Overview
office-transform is an open-source docs skill for Claude Code and compatible agents, published by CherryHQ. Its author describes it as: “Derive new Office files from structural selections without touching the original. Use when the user points at part of a spreadsheet, Word document, PDF, or PowerPoint deck (a worksheet range, paragraph, page, slide, s…”. The project has 52k stars on GitHub and is available under the AGPL-3.0-only license. Add it to your setup with `git clone https://github.com/CherryHQ/cherry-studio ~/.claude/skills/office-transform`.
What office-transform does
Turn a structural selection of an Office/PDF document into a new derived file.
Best for
What’s inside
The SKILL.md for office-transform is organised into these sections:
- When to use which tool
- Input: selection references
- Operations
- Extract — pull the anchored region into a new file
- Patch-copy — derive an edited copy, standard library only
- Generate — write ad-hoc library code for new documents
- Edit docx — edit runs, never Paragraph.text
- Edit pptx — use python-pptx, saving to a new path
- Output conventions
- Verify before reporting success
- Limits
Installation
Add office-transform to your agent with:
git clone https://github.com/CherryHQ/cherry-studio ~/.claude/skills/office-transformReview a skill’s source before installing it — skills can instruct your agent to run commands. This command comes from the skill’s public repository, which is the source of truth for setup steps. New to skills? Read how to install Claude Code skills.
Supported agents
- Claude Code — declared in the repository topics
- Codex — declared in the repository topics
License
office-transform is published under the AGPL-3.0-only license.
Strengths
- Clear AGPL-3.0-only license — safe to read and adapt within its terms
- Ships in CherryHQ/cherry-studio, an established project with 52,047 GitHub stars
- Works with Claude Code, Codex
- Actively maintained — repository updated in the last 30 days
Author
Topics
Frequently asked questions
- What does office-transform do?
- Derive new Office files from structural selections without touching the original. Use when the user points at part of a spreadsheet, Word document, PDF, or PowerPoint deck (a worksheet range, paragraph, page, slide, shape, or a pasted selection-ref block) and wants it extracted, converted, or edited — the result is always a NEW file; the source file is never modified. Covers xlsx range extraction to csv/markdown/xlsx, docx paragraph extraction and text replacement, pdf page extraction, pptx slide/shape/table-cell extraction and editing, and targeted xlsx cell edits.
- How do I install office-transform?
- Run git clone https://github.com/CherryHQ/cherry-studio ~/.claude/skills/office-transform in your agent, then reload your skills. Review the source at https://github.com/CherryHQ/cherry-studio before installing.
- Is office-transform free to use?
- Yes. office-transform is free and open source under the AGPL-3.0-only license, so you can read, run, and adapt it within that license's terms.
- Which agents does office-transform work with?
- office-transform lists Claude Code and Codex — named in its SKILL.md, its plugin marketplace or its repository topics. Skills use the portable SKILL.md format, so other agents that read that format may load it too.
- Where does office-transform come from?
- office-transform ships inside CherryHQ/cherry-studio, a repository that contains 37 catalogued skills in total. The repository's 52,047 GitHub stars apply to that whole collection, not to this skill on its own.
