Filesystem (reference server)
File systemsRead, write and search files inside folders you allow
- Stars
- ★ 91.4k
- Licence
- Apache-2.0 / MIT (MCP licence transition)
- Updated
- MCP server
- Official
Convert PDFs, Office files and more to Markdown
From GitHub, fetched 19 Oct 2026. Stars are for the whole repository; the last-update date is for this folder.
Microsoft's MarkItDown tool as an MCP server: give it a file or URL and it returns Markdown the model can read. Stars shown are for the whole MarkItDown repository.
| Runs as | Local |
|---|---|
| Type | MCP server |
| Maintained by | Official |
| Install | PyPI: markitdown-mcp |
Sources: github.com/microsoft/markitdown/tree/main/packages/markitdown-mcp, checked 19 Oct 2026. “Runs as” is from this listing. Blank means we haven't found it in official docs yet, not that it's unsupported.
Read, write and search files inside folders you allow
Convert PDFs, images, audio, web pages and Office files to Markdown
A Go take on secure local file access