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Commonmark alternatives for AI agents.

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Highly-extensible PHP Markdown parser which fully supports the CommonMark and GFM specs.

100
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#1

Marked

Similarity 142Trust 85Excellent 100

A markdown parser and compiler. Built for speed.

37K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add markedjs/marked
#2

Typecho

Similarity 131Trust 88Excellent 100

A PHP Blogging Platform. Simple and Powerful.

12K starsJun 3, 2026 pushdocument-processingPHPMarkdown
$ npx skills add typecho/typecho
#3

Markdown It

Similarity 126Trust 90Excellent 100

Markdown parser, done right. 100% CommonMark support, extensions, syntax plugins & high speed

22K starsMay 26, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add markdown-it/markdown-it
#4

Vitepress

Similarity 126Trust 90Excellent 100

Vite & Vue powered static site generator.

18K starsJul 19, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add vuejs/vitepress
#5

Glow

Similarity 125Trust 83Excellent 100

Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz! 💅🏻

26K starsApr 26, 2026 pushdocument-processingGoMarkdown
$ npx skills add charmbracelet/glow
#6

Grav

Similarity 124Trust 89Excellent 100

Modern, Crazy Fast, Ridiculously Easy and Amazingly Powerful Flat-File CMS powered by PHP, Markdown, Twig, and Symfony

16K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingPHPMarkdown
$ npx skills add getgrav/grav
#7

Slidev

Similarity 119Trust 88Excellent 100

Presentation Slides for Developers

47K starsJun 3, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add slidevjs/slidev
#8

Gitbook

Similarity 119Trust 88Excellent 100

The open source frontend for GitBook doc sites

29K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add GitbookIO/gitbook
#9

Jekyll

Similarity 119Trust 87Excellent 100

:globe_with_meridians: Jekyll is a blog-aware static site generator in Ruby

51K starsApr 22, 2026 pushdocument-processingRubyMarkdown
$ npx skills add jekyll/jekyll
#10

Pandoc

Similarity 119Trust 87Excellent 100

Universal markup converter

45K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdocument-processingHaskellMarkdown
$ npx skills add jgm/pandoc
#11

Wiki

Similarity 118Trust 88Excellent 100

Wiki.js | A modern and powerful wiki app built on Node.js

28K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdocument-processingVueMarkdown
$ npx skills add requarks/wiki
#12

Mdx

Similarity 118Trust 88Excellent 100

Markdown for the component era

20K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add mdx-js/mdx
#13

Nextra

Similarity 118Trust 90Excellent 100

Simple, powerful and flexible site generation framework with everything you love from Next.js.

14K starsJun 8, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add shuding/nextra
#14

Obsidian Releases

Similarity 117Trust 85Excellent 100

Community plugins list, theme list, and releases of Obsidian.

19K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingMarkdown
$ npx skills add obsidianmd/obsidian-releases
#15

Emoji Cheat Sheet

Similarity 117Trust 88Excellent 100

A markdown version emoji cheat sheet

14K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add ikatyang/emoji-cheat-sheet
#16

Shiki

Similarity 117Trust 88Excellent 100

A beautiful yet powerful syntax highlighter

13K starsJun 4, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add shikijs/shiki

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