Anthropic’s Word, PDF, PowerPoint and Excel skills are now Apache 2.0

Anthropic’s skills repository has moved its Word, PDF, PowerPoint and Excel skills from a proprietary license to Apache 2.0. These four power Claude’s own document features, and now you can copy them, change them and ship them in your own agent.

Until now, each of the four folders carried an all-rights-reserved license tied to Anthropic’s terms. It banned keeping copies outside Anthropic’s services, derivative works, redistribution and reverse engineering.

Each folder now holds the full Apache 2.0 text. You may reproduce, modify and distribute the skills, and each contributor grants a patent license. In return, you ship a copy of the license and mark the files you changed.

The license covers everything in the four folders. That includes the Python scripts that fill PDF forms, accept tracked changes in Word files and add PowerPoint slides, plus the Office XML schemas they check files against.

In Claude Code, these four install together as the document-skills plugin. The rest of the repository already used Apache 2.0, so the Office skills now match the rest.

The README still calls these skills demonstrations, and Claude’s own apps may behave differently, so test them before you rely on them. If I were building a Word or PDF skill for my own agent, I would fork these four.