DocVQA

by microsoft

DocVQA is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by microsoft in SkillOpt.

16K stars1.5K forkson microsoft/SkillOptAdded 2026/08/14Repository updated 2026/08/13

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Install DocVQA

Copy DocVQA into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/microsoft/SkillOpt/tree/main/ckpt/docvqa ~/.claude/skills/docvqa

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/microsoft/SkillOpt.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: ckpt/docvqa/gpt5.5_skill.md in microsoft/SkillOpt
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/docvqa
Collection: One of 12 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What DocVQA does

DocVQA guides an agent to extract exact, evidence-backed answers from document images, tables, forms, and handwriting. Use it when answering visual document questions where precision and exact text spans matter.

DocVQA is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. DocVQA comes from a repository tagged agent-skills and self-evolving-agents.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

DocVQA Skill

Visual Evidence Discipline

Read the document carefully before answering.
Prefer the smallest exact text span that answers the question.
For questions asking for a value, count, page number, date, or graph reading, return only the requested value span; omit nearby labels, category names, units, or explanatory words unless the question explicitly asks for them.
When several nearby strings look similar, choose the one whose surrounding labels or layout best match the question.

Exact Answer Discipline

Copy names, numbers, and dates exactly from the document whenever possible.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about DocVQA

What else does microsoft publish alongside DocVQA?
DocVQA is one of 12 skills that DirSkills catalogs from microsoft/SkillOpt, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include ALFWorld Embodied Agent, Document Rewriter and Live Mathematical MCQ Heuristics. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way DocVQA does, and is maintained by microsoft in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the microsoft/SkillOpt page.
How does DocVQA compare to other AI Engineering skills?
DocVQA ranks #278 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of DocVQA against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.