Word Documents

by anthropics

Word Documents is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by anthropics in skills.

168.6K stars20.1K forkson anthropics/skillsAdded 2026/08/13Repository updated 2026/08/07

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Install Word Documents

Copy Word Documents 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/anthropics/skills/tree/main/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/anthropics/skills.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/docx/SKILL.md in anthropics/skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/docx
Collection: One of 18 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1012 skills

What Word Documents does

Word Documents creates, edits, and analyzes .docx files and Word templates, handling formatting, tracked changes, and comments. Use it whenever a user needs to produce, read, or modify Word documents programmatically.

Word Documents is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Word Documents comes from a repository tagged agent-skills.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

DOCX creation, editing, and analysis

A .docx is a ZIP archive of XML files. Choose your approach by task:

Task	Approach
Create a new document	Write a `docx` (npm) script — see gotchas below
Edit an existing document	`unzip` → edit `word/document.xml` → `zip` (docx-js cannot open existing files)
Read content	`pandoc -t markdown file.docx`

Script paths below are relative to this skill's directory.

Creating with docx-js — gotchas

docx is preinstalled — do not run npm install first; write the script and require('docx') directly. Only if that require fails: npm install docx. The model knows the API; these are the footguns:

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

Frequently asked about Word Documents

What else does anthropics publish alongside Word Documents?
Word Documents is one of 18 skills that DirSkills catalogs from anthropics/skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Algorithmic Art, Brand Guidelines and Canvas Design. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Word Documents does, and is maintained by anthropics in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the anthropics/skills page.
How does Word Documents compare to other Writing skills?
Word Documents ranks #8 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 Word Documents against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.