf | docx | tweet | conversation
---

Fetch with curl -sSL -o <file> <url> and read the file. Prefer a text endpoint over HTML chrome. A missing file with a named reason (paywall, login wall, bot check, private doc) beats a plausible one.

FileRead when
references/source-endpoints.mdAlways, for the URL's host: the tested endpoint, its curl line, the failure each one shows, and the opt-in fallback reader

Gotchas

  • WebFetch hands the page to a small model and returns its answer: a 1,200-word post came back as 120 words. Only Content-Type: text/markdown under 100K characters passes through intact.
  • oEmbed, GitHub ?raw=true, and Drive downloads redirect across hosts. Without -L you save an empty 301.
  • YouTube's "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot" is an IP block: --cookies-from-browser on a laptop, stop in a sandbox. The description is not the talk.
  • An empty .md next to a large PDF means a scan, not a blank document: render the pages and read them.

Maintenance only: evals/evals.json holds scenarios and routing prompts for anyone changing this skill.

© mblode, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files (references) in skills/save-md of mblode/agent-skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • evals/evals.json
  • references/source-endpoints.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit cef4cfa

Compare with similar skills

Save Md 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.

Save Md compared with similar skills
SkillStarsUsed inTokensAuto-checkLicenceRepo updated
Save Md this skillmblode/agent-skills143—~537Automated safety check: PassMIT
Youtube Notetakersickn33/agentic-awesome-skills47k1 repos~2.3kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Multimodal Extractionswyxio/skills175—~922Automated safety check: PassMIT
MarkitdownImCa0/just-laws78114 repos~3.2kAutomated safety check: NotesMIT
Lt2mdlibnyx/LT2MD109—~4.4kAutomated safety check: PassAGPL-3.0
Markdown Converterintellectronica/agent-skills2954 repos~492Automated safety check: PassCC0-1.0

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Categories

Questions about Save Md

What does Save Md do?

Saves a named source to Markdown with provenance and faithful extraction through direct export endpoints. Save Md is an agent skill from mblode/agent-skills. Saves a named source to Markdown with provenance and faithful extraction through direct export endpoints.

When should I use Save Md?

Save Md fits situations like: asked to save this article; get the markdown; transcribe this; keep this source.

How do I install Save Md in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add mblode/agent-skills --skill save-md -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/save-md in mblode/agent-skills) into .claude/skills/save-md in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Save Md in Codex?

Run `npx skills add mblode/agent-skills --skill save-md -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/save-md in mblode/agent-skills) into .agents/skills/save-md in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Save Md in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add mblode/agent-skills --skill save-md -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/save-md, .gemini/skills/save-md, .github/skills/save-md and .opencode/skills/save-md in your project.

What does Save Md need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Save Md needs the command-line tools its instructions call (curl).

Does Save Md access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Its commands use curl, which can reach the network depending on how they are called. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Save Md safe to install?

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. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Save Md use?

Save Md is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Save Md use?

About 537 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.1k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 2.7k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Save Md?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Save Md: Youtube Notetaker (sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills, 47k stars), Multimodal Extraction (swyxio/skills, 175 stars), Markitdown (ImCa0/just-laws, 781 stars) and Lt2md (libnyx/LT2MD, 109 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Save Md?

mblode (a GitHub user) maintains it in mblode/agent-skills, which has 143 GitHub stars. The repository holds 28 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 6, 2026.

Source: mblode/agent-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.