Create, edit, and analyze Word documents with support for tracked changes, comments, formatting preservation, and text extraction.
Productivity Skills
Document creation, planning workflows, project management integrations, and collaboration tools to boost your productivity with Claude Code.
What are Productivity Skills?
Productivity skills are specialized Claude Code skills that help you create documents, manage projects, plan workflows, and collaborate more effectively. They include official Anthropic skills for creating Word documents, PDFs, PowerPoint presentations, and Excel spreadsheets, as well as community skills for integrating with project management tools like Linear and Notion.
Document Skills Comparison
| Skill | Format | Create | Edit | Extract | Author |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOCX | Word (.docx) | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Anthropic |
| PDF (.pdf) | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Anthropic | |
| PPTX | PowerPoint (.pptx) | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Anthropic |
| XLSX | Excel (.xlsx) | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Anthropic |
| EPUB | eBook (.epub) | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | smerchek |
Planning Skills Comparison
| Skill | Best For | Key Features | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| Superpowers | Full workflow | Brainstorming, plan writing, execution | obra |
| Skill Creator | Building skills | Interactive Q&A, templates | Anthropic |
| Linear | Issue tracking | Create/manage issues, projects | wrsmith108 |
All Productivity Skills
Comprehensive PDF manipulation toolkit for extracting text and tables, creating new PDFs, merging/splitting documents, and handling forms.
Create, edit, and analyze PowerPoint presentations with support for layouts, templates, charts, and automated slide generation.
Create, edit, and analyze Excel spreadsheets with support for formulas, formatting, data analysis, and visualization.
Collaborative document editing and co-authoring workflows for team document creation.
Interactive skill creation tool that guides you through building new skills with Q&A. Create your own skills easily.
Write internal communications like status reports, newsletters, FAQs, and announcements with consistent formatting.
Core skills library with 20+ battle-tested skills including brainstorming, plan writing, plan execution, and collaboration patterns.
Generate and explore ideas systematically with structured brainstorming workflows. Part of Superpowers.
Create strategic documentation and project plans with structured templates and best practices.
Implement and run strategic plans with step-by-step execution guidance and progress tracking.
Manage Linear issues, projects, and teams directly from Claude Code with full API integration.
AI-powered PowerPoint generation with document analysis and styled images for professional presentations.
Convert markdown documents and chat summaries into professional EPUB ebook files.
Gives each Claude Code terminal window a dynamic title describing the work being done.
Generate and manage AGENTS.md files for AI agent configuration in your projects.
Frequently Asked Questions
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills for official document skills, or /plugin marketplace add [author]/[repo] for community skills. You can also clone skills to ~/.claude/skills/ directory.
/plugin install document-skills@anthropic-agent-skills) for document creation. For planning and workflow management, try obra's Superpowers collection which includes brainstorming, plan writing, and execution skills.