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Anthropic Official Skills

Updated Jul 5, 2026

The official skills collection maintained by Anthropic. Includes document-processing skills for PDF, DOCX, PPTX, and XLSX files (source-available, used in production by Claude.ai), plus example skills across creative, technical, and enterprise domains. Installable as Claude Code plugins or usable directly via the Claude.ai web interface and Claude API.

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What it does

/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills
Register the Anthropic skills marketplace in Claude Code.
/plugin install document-skills@anthropic-agent-skills
Install the document-processing skill set (PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX) used in production by Claude.ai.
/plugin install example-skills@anthropic-agent-skills
Install the open-source example skills covering creative, technical, and enterprise domains.
PDF skill
Extract structured content from PDF files — sections, headings, tables, and body text.
DOCX skill
Read and create Word documents with formatting, styles, and structured content.
XLSX skill
Read and write Excel spreadsheets, work with formulas, and process tabular data.

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OVERVIEW.mdprimary · markdown · 2.0 KB

## What it does

The official skills collection maintained by Anthropic. Skills are folders containing a SKILL.md with YAML frontmatter and instructions that Claude loads dynamically for specialized tasks. This repository serves two purposes: reference implementations showing proven skill patterns, and the actual document-processing skills that power Claude.ai's built-in document capabilities.

**Document skills (source-available):** The skills/docx, skills/pdf, skills/pptx, and skills/xlsx folders contain the production implementations used by Claude.ai's document creation feature. These handle real format-specific operations — extracting structured content from PDFs, working with Word documents, building PowerPoint presentations, and reading Excel data. Source-available means you can read and learn from them but they are not Apache 2.0.

**Example skills (open source, Apache 2.0):** Cover creative applications (art, music, design), technical tasks (web app testing, MCP server generation), and enterprise workflows (communications, branding). Intended as inspiration and starting points for your own skills.

## Install

**Register the marketplace and install skill bundles via Claude Code:**

```
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills
```

Then browse and install:

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

**Claude.ai:** Document skills are available to paid plans directly — no installation needed. To use skills from this repo or upload custom skills, follow the Claude.ai skills setup guide.

**Claude API:** Use Anthropic's pre-built skills or upload custom skills via the Skills API. See the Skills API Quickstart for the creating-a-skill flow.

## When to use

- You need to extract structured content from PDFs, Word docs, PowerPoints, or Excel files without writing parsing code.
- You want a reference for how Anthropic structures production-quality SKILL.md files.
- You are building custom skills and want validated patterns to follow.