Docx

Docx is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by OpenCoworkAI in open-cowork.

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Install Docx

Copy Docx 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/OpenCoworkAI/open-cowork/tree/main/.claude/skills/docx ~/.claude/skills/docx

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/OpenCoworkAI/open-cowork.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: .claude/skills/docx/SKILL.md in OpenCoworkAI/open-cowork
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/docx
Collection: One of 5 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1012 skills

What Docx does

Docx creates, edits, and analyzes .docx files with support for tracked changes, comments, formatting preservation, and text extraction. Use it when you need to generate or modify professional Word documents.

Docx is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Docx comes from a repository tagged ai-agent, ai-coding, ai-tools, anthropic and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Task	Approach
Read/analyze content	`pandoc` or unpack for raw XML
Create new document	Use `docx-js` - see Creating New Documents below
Edit existing document	Unpack → edit XML → repack - see Editing Existing Documents below

Reading Content

# Text extraction with tracked changes
pandoc --track-changes=all document.docx -o output.md

# Raw XML access
python3 scripts/unpack.py document.docx unpacked/

Converting to Images

soffice --headless --convert-to pdf document.docx
pdftoppm -jpeg -r 150 document.pdf page

Creating New Documents

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

Frequently asked about Docx

What else does OpenCoworkAI publish alongside Docx?
Docx is one of 5 skills that DirSkills catalogs from OpenCoworkAI/open-cowork, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include PDF Processing, PowerPoint and Skill Creator. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Docx does, and is maintained by OpenCoworkAI in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the OpenCoworkAI/open-cowork page.
How does Docx compare to other Writing skills?
Docx ranks #277 by stars among the 1012 Writing skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Article Writing, Social Media Content Calendar and Knowledge Comic Creator. 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 Docx against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.