Skills and servers for the paperwork: PDFs, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, markdown, and the note systems that hold them.
Anthropic skill that structures a collaborative drafting workflow for co-writing documents with Claude.
Turns 'write this for me' into an actual editing loop. Better documents, fewer full rewrites.
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills && /plugin install example-skills@anthropic-agent-skillsAnthropic's official skill for creating and editing Word documents with proper formatting, styles, and tracked changes.
The canonical Word skill, from the people who ship it inside Claude itself. Start here.
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills && /plugin install document-skills@anthropic-agent-skillsCreates and manipulates Excel workbooks — sheets, formulas, charts, pivots — without Excel installed.
Spreadsheet automation on a machine that has never seen Microsoft Office. Server-side Excel work, solved.
claude mcp add excel -- uvx excel-mcp-server stdioConverts almost anything — PDFs, images, audio, web pages, Office files — into Markdown.
One hammer for every file-shaped nail. Audio transcription in the same tool is the sleeper feature.
git clone https://github.com/zcaceres/markdownify-mcp && bun installMicrosoft's MarkItDown as an MCP server: converts Office files, PDFs, images, and more to Markdown.
Microsoft's own answer to 'make this file model-readable'. The converter everything else wraps.
pip install markitdown-mcp && claude mcp add markitdown -- markitdown-mcpLets Claude read, search, and write your Obsidian vault via the Local REST API community plugin.
Your second brain finally gets a first-class reader. The standard Obsidian bridge.
claude mcp add obsidian -- uvx mcp-obsidianDocument format conversion via pandoc: markdown, HTML, DOCX, PDF, EPUB, and more.
Pandoc has converted documents correctly since before LLMs existed. Giving Claude the keys is obvious.
claude mcp add pandoc -- uvx mcp-pandocNotion's official MCP server for reading, searching, and writing Notion pages and databases.
First-party, maintained, and markdown-optimized for token efficiency. Skip the community forks.
claude mcp add notion -- npx -y @notionhq/notion-mcp-serverPowerPoint creation and editing through python-pptx: 32 tools across templates, charts, images, and layouts.
More granular slide control than the official skill when you need to edit deck internals, not generate them.
npx -y @smithery/cli install @GongRzhe/Office-PowerPoint-MCP-Server --client claudeCreates, reads, and edits Word documents via python-docx. Archived March 2026 but still widely installed.
Archived, but the install base speaks for itself. Fine until the official docx skill covers your edge case.
npx -y @smithery/cli install @GongRzhe/Office-Word-MCP-Server --client claudeAnthropic's official skill for PDF manipulation: creation, form filling, merging, and extraction.
PDFs are where automation goes to die. This skill is the exception.
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills && /plugin install document-skills@anthropic-agent-skillsRust-native, local-first PDF reading for agents: structured text, tables, OCR, and page-level citations.
Page-level citations mean you can check Claude's homework. Rare rigor in the PDF space.
claude mcp add pdf-reader -- npx -y @sylphx/citraAnthropic's official skill for creating and editing PowerPoint presentations with layouts and themes.
Decks that don't look like a robot made them. The official skill clears that bar surprisingly often.
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills && /plugin install document-skills@anthropic-agent-skillsAnthropic's official skill for building and editing Excel spreadsheets, including formulas and formatting.
Real formulas, not numbers pasted where formulas should be. That alone justifies the install.
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills && /plugin install document-skills@anthropic-agent-skills