Announce: "I'm using docx-render to convert this document to PDF via doc_render."

DOCX → PDF/PNG rendering

Office docs → PDF/PNG go through the shared converter scripts/doc_render.py (convert()), which picks the best engine and applies the right fixes. Do not hand-roll soffice/libreoffice or lean on the generic docx skill's own export — those skip the Word-fidelity path and the x2t kerning/table fixes.

Default to --renderer word (Iron Law)

For any PDF a human will read — a deliverable, an email attachment, a reading-list file, anything you hand to the user — pass --renderer word. The bare/auto command is NOT the safe default: auto deliberately EXCLUDES Word (the check is if avail["word"] and allow_word, and allow_word defaults False) and silently uses x2t/LibreOffice, which reflow the layout (real case: a 5-page doc shipped as 7). Word works even from a background/headless job via cmux dispatch (below), so there is no reason to skip it for a deliverable.