Defuddle

Defuddle gives compatible agents a practical workflow for turning conventional webpages into cleaner working material. Rather than loading an entire page with menus, promotions, sidebars, and layout markup, the agent can use the Defuddle CLI to obtain a more focused representation for reading, analysis, or later writing.

Highlights

• Produces Markdown that is convenient for agent context and note-taking workflows
• Supports structured output when both processed HTML and Markdown are useful
• Retrieves individual metadata fields such as a page title, summary, or domain
• Can write extracted content directly to a local file for continued processing
• Defines a narrow workflow for normal web documents while leaving existing Markdown files untouched

This skill is useful for researchers, writers, documentation teams, and anyone building knowledge collections from public webpages. It is especially relevant when repeated navigation and advertising elements consume unnecessary context. The skill folder contains only its SKILL.md and depends on the separately installed Defuddle CLI rather than bundled helper scripts. Install it from the kepano Obsidian skills repository with the npx skills command.