document-skills

Create and edit Office documents and PDFs with Claude.

Overview

Capabilities

Excel (xlsx)

• Create spreadsheets from scratch
• Add formulas and calculations
• Charts and data visualization
• Formatting and styling
• Data analysis

Word (docx)

• Create/edit documents
• Tracked changes support
• Comments and annotations
• Formatting preservation
• Template-based creation

PowerPoint (pptx)

• Create presentations from scratch
• Use templates
• Add slides, images, charts
• Speaker notes
• Layout customization

PDF

• Extract text and tables
• Read metadata
• Merge and split documents
• Annotate PDFs

Installation

Via Installer

./install.sh        # Fresh install
./install.sh --add  # Add to existing

Select “document-skills” in the External Plugins section.

Manual

# Add marketplace
claude plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills
 
# Install plugin
claude plugin install document-skills@anthropic-agent-skills

Usage Examples

"Create a PowerPoint about our Q4 results"
"Edit this Word document and track changes"
"Extract tables from this PDF"
"Create an Excel spreadsheet with sales data and charts"
"Merge these three PDFs into one"

When to Use

Use document-skills when you need to:

• Create Office documents programmatically
• Edit existing documents while preserving formatting
• Work with tracked changes in Word
• Extract structured data from PDFs
• Generate reports and presentations

vs pdf-reader MCP

If you only need to read PDFs, the pdf-reader MCP server is sufficient. Use document-skills for creating/editing documents.