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Skills documents Anthropic (docx, xlsx, pptx, pdf)

Skill : A reusable method: instructions, procedures, sometimes scripts or templates · requires claude-code

The four official skills for reading, creating and editing Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF files from Claude.

The most reliable document building block; source-available, and it reads and writes your files, hence the orange badge.

Official site GitHub · 183,547 ★
Overall score
8.0 /10
Security: one caveat, see the card
Utility
8.0
Reliability
10.0
Security
One caveat
Ease
1 click · Beginner

Security reflects where data goes, requested permissions and incidents on record at the verification date. It is not a guarantee of zero risk: check the deployment mode and the connections you enable.

What it does, concretely

Working with Word, Excel, PowerPoint or PDF files from an AI agent requires precise, repeatable instructions. These four official Anthropic skills address this need by teaching Claude how to read, create and modify each of these formats in a structured way.

Each skill is a self-contained folder containing a SKILL.md file with instructions and metadata. Once installed via Claude Code, they activate automatically as soon as you mention a document-related task: extracting fields from a PDF, generating an Excel table, formatting a PowerPoint presentation or drafting a Word document.

These skills are aimed at developers and advanced users working in Claude Code who want to automate repetitive document tasks, or who want to understand how to build their own complex skills using a production example as a reference.

They are not suited to someone looking for a simple graphical interface or who is not comfortable with a command-line environment. The behaviours obtained may also differ from what the instruction files describe, as the GitHub repository explicitly notes.

What it offers

  • ·Reading and creating Word files (.docx) directly from the Claude agent.
  • ·Reading and creating Excel files (.xlsx) with support for tabular data.
  • ·Reading and creating PowerPoint presentations (.pptx) from the agent environment.
  • ·Extracting and manipulating PDF files (.pdf), including retrieval of form fields.
  • ·One-command installation via the Claude Code plugin marketplace.
  • ·Also available on Claude.ai for paid plans, and via the Claude API. (paid)
  • ·Source code viewable on GitHub, usable as a reference for building more complex custom skills.

In practice

Price
Free
Commercial use
Commercial use: yes
Available on
claude-code
Host
claude-code
Licence
source-available
FR interface
No

Security and data

Rating
Security: one caveat, see the card
Your data
Data stays local
Maintenance
Active

Links and repository checked on 25 October 2026 · added on 1 October 2025

How to install Skills documents Anthropic (docx, xlsx, pptx, pdf)

1. Open Claude Code in your terminal. 2. Add the official marketplace: /plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills 3. Install the document skills: /plugin install document-skills@anthropic-agent-skills 4. Verify the installation by asking Claude Code to perform a task on a file, for example: "Use the PDF skill to extract the fields from this form." 5. Caution: these skills read and write files in the agent environment; make sure the files being processed do not contain sensitive data before starting a task.
/plugin install document-skills@anthropic-agent-skills

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