Markdown Url

This one routes any URL through markdown.new to get a clean Markdown version of the page, which is surprisingly handy when you're asking Claude to read docs, blog posts, GitHub issues, or changelogs. Instead of parsing messy HTML, Claude fetches the Markdown-rendered version and can copy, quote, or summarize it directly. The skill is smart enough to skip the proxy for login pages, paywalls, and interactive dashboards where it would break things, and it falls back to the original URL if it hits a 403 or CAPTCHA. It's a small quality-of-life win that makes content extraction feel less like a scraping job.

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Install

$ npx -y skills add am-will/codex-skills --skill markdown-url --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

markdown.new URL Prefix

Whenever you need to visit a website URL, you must:

rewrite it to go through https://markdown.new/, then
visit the rewritten URL, and
pull the Markdown content from that page for use in your answer/notes.

Rewrite Rule

Normalize the destination into an absolute URL with a scheme (https:// preferred).
Prefix it with https://markdown.new/ (do not drop the original scheme).

Examples

https://example.com -> https://markdown.new/https://example.com
https://example.com/docs?a=1#b -> https://markdown.new/https://example.com/docs?a=1#b
example.com -> https://markdown.new/https://example.com

Agent Workflow (Required)

When you would normally open a website to read it:

Produce the rewritten markdown.new URL.
Visit the rewritten URL first (not the original), but only when it is likely to work (see Policy below).
Extract the page content from the Markdown view (the rendered Markdown and/or the raw Markdown).
Use that extracted Markdown as the source for summaries, quotes, checklists, or copy/pasteable notes.

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