What problem does it solve? Local documents like PDFs, DOCX files, and spreadsheets are hard to read directly in an AI workflow, and dumping their raw content into context can be overwhelming. This Skill converts them into clean markdown files on disk so you can inspect, summarize, or query them incrementally. ## Core Features & Use Cases - File-to-Markdown Conversion: Parse PDF, DOCX, DOC, ODT, RTF, XLSX, XLS, and HTML files into markdown saved under .firecrawl/. - AI Summaries and Q&A: Generate a summary with -S or ask a specific question with -Q and save the answer to a file. - Context-Safe Output: Writes results to disk instead of stdout, so large documents never blow up the context window; read them back with head, grep, or rg. - Use Case: You receive a 200-page research paper as a PDF. Parse it to .firecrawl/paper.md, then ask "What are the main conclusions?" and read only the answer file. ## Quick Start Ask the AI to parse a local file such as ./report.pdf into markdown saved under .firecrawl/ using the firecrawl parse command, then inspect the output with bounded reads.
