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by Matthew Blodemblode/agent-skills134 stars
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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.

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Use this Skill: https://skilld.dev/gh/mblode/agent-skills/save-md

This session only. Nothing lands on disk.

SKILL.md

≈78 tokens always: the name and description. ≈452 when used: this file. ≈3k more on demand in 2 files.

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:

---
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/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.

Source: SKILL.md on GitHub

Third-party checks

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  • Gen Agent Trust Hub7d

    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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  • Snyk7d

    Risk: MEDIUM · 2 issues

Provenance

Signed by skilld at 9c3211e. This ties the file your Agent reads to that commit on GitHub. It does not review the instructions.

Last checked against GitHub yesterday.

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