Documents skills for Claude
Skills that read and write files like PDF, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
At a glance
This list has 81 skills from 5 public GitHub repos. 55 of them have a license that lets us quote the description. The newest repo update is 2026-10-13. The oldest is 2026-07-24. Most skills come from alirezarezvani (46), ComposioHQ (22), anthropics (7).
Claude reads skills from ~/.claude/skills/. See the Claude skills page and the install guide.
Documents skills
Sorted with licensed, described skills first, then by newest repo update.
documentation-and-adrs
Records decisions and documentation. Use when you need to document an architecture decision (ADR) or the reasoning behind a design choice, when changing publ...
source-driven-development
Grounds every implementation decision in official documentation. Use when you want to verify an approach against the official docs before implementing it, or...
spec-driven-development
Creates specs before coding. Use when starting a new project, feature, or significant change and no specification exists yet. Use when drafting a PRD or requ...
academy-guide
Stop and check this skill before finishing any reply to a question about how to use Claude or a Claude product - it recommends matching courses, tutorials,...
canvas-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...
code-review
Review the changes since a fixed point (commit, branch, tag, or merge-base) along two axes: Standards (does the code follow this repo's documented coding sta...
handoff
Compact the current conversation into a handoff document for another agent to pick up.
writing-for-agents
Writing documents for agents. Use when creating or editing skills, or modifying AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md.
arquiteto-de-empresa
Company Architect: builds a business from scratch as an OKF (Open Knowledge Format) bundle - a tree of version-controllable .md files with frontmatter type...
arquiteto-de-empresa
Company Architect: builds a business from scratch as an OKF (Open Knowledge Format) bundle - a tree of version-controllable .md files with frontmatter type...
book-to-skill
Converts books, documentation folders, and source collections (PDF, EPUB, DOCX, HTML, Markdown, RST, AsciiDoc, RTF, MOBI/AZW) into structured agent skills -...
brand-guidelines
When the user wants to apply, document, or enforce brand guidelines for any product or company. Also use when the user mentions 'brand guidelines,' 'brand co...
business-operations-skills
Use when running, diagnosing, or designing internal business operations - process documentation, vendor SLAs, capacity planning, internal comms, SOP/runboo...
code-to-prd
Reverse-engineer any codebase into a complete Product Requirements Document (PRD). Analyzes routes, components, state management, API integrations, and user ...
codebase-onboarding
Analyze a codebase and generate onboarding documentation for engineers, tech leads, and contractors. Fast fact-gathering and repeatable onboarding outputs. U...
confluence-expert
Atlassian Confluence expert for creating and managing spaces, knowledge bases, and documentation. Configures space permissions and hierarchies, creates page ...
contract-and-proposal-writer
Generate professional, jurisdiction-aware business documents: freelance contracts, project proposals, SOWs, NDAs, and MSAs. Structured Markdown output with d...
deepread
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 exp...
dossier
Decision-grade entity research skill - produces a hypothesis-tested dossier on a specific company, person, nonprofit, or government org, not a generic prof...
eu-ai-act-specialist
EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689) operational compliance for compliance teams. Three Article-level decisions: (1) What's the risk tier of this AI system ...
eu-ai-act-specialist
EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689) operational compliance for compliance teams. Three Article-level decisions: (1) What's the risk tier of this AI system ...
financial-analyst
Performs financial ratio analysis, DCF valuation, budget variance analysis, and rolling forecast construction for strategic decision-making. Use when analyzi...
gdpr-dsgvo-expert
GDPR and German DSGVO compliance automation. Scans codebases for privacy risks, generates DPIA documentation, tracks data subject rights requests with Art. 1...
grants
NIH grant research skill for clinical researchers. Grill-me intake (research idea + career stage + preliminary data + environment + submission posture + know...
grill-with-docs
Docs-anchored grilling session - challenges a plan against the project's existing language (CONTEXT.md) and recorded decisions (docs/adr/), and updates tho...
handoff
Compact the current conversation into a handoff document for another agent to pick up. Save to a user-configured location (OS temp, home folder, or per-proje...
handoff
Compact the current conversation into a handoff document for another agent to pick up. References existing artifacts (PRDs, plans, ADRs, issues, commits, dif...
isms-audit-expert
Information Security Management System (ISMS) audit expert for ISO 27001 compliance verification, security control assessment, and certification support. Use...
litreview
Academic literature orientation skill that searches papers via free keyless APIs (PubMed E-utilities + OpenAlex) by default - with the Consensus MCP as an ...
markdown-html-orchestrator
Use when a user wants to convert any markdown file in their Claude project into a single-file, lightly-interactive HTML - long-form documents (specs, plans...
