microsoft/markitdown
MIT🎖️ 🐍 🏠 - MCP tool access to MarkItDown -- a library that converts many file formats (local or remote) to Markdown for LLM consumption.
Install
npx -y microsoft-markitdownclaude_desktop_config.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"microsoft-markitdown": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"microsoft-markitdown"
]
}
}
}Add this to your Claude Desktop config file. Find it at ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json on macOS.
What this does
microsoft/markitdown exposes a set of tools to Claude over the Model Context Protocol. After you add it to claude_desktop_config.json (snippet above) and restart Claude Desktop, those tools become callable inside any conversation. That makes it useful when you want Claude to reach into your team's communication channels without copy-pasting context every turn.
Common use cases
- •Read recent threads, channels, or DMs to summarize team activity
- •Send messages, replies, or status updates as part of a workflow
- •Bring stakeholder context into a Claude conversation without copy-paste
More Python MCP servers
mindsdb/mindsdb
Connect and unify data across various platforms and databases with .
FastMCP
🐍 - A high-level framework for building MCP servers in Python
oraios/serena
🐍 🏠 - A fully-featured coding agent that relies on symbolic code operations by using language servers.
Python MCP SDK
The official Python SDK for Model Context Protocol servers and clients