Best Claude skills for PDF, Word and Excel documents
Document skills let your agent read and produce real files: PDFs with forms, Word documents with tracked changes, Excel workbooks with formulas and PowerPoint decks. Anthropic's own docx, pdf, pptx and xlsx skills power file creation in Claude and are open source.
82 documents skills · ranked live · November 2026
The top 10. Ranked by the Alyn Score.
- 1#1
Anthropic
Skills
Anthropic
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 doc', 'word…
192k3.8MScore 93 - 2#2
Anthropic
Skills
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, splitting PDFs…
192k3.8MScore 91 - 3#3
Anthropic
Skills
Pptx
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…
192k3.8MScore 91 - 4#4
GitHub
Awesome Copilot
GitHub
Acquire Codebase Knowledge
Use this skill when the user explicitly asks to map, document, or onboard into an existing codebase. Trigger for prompts like "map this codebase", "document this architecture", "onboard me…
41k2.4MScore 87 - 5#5
JimLiu
Baoyu Format Markdown
Formats plain text or markdown files with frontmatter, titles, summaries, headings, bold, lists, and code blocks. Use when user asks to "format markdown", "beautify article", "add…
27k614kScore 82 - 6#6
Baoyu Post To Wechat
Posts content to WeChat Official Account (微信公众号) via API or Chrome CDP. Supports article posting (文章) with HTML, markdown, or plain text input, and image-text posting (贴图, formerly 图文) with…
27k614kScore 82 - 7#7
Baoyu Url To Markdown
Fetch any URL and convert to markdown using baoyu-fetch CLI (Chrome CDP with site-specific adapters). Built-in adapters for X/Twitter, YouTube transcripts, Hacker News threads, and generic…
27k614kScore 82 - 8#8
Garry Tan
Gstack
- 9#9
Anthropic
Claude Plugins Official
Plugin Settings
This skill should be used when the user asks about "plugin settings", "store plugin configuration", "user-configurable plugin", ".local.md files", "plugin state files", "read YAML…
47k184kScore 82 - 10#10
davila7
Agents Llamaindex
Data framework for building LLM applications with RAG. Specializes in document ingestion (300+ connectors), indexing, and querying. Features vector indices, query engines, agents, and…
33k285kScore 80
Garry Tan What makes a great documents skill.
Bundled scripts that validate the output file, not only generate it.
Support for editing existing files, not only creating new ones.
Template handling so outputs match your brand.
All 82 documents skills.
Anthropic
Skills
Anthropicdocx
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 doc', 'word…
Anthropic
Skills
AnthropicUse 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, splitting PDFs…
Anthropic
Skills
Anthropicpptx
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…
GitHub
Awesome Copilot
GitHubacquire-codebase-knowledge
Use this skill when the user explicitly asks to map, document, or onboard into an existing codebase. Trigger for prompts like "map this codebase", "document this architecture", "onboard me…
JimLiubaoyu-format-markdown
Formats plain text or markdown files with frontmatter, titles, summaries, headings, bold, lists, and code blocks. Use when user asks to "format markdown", "beautify article", "add…
JimLiubaoyu-post-to-wechat
Posts content to WeChat Official Account (微信公众号) via API or Chrome CDP. Supports article posting (文章) with HTML, markdown, or plain text input, and image-text posting (贴图, formerly 图文) with…
JimLiubaoyu-url-to-markdown
Fetch any URL and convert to markdown using baoyu-fetch CLI (Chrome CDP with site-specific adapters). Built-in adapters for X/Twitter, YouTube transcripts, Hacker News threads, and generic…
Garry Tan
Gstack
Garry Tanmake-pdf
Turn any markdown file into a publication-quality PDF. (gstack)
Anthropic
Claude Plugins Official
Anthropicplugin-settings
This skill should be used when the user asks about "plugin settings", "store plugin configuration", "user-configurable plugin", ".local.md files", "plugin state files", "read YAML…
davila7agents-llamaindex
Data framework for building LLM applications with RAG. Specializes in document ingestion (300+ connectors), indexing, and querying. Features vector indices, query engines, agents, and…
Garry Tan
Gstack
Garry Tandocument-generate
Generate missing documentation from scratch for a feature, module, or entire project. (gstack)
Garry Tan
Gstack
Garry Tandocument-release
Release documentation audit. (gstack)
OthmanAdiplanning-with-files
Persistent file-based planning for multi-step AI-agent work. Keeps task_plan.md, findings.md, and progress.md on disk; lifecycle hooks inject selected project planning context. Automatic…
alirezarezvani
Claude Skills
alirezarezvanideepread
Use when the user asks to deeply read a book, article, PDF, or document set; extract claims and evidence; build a knowledge map; or learn through Feynman explanation and recall. Covers…
AgriciDanielseo
Comprehensive SEO analysis for any website or business type. Full site audits, single-page analysis, technical SEO (crawlability, indexability, Core Web Vitals with INP), schema markup…
AgriciDanielseo-agentic
Audit and fix agent readiness: the Lighthouse Agentic Browsing fraction, accessibility tree for agents, robots.txt and Content-Signal for AI agents, WAF treatment of agent traffic…
AgriciDanielseo-cluster
