DOCX creation, editing, and analysis

Overview

A user may ask you to create, edit, or analyze the contents of a .docx file. A .docx file is essentially a ZIP archive containing XML files and other resources that you can read or edit. You have different tools and workflows available for different tasks.

Prerequisites

Python dependencies are resolved automatically by uv run — scripts declare them in PEP 723 headers. The workflows below also rely on:

• pandoc (brew install pandoc) — text extraction to markdown
• LibreOffice (brew install --cask libreoffice) and poppler (brew install poppler) — converting documents to images (soffice, pdftoppm)
• Node.js packages — creating new documents uses the docx npm package; if node_modules/ is missing, run npm install in this skill directory once

Workflow Decision Tree

Reading/Analyzing Content

Use "Text extraction" or "Raw XML access" sections below