converting-files

Convert a file from one format to another inside the Claude.ai container —
documents, images, audio, video — by routing to the right engine among
pandoc, libreoffice (headless), ImageMagick, and ffmpeg.

The value is the routing, not the subprocess call: pandoc mangles a real
.docx into PDF (LibreOffice is the tool); pandoc is better than LibreOffice
from markup; mp4 → gif is an ffmpeg job, not ImageMagick. scripts/convert.py
is a dispatcher that picks the engine by format pair.

# Confirm the route without running anything:
python3 scripts/convert.py --plan in.docx out.pdf

# Convert:
python3 scripts/convert.py in.docx out.pdf      # LibreOffice
python3 scripts/convert.py notes.md notes.docx  # pandoc
python3 scripts/convert.py clip.mp4 clip.gif    # ffmpeg

Full routing table, batch usage, engine-flag passthrough, and the gotchas that
cost a re-run (LibreOffice naming, headless single-instance, markup→jira
anchors, IM6 policy) live in SKILL.md. Version history in
CHANGELOG.md.

Why not VERT (or any web converter)

VERT (vert.sh) is a Svelte/WASM browser app wrapping these same engines for a
human at a tab who wants local privacy — no importable CLI or library. In the
container the native binaries are already present with full filesystem access
and no browser memory ceiling, so they're strictly faster and more capable for
programmatic use. This skill is the in-container equivalent of what VERT does in
a tab.

Skill folder: converting-files

Release of converting-files version 0.1.1

📥 Download & Install

⬇️ Download converting-files.zip

To install:

1. Click the download link above (ignore the "Source code" archives below - they're auto-generated by GitHub)
2. Go to Claude.ai Skills Settings
3. Upload the downloaded ZIP file
4. Requires paid Claude Pro or Team account

See official documentation for more details.

Recent Changes

d2c5a9e converting-files: add README + bump to 0.1.1 (missing from #704 merge) (#706)
dc2e1de docs: Update CHANGELOG.md for released skills