Microsoft Word — Documentation skill for Claude Code

Microsoft Word agent skill

**TL;DR:** `microsoft-word` is a free, MIT-licensed agent skill that teaches AI agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI and other agents that read SKILL.md skills) to read, create, edit, convert, update and safely share Word documents, with tested guidance for python-docx, docx.js, docxtpl, pandoc, mammoth, LibreOffice, Office.js, VBA and Microsoft Graph. Install: `npx skills add skillsaas/microsoft-word` or `npm install microsoft-word`.

`microsoft-word` is an [Agent Skills](https://agentskills.io/specification) skill that teaches AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI and others) to read, create, edit, convert, update and safely share Word documents without breaking them.

Unofficial. Microsoft and Word are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. This project is not affiliated with or endorsed by Microsoft.

Use it when

• Find and replace in a .docx "does nothing" because Word split the text across runs.
• Creating or editing .docx with python-docx, docx.js (docx on npm), docxtpl or pandoc and the result loses formatting.
• A TOC, page numbers or cross-references are stale, or you need a PDF without Word.
• Reading documents with tracked changes, comments, content controls, headers and footers or footnotes.
• Accepting changes, removing comments, hidden text and metadata before a document leaves the company.
• Handling untrusted documents: macros (.docm), remote templates, DDE and INCLUDE fields, altChunk, OLE.
• Converting .doc, .rtf, .dotx, .odt and comparing two versions.
• Automating Word with Office.js, VBA, COM or Microsoft Graph.

Install

npx skills add skillsaas/microsoft-word     # skills CLI, reads SKILL.md at the repo root
npm install microsoft-word                  # files land in node_modules/microsoft-word/
# Planned, not yet published: npx @skillsaas/cli add microsoft-word --claude

Works today: copy `SKILL.md`, `references/` and `scripts/` into your agent's skills folder, for ex