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Claude skills for documents

Create and edit Word, PDF, PowerPoint and Excel files, plus writing and communication skills, starting with Anthropic's official document skills.

The best Claude skills for documents

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    PPTX

    Anthropic 187k

    Use this skill any time a .pptx or .potx file is involved in any way — as input, output, or both. This includes: creating slide decks, pitch decks, or presentations; reading, parsing, or extracting…

    npx skills add anthropics/skills --skill pptx
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    Research

    Matt Pocock 313k

    Investigate a question against high-trust primary sources and capture the findings as a Markdown file in the repo. Use when the user wants a topic researched, docs or API facts gathered, or reading…

    npx skills add mattpocock/skills --skill research
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    Teach

    Matt Pocock 313k

    Teach the user a new skill or concept, within this workspace.

    npx skills add mattpocock/skills --skill teach

All 20 documents skills

20 skills

PPTXTop pick

Use this skill any time a .pptx or .potx file is involved in any way — as input, output, or both. This includes: creating slide decks, pitch decks, or presentations; reading…

Docs & WritingAnthropic187k

Research

Investigate a question against high-trust primary sources and capture the findings as a Markdown file in the repo. Use when the user wants a topic researched, docs or API facts…

Docs & WritingMatt Pocock313k

Teach

Teach the user a new skill or concept, within this workspace.

Docs & WritingMatt Pocock313k

Writing For Agents

Writing documents for agents. Use when creating or editing skills, or modifying AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md.

Docs & WritingMatt Pocock313k

Doc Coauthoring

Guide users through a structured workflow for co-authoring documentation. Use when user wants to write documentation, proposals, technical specs, decision docs, or similar…

Docs & WritingAnthropic187k

DOCX

Use this skill whenever the user wants to create, read, edit, or manipulate Word documents (.docx files) or Word templates (.dotx files). Triggers include: any mention of 'Word…

Docs & WritingAnthropic187k

Internal Comms

A set of resources to help me write all kinds of internal communications, using the formats that my company likes to use. Claude should use this skill whenever asked to write some…

Docs & WritingAnthropic187k

PDF

Use this skill whenever the user wants to do anything with PDF files. This includes reading or extracting text/tables from PDFs, combining or merging multiple PDFs into one…

Docs & WritingAnthropic187k

XLSX

Use this skill any time a spreadsheet file is the primary input or output. This means any task where the user wants to: open, read, edit, or fix an existing .xlsx, .xlsm, .xltx…

Docs & WritingAnthropic187k

Writing Guidelines

Review docs/prose for Writing Guidelines compliance. Use when asked to "review my docs", "check writing style", "audit prose", "review docs voice and tone", or "check this page…

Docs & WritingVercel34k

Architecture Decision Records

Write and maintain Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) following best practices for technical decision documentation. Use when documenting significant technical decisions…

Docs & WritingSeth Hobson42k

Changelog Automation

Automate changelog generation from commits, PRs, and releases following Keep a Changelog format. Use when setting up release workflows, generating release notes, or standardizing…

Docs & WritingSeth Hobson42k

Grounded Vault

Use when maintaining a durable Markdown knowledge store that agents compile from sources, when every number or quote in a wiki page must trace back to an immutable source, or when…

Docs & WritingSeth Hobson42k

Hads

Use when writing technical documentation that needs to be readable by both humans and AI models, converting existing docs to HADS format, validating a HADS document, or optimizing…

Docs & WritingSeth Hobson42k

Postmortem Writing

Write effective blameless postmortems with root cause analysis, timelines, and action items. Use when conducting incident reviews, writing postmortem documents, or improving…

Docs & WritingSeth Hobson42k

PPTX Deck Context

Use when preparing the narrative, sources, and design context for a new editable PPTX deck.

Docs & WritingSeth Hobson42k

PPTX Quality Gates

Use when validating or repairing an editable PPTX deck for geometry, accessibility, native editability, source lineage, and OOXML package integrity.

Docs & WritingSeth Hobson42k

PPTX Reference Deck Analysis

Use when analyzing a reference PPTX for read-only structure, theme, typography, layout rhythm, diagnostics, derived template catalogs, or safe OOXML package inspection.

Docs & WritingSeth Hobson42k

PPTX Slide Specification

Use when authoring or repairing a coordinate-explicit JSON specification for an editable PPTX deck.

Docs & WritingSeth Hobson42k

PPTX Visual Assets

Use when selecting and placing approved supporting icons, images, SVGs, diagrams, or infographics in an editable PPTX deck.

Docs & WritingSeth Hobson42k

About these documents skills

Anthropic's docx, pptx, xlsx and pdf skills power Claude's own file creation, and they're open source. Install them in Claude Code to generate reports, decks and spreadsheets from your terminal.

Writing skills round out the list: editing for clarity, internal comms, documentation and research write-ups.

This page collects every skill in the directory that covers documents: 20 from 4 publishers, including official skills from Anthropic and Vercel. Each one links back to its original GitHub repository, so you always get the author's latest version.

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Questions about Claude skills for documents

What is the best Claude skill for documents?

Our top pick is PPTX by Anthropic, from a repository with 187k GitHub stars. Research and Teach round out the top three. Skills are ranked by the popularity of their source repository, with hand-picked favorites first, and official skills from Anthropic and Vercel carry a badge.

How do I install a Claude skill for documents?

Open a skill's page and run its install command in your project folder, for example npx skills add anthropics/skills --skill pptx. You can also download any skill as a ZIP and add it to Claude Code or upload it to the Claude app.

The install guide walks through every method.

Are Claude skills for documents free?

Yes. All 20 skills on this page are open source and free to use, and most are MIT licensed. You need a Claude plan that supports skills, or a coding agent that reads SKILL.md files.

Do these skills work in Claude Code and the Claude app?

Yes. A skill is a folder with a SKILL.md file, and the same folder works in Claude Code, the Claude desktop and web apps (on paid plans with code execution turned on) and the Claude API. Many also work in other agents that support the Agent Skills format, such as Cursor and OpenAI Codex. Skills that ship scripts need somewhere Claude can run code.

How many Claude skills for documents are there?

We list 20 from 4 publishers, last updated November 4, 2026. The list refreshes from GitHub as publishers release new skills.

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