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.
AgriciDanielseo-programmatic
Programmatic SEO planning and analysis for pages generated at scale from data sources. Covers template engines, URL patterns, internal linking automation, thin content safeguards, and index…
AgriciDanielseo-sitemap
Analyze existing XML sitemaps or generate new ones with industry templates. Validates format, URLs, and structure. Use when user says "sitemap", "generate sitemap", "sitemap issues", or…
AgriciDanielseo-matomo
Matomo Reporting API extension. Self-hosted or Matomo Cloud analytics as a GA4 alternative or complement. Organic traffic, landing pages, device / country breakdowns, referrers, search…
AgriciDanielseo-ahrefs
Ahrefs API analyst (extension). Reads referring domains, backlinks, organic keywords, and content explorer data via the tested @ahrefs/mcp@0.0.11 server. Pairs with seo-backlinks for…
AgriciDanielseo-bing
Bing Webmaster Tools + IndexNow extension. Microsoft Copilot citations are fed by the Bing index; this skill makes Bing visibility, link data, and IndexNow URL submission first-class.
AgriciDanielseo-seranking
SE Ranking AI visibility analyst (extension). Tracks AI Share-of-Voice across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, AI Overviews, and AI Mode in a single query.
AgriciDanielseo-unlighthouse
Multi-page Lighthouse audit via the MIT-licensed Unlighthouse CLI. Free-tier alternative to running PageSpeed against every URL on a site, no API quota burn, runs locally.
wanshuiyin
Auto Claude Code Research In Sleep
wanshuiyinjurisdiction-format
Compile patent application into jurisdiction-specific filing format. Use when user says "格式转换", "jurisdiction format", "国家格式", "compile patent", or wants formatted patent documents for…
wanshuiyin
Auto Claude Code Research In Sleep
wanshuiyinkeenable-search
Keyless web search and page fetch via Keenable. Use when user says "keenable search", "web search without an API key", "fetch this page as markdown", or needs broad web results beyond…
AgriciDanielseo-profound
Profound LLM citation tracker (extension). Time-series brand citation rates across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and other LLMs. Pairs with seo-seranking for triangulated AI visibility coverage.
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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