save-md
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.
How do I install this agent skill?
npx skills add https://github.com/mblode/agent-skills --skill save-mdIs this agent skill safe to install?
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The skill is a tool for saving web and media content to Markdown files with integrated provenance. It implements several security best practices, including explicit warnings against sending private data to third-party services, providing metadata boundaries for saved files, and including evaluation tests to ensure shell variables are not expanded during extraction.
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Risk: MEDIUM · 2 issues
What does this agent skill do?
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
.mdin 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:
---
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.
| File | Read when |
|---|---|
references/source-endpoints.md | Always, 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/markdownunder 100K characters passes through intact. - oEmbed, GitHub
?raw=true, and Drive downloads redirect across hosts. Without-Lyou save an empty 301. - YouTube's "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot" is an IP block:
--cookies-from-browseron a laptop, stop in a sandbox. The description is not the talk. - An empty
.mdnext 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.
How can the creator link this skill?
Add the canonical catalog link to the repository README so users can inspect current installs and available audits. The publishing guide covers the complete discovery path.
<a href="https://skillzs.dev/skills/mblode/agent-skills/save-md">View save-md on skillZs</a>