Cluster keywords by SERP overlap and design hub-and-spoke content architecture with internal links. Use for planning; `/seo cluster execute` then writes the posts with claude-blog's…
Imbad0202
Academic Research Skills
Imbad0202academic-paper
12-agent academic paper writing pipeline. 11 modes (full/plan/outline/revision/revision-coach/abstract/lit-review/format-convert/citation-check/disclosure/rebuttal-audit). 6 paper types, 5…
Steph Ango
Obsidian Skills
Steph Angoobsidian-markdown
Create and edit Obsidian Flavored Markdown with wikilinks, embeds, callouts, properties, and other Obsidian-specific syntax. Use when working with .md files in Obsidian, or when the user…
phuryncreate-prd
Create a lean, decision-ready Product Requirements Document with an 8-section template: summary, contacts, background, objective, market segments, value propositions (6-part JTBD template)…
Anthropic
Claude Plugins Official
Anthropicoffice-hours
Set up and run Claude Code office hours, including the calendar event when the champion's own calendar connector allows it. Use when a champion wants a regular time for teammates to bring…
mukul975
Anthropic Cybersecurity Skills
mukul975analyzing-macro-malware-in-office-documents
Analyzes malicious VBA macros embedded in Microsoft Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) to identify download cradles, payload execution, persistence mechanisms, and anti-analysis…
Composiocanvas-design
Create beautiful visual art in .png and .pdf documents using design philosophy. You should use this skill when the user asks to create a poster, piece of art, design, or other static piece…
KKKKhazix
Khazix Skills
KKKKhazixhv-analysis
横纵分析法（Horizontal-Vertical Analysis）深度研究Skill。由数字生命卡兹克提出，融合了索绪尔的历时-共时分析、社会科学的纵向-横截面研究设计、商学院案例研究法与竞争战略分析的核心思想。 当用户想要系统性研究一个产品、公司、概念、技术或人物时使用。核心是双轴分析：纵轴追踪从诞生到当下的完整生命历程（以叙事故事…
tw93read
Fetches URLs and PDFs, then summarizes or returns clean Markdown; can also search the web through DeepSeek when built-in search is thin. Use when asked to read, fetch, quote, cite, convert…
wanshuiyin
Auto Claude Code Research In Sleep
wanshuiyincitation-crosscheck
Double-blind bibliographic cross-check: one agent extracts each cited entry verbatim from the local .bib, a second independently re-fetches the same paper's record from the web while blind…
Steph Ango
Obsidian Skills
Steph Angoknap
Render Markdown from templates and structured data using Knap CLI. Use when the user asks to apply a Knap template, turn JSON or CSV data into notes, batch-generate Markdown files, or…
OpenAI
Skills
OpenAIUse when tasks involve reading, creating, or reviewing PDF files where rendering and layout matter; prefer visual checks by rendering pages (Poppler) and use Python tools such as…
mukul975
Anthropic Cybersecurity Skills
mukul975analyzing-malicious-pdf-with-peepdf
Perform static analysis of malicious PDF documents using peepdf, pdfid, and pdf-parser to extract embedded JavaScript, shellcode, and suspicious objects. Use when triaging a suspicious PDF…
wanshuiyin
Auto Claude Code Research In Sleep
wanshuiyinarxiv
Search, download, and summarize academic papers from arXiv. Use when user says "search arxiv", "download paper", "fetch arxiv", "arxiv search", "get paper pdf", or wants to find and save…
virgiliojr94book-to-skill
Converts books and documents (PDF, EPUB, DOCX, HTML, Markdown, plain text, RTF, MOBI/AZW with Calibre) into structured agent skills, extracting frameworks, mental models, principles…
wanshuiyin
Auto Claude Code Research In Sleep
wanshuiyinformula-derivation
Structures and derives research formulas when the user wants to 推导公式, build a theory line, organize assumptions, turn scattered equations into a coherent derivation, or rewrite theory notes…
Steph Ango
Obsidian Skills
Steph Angodefuddle
Extract clean Markdown from HTML pages with Defuddle CLI.
zubair-trabzadageo-proposal
Auto-generate a professional, client-ready GEO service proposal from audit data. Creates a full proposal in markdown and PDF including executive summary, findings, recommended service…
zubair-trabzadageo-report-pdf
Generate a professional PDF report from a GEO audit using pandoc + Chrome headless. Converts GEO-AUDIT-REPORT.md into a styled, client-ready PDF with a cover page, color-coded score tables…
lawve-ai
Awesome Legal Skills
lawve-aiambiguity-report
Turn an interpretive-ambiguity audit of a legal text — contract, statute, regulation, or judicial opinion — into a polished deliverable. Produces a multi-page website (default), a…
Documents skills, explained.
Also searched as: pdf skill, docx skill, xlsx skill, pptx skill, anthropic document skills.
What are the best Claude skills for PDF, Word and Excel documents?
Right now the top-ranked documents skills on Alyn are Docx (Anthropic), PDF (Anthropic), Pptx (Anthropic). Rankings combine GitHub stars, installs, freshness and depth, and update live.
Can I use Anthropic's document skills in Claude Code?
Yes. Add the anthropics/skills marketplace with /plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills and install document-skills.
Do these skills work offline?
They run locally inside your agent's environment; most need Python or Node libraries that the skill explains.
How do I install a documents skill?
Run npx skills add owner/repo in your project, or copy the folder with SKILL.md into ~/.claude/skills. Every skill on this page has a ready-to-copy command.
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