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anymd is an MCP server that adds productivity tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Any file → clean Markdown for AI agents: PDF, Office, EPUB, HTML, images, audio/video. It has 1,026 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with npx -y @sylphx/anymd.

github.com/SylphxAI/anymd (opens in a new tab)

Install anymd

Generated from the server's MCP registry entry. Replace your-value with your own values.

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "anymd": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@sylphx/anymd"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport stdio anymd -- npx -y @sylphx/anymd

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "anymd": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@sylphx/anymd"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "anymd": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@sylphx/anymd"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

About anymd

PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, EPUB, HTML and web pages, images (OCR), audio and video (metadata, subtitles, transcripts). A fast Rust MCP server and CLI that runs on your machine. No API key.

  • mcp
  • model-context-protocol
  • ocr
  • rag
  • rust
  • ai-agents
  • cli
  • docx
  • epub
  • html-to-markdown

FAQ

anymd FAQ

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What is anymd?

anymd is an MCP server that adds productivity tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Any file → clean Markdown for AI agents: PDF, Office, EPUB, HTML, images, audio/video. It has 1,026 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with npx -y @sylphx/anymd. The source code is at github.com/SylphxAI/anymd.

How do I install the anymd MCP server?

Add the command npx -y @sylphx/anymd to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.

Is anymd free?

The server is open source under the MIT license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.

Is anymd actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 6, 2026. The latest release is v8.5.1, published Oct 2, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months and re-checks every server daily.