Anthropic Word Skill

/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills
/plugin install document-skills@anthropic-agent-skills

What it does

Anthropic Word Skill is a document-processing agent skill from Anthropic's official skills repository that lets Claude create, edit and restructure Word documents with tracked changes and formatting. In this directory it maps to the draft-documents, rewrite-documents use case and is tracked for claude, claude-code. The source is a public GitHub repository, maintained by Anthropic. Maintenance, popularity, license and confidence signals are scored by rules; no hands-on testing has been performed, so this entry is a source-based profile, not a review.

• Creates professional .docx documents with headings, tables of contents, page numbers, letterheads, images, lists, and tables.
• Reads Word content through document conversion and restructures or replaces content in existing files.
• Supports comments and tracked-change workflows, including validation that edits were recorded under the intended author.
• Includes output verification steps that convert the document to PDF and inspect rendered pages.

Best uses

• Reports, memos, letters, templates, and other deliverables whose final format must be .docx.
• Editing an existing Word document while preserving or explicitly tracking changes.
• Document workflows that need repeatable formatting and a visual verification step.

Example tasks

• Create a formatted board memo with a title page, table of contents, page numbers, and branded header.
• Apply tracked revisions and comments to a contract, then produce a clean copy with changes accepted.
• Replace images and reorganize sections in an existing Word document while preserving its structure.

Prerequisites

• A Claude environment with document skill support and the required document-processing runtime available.
• For Claude Code, add Anthropic's skills marketplace and install the document-skills plugin.
• Use an actual .docx or .dotx file when the task involves reading or editing an existing document.

Limitations

• The source explicitly excludes PDFs, spreadsheets, Google Docs, and general coding tasks unrelated to Word output.
• Legacy .doc files need conversion before the documented editing workflow can operate on them.
• The documented JavaScript library creates new files but does not open existing DOCX files; existing-file edits use the underlying XML package.
• The document skills are source-available under Anthropic's terms, not Apache-2.0 open source.

Sources checked

• Official DOCX SKILL.md
• Anthropic skills installation guide

Why it is listed

• official Anthropic source
• source updated 4 days ago
• clear install or source hint
• license signal: Source-available

Score breakdown

Maintenance

30/30

Provenance

25/25

Popularity

20/20

Completeness

15/15

Hygiene

10/10

Before installing

This profile is generated from public source fields and rules. It is not a verdict, not a rating, and not a substitute for testing the skill in your own workflow.