marketing-context
Create and maintain the marketing context document that all marketing skills read before starting. Use when the user mentions 'marketing context,' 'brand voi...
marketing-strategy-pmm
Product marketing skill for positioning, GTM strategy, competitive intelligence, and product launches. Use when the user asks about product positioning, go-t...
md-document
Converts long-form markdown (specs, RFCs, reports, plans, explainers) into a single-file, lightly-interactive HTML document with sticky TOC, scrollspy, searc...
md-review
Converts a markdown PR writeup or code review (one with ```diff fenced blocks and severity-tagged > [!BLOCKER]/[!MAJOR]/[!MINOR]/[!NIT] callouts) into a sing...
md-slides
Converts a markdown deck (slides separated by `---` HR boundaries or by `# ` H1 headings, with optional `<!-- notes: ... -->` presenter notes blocks) into a ...
mdr-745-specialist
EU MDR 2017/745 compliance specialist for medical device classification, technical documentation, clinical evidence, and post-market surveillance. Covers Ann...
meeting-analyzer
Analyzes meeting transcripts and recordings to surface behavioral patterns, communication anti-patterns, and actionable coaching feedback. Use this skill whe...
named-persona-adversarial-review
Code review through the lens of real engineers' documented philosophies (Torvalds, Thompson, Carmack, Kent Beck, Jobs, Cagan). Complements abstract-role adve...
patent
Patent prior-art and landscape intelligence skill - not generic patent help. Commits to one of five sub-use-cases via forcing intake (novelty search / free...
process-mapper
Use when a BizOps lead, COO, or process-improvement owner needs to document an end-to-end business process (procurement, employee onboarding, incident handof...
procurement-optimizer
Use when running an annual SaaS audit, doing category-level spend review, or rationalizing the supplier base - when the user needs a spend audit, spend cat...
product-manager-toolkit
Comprehensive toolkit for product managers including RICE prioritization, customer interview analysis, PRD templates, discovery frameworks, and go-to-market ...
product-strategist
Strategic product leadership toolkit for Head of Product covering OKR cascade generation, quarterly planning, competitive landscape analysis, product vision ...
quality-documentation-manager
Document control system management for medical device QMS. Covers document numbering, version control, change management, and 21 CFR Part 11 compliance. Use ...
quality-manager-qms-iso13485
ISO 13485 Quality Management System implementation and maintenance for medical device organizations. Provides QMS design, documentation control, internal aud...
ra-qm-skills
Router/index for the 15 regulatory & quality-management skills bundled in this plugin (ISO 13485 QMS, EU MDR 2017/745, FDA submissions under QMSR, ISO 14971 ...
regulatory-affairs-head
Senior Regulatory Affairs Manager for HealthTech and MedTech companies. Prepares FDA 510(k), De Novo, and PMA submission packages; analyzes regulatory pathwa...
research
Default entry point for any research request - a hybrid router that classifies the question deterministically and either delegates to a specialist research...
research-summarizer
Structured research summarization agent skill for non-dev users. Handles academic papers, web articles, reports, and documentation. Extracts key findings, ge...
runbook-generator
Generate operational runbooks from a service name - deployment, incident response, maintenance, and rollback workflows. Templated structure customizable pe...
syllabus
Generates a curated supplementary reading list from any course syllabus using Consensus academic search. Grill-me intake (syllabus input format + course audi...
tc-tracker
Use when the user asks to track technical changes, create change records, manage TC lifecycles, or hand off work between AI sessions. Covers init/create/upda...
ui-design-system
UI design system toolkit for Senior UI Designer including design token generation, component documentation, responsive design calculations, and developer han...
universal-scraping-architect
Use for web scraping, crawling, document extraction, API parsing, or building validation-heavy data pipelines using Firecrawl or local Python scripts.
canvas-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...
api2pdf-automation
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craftmypdf-automation
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Excel Automation
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googledocs-automation
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image-enhancer
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Mistral AI Automation
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PandaDoc Automation
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pdf-api-io-automation
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pdf-co-automation
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pdf4me-automation
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pdfless-automation
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pdfmonkey-automation
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Prismic Automation
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raffle-winner-picker
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share_point-automation
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SharePoint Automation
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text-to-pdf-automation
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Questions
What are documents skills?
Skills that read and write files like PDF, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Each one is a folder with a SKILL.md file that Claude reads when a task matches.
How do I install a documents skill?
Copy the skill folder into ~/.claude/skills/ and start a new Claude session. Each skill page shows the exact command.
Can I trust these skills?
We run a basic automated check for risky patterns. It is not a full audit. Read a skill before you install it.