diff --git a/docsrc/cli.rst b/docsrc/cli.rst
index be222004..93e1d3b2 100644
--- a/docsrc/cli.rst
+++ b/docsrc/cli.rst
@@ -87,6 +87,10 @@ Option                                  Meaning
                                         * ``rockspec`` - globals allowed in rockspecs, by default added for files ending with ``.rockspec``;
                                         * ``luacheckrc`` - globals allowed in Luacheck configs, by default added for files ending with ``.luacheckrc``;
                                         * ``ldoc`` - globals allowed in LDoc config, by default added for files named ``config.ld``;
+                                        * ``pandoc`` - globals allowed in Pandoc Lua in any context;
+                                        * ``pandoc_filter`` - globals allowed in Pandoc Lua, subset specific to filters;
+                                        * ``pandoc_custom`` - globals allowed in Pandoc Lua, subset specific to custom reader/writers;
+                                        * ``pandoc_script`` - globals allowed in Pandoc Lua, subset specific to scripts;
                                         * ``sile`` - globals allowed in The SILE Typesetter and its package ecosystem;
                                         * ``none`` - no standard globals.
 
diff --git a/luacheck-dev-1.rockspec b/luacheck-dev-1.rockspec
index 0389dd14..6506e1a1 100644
--- a/luacheck-dev-1.rockspec
+++ b/luacheck-dev-1.rockspec
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ build = {
       ["luacheck.builtin_standards"] = "src/luacheck/builtin_standards/init.lua",
       ["luacheck.builtin_standards.love"] = "src/luacheck/builtin_standards/love.lua",
       ["luacheck.builtin_standards.minetest"] = "src/luacheck/builtin_standards/minetest.lua",
+      ["luacheck.builtin_standards.pandoc"] = "src/luacheck/builtin_standards/pandoc.lua",
       ["luacheck.builtin_standards.playdate"] = "src/luacheck/builtin_standards/playdate.lua",
       ["luacheck.builtin_standards.ngx"] = "src/luacheck/builtin_standards/ngx.lua",
       ["luacheck.cache"] = "src/luacheck/cache.lua",
diff --git a/src/luacheck/builtin_standards/init.lua b/src/luacheck/builtin_standards/init.lua
index 097fee2d..4aa202f5 100644
--- a/src/luacheck/builtin_standards/init.lua
+++ b/src/luacheck/builtin_standards/init.lua
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 local love = require "luacheck.builtin_standards.love"
 local minetest = require "luacheck.builtin_standards.minetest"
+local pandoc = require "luacheck.builtin_standards.pandoc"
 local playdate = require "luacheck.builtin_standards.playdate"
 local ngx = require "luacheck.builtin_standards.ngx"
 local standards = require "luacheck.standards"
@@ -344,6 +345,11 @@ builtin_standards.sile = {
    }
 }
 
+builtin_standards.pandoc = pandoc.pandoc
+builtin_standards.pandoc_filter = pandoc.filter
+builtin_standards.pandoc_custom = pandoc.custom
+builtin_standards.pandoc_script = pandoc.script
+
 builtin_standards.none = {}
 
 return builtin_standards
diff --git a/src/luacheck/builtin_standards/pandoc.lua b/src/luacheck/builtin_standards/pandoc.lua
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f640ea3e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/luacheck/builtin_standards/pandoc.lua
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+local add_std_table = require "luacheck.standards".add_std_table
+
+local function combine(...)
+   local res = {}
+   for _, def in ipairs({...}) do
+      add_std_table(res, def)
+   end
+   return res.fields
+end
+
+local common = {
+   read_globals = {
+      "PANDOC_VERSION", "PANDOC_API_VERSION", "PANDOC_STATE",
+      "pandoc", "lpeg", "re",
+   },
+   globals = {
+      -- document types
+      "Inlines", "Inline", "Blocks", "Block", "Meta", "Pandoc",
+      -- inline types
+      "Cite", "Code", "Emph", "Image", "LineBreak", "Link", "Math", "Note", "Quoted", "RawInline", "SmallCaps",
+      "SoftBreak", "Space", "Span", "Str", "Strikeout", "Strong", "Subscript", "Superscript", "Underline",
+      -- block types
+      "BlockQuote", "BulletList", "CodeBlock", "DefinitionList", "Div", "Figure", "Header", "HorizontalRule",
+      "LineBlock", "OrderedList", "Para", "Plain", "RawBlock", "Table",
+   },
+}
+
+-- https://pandoc.org/lua-filters.html
+local filter = {
+   read_globals = {
+      "FORMAT",
+      "PANDOC_READER_OPTIONS", "PANDOC_WRITER_OPTIONS", "PANDOC_SCRIPT_FILE",
+   },
+}
+
+-- https://pandoc.org/custom-readers.html
+-- https://pandoc.org/custom-writers.html
+local custom = {
+   globals = {
+      -- custom scope
+      "PANDOC_DOCUMENT",
+      "PANDOC_READER_OPTIONS", "PANDOC_WRITER_OPTIONS", "PANDOC_SCRIPT_FILE",
+      "ByteStringReader", "ByteStringWriter", "Doc", "Extensions", "Reader", "Template", "Writer",
+      -- extra types applicable to readers/writers
+      "Blocksep", "CaptionedImage", "DisplayMath", "DoubleQuoted", "InlineMath", "SingleQuoted",
+   },
+}
+
+local script = {
+   globals = {
+   }
+}
+
+local variants = {
+    pandoc = { globals = combine(common, filter, custom, script) },
+    filter = { globals = combine(common, filter) },
+    custom = { globals = combine(common, custom) },
+    script = { globals = combine(common, script) },
+}
+
+return variants