How to install Anthropic's Office document skills in Claude Code

The four document skills Anthropic uses for file creation in the Claude apps (docx, pdf, pptx and xlsx) moved to the Apache 2.0 license on November 6, the same license as most other skills in the repo, so you can modify them or ship them in your own product. In Claude Code, one plugin installs all four.

1. Add the repository as a marketplace.

/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills

1. Install the document skills bundle.

/plugin install document-skills@anthropic-agent-skills

The same marketplace also has example-skills, a bundle of 12 skills including frontend-design, mcp-builder, skill-creator and webapp-testing.

/plugin install example-skills@anthropic-agent-skills

1. Once installed, just mention the skill by name.

Use the PDF skill to extract the form fields from path/to/form.pdf

The README says these skills are for demonstration and education and may behave differently from what you get in the Claude apps, so test them yourself before relying on them for critical work.