steipete/conduit-mcp ? reverse-engineered prompt

Build me an MCP server called conduit that lets my AI assistant safely work with files and web pages. I want it to be able to read files or URLs, turn webpage HTML into clean Markdown, get file metadata, compare two files, and write or update files too. It should also list folders, find files by name or content, copy, move, delete, create folders, and handle zip and tar archives. If possible, add image handling so it can read or compress images, and support batch operations so it can do several things at once.

Please make it respect an allowed paths setting so it only works inside folders I choose, and have good defaults and clear error messages. I’d like it set up so I can run it from a local script or through npx, with docs for how to configure it in an MCP client. If you need to, look up current docs online for any MCP details.