Best Claude Skills for Documents (2026)
Most "best skills" lists are copied README summaries. This one isn't: we installed all 156 documents skills in our catalog, ran each against a baseline and scored four criteria. 68 passed cleanly, average score 8.8/10. The one to start with: TR Dizin.
Ranked by SkillProof Score · how we score
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TR Dizin
Stdlib-only CLI for the open TR Dizin (Turkish national academic index) JSON API — search, filters, PDF-to-text
From our test: Ran the real live API end to end — search, field-scoped advanced search, author lookup, the documented ':' -in-query error (exact message and exit code 2), and a full PDF-to-markdown extraction of a…
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Patent Writing Chinese
Generates CNIPA-style Chinese patent .docx files with real OMML equations and B&W block diagrams.
From our test: Actually ran the bundled example end-to-end (pip install python-docx/lxml/matplotlib, executed examples/example_patent.py) and diffed the resulting docx XML against a plain python-docx baseline…
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DOCX — Word Documents
Create and edit real Word documents — headings, tables, tracked changes.
From our test: Produced a 14-page report with a table of contents, numbered headings, styled tables and a letterhead. Tracked-changes editing on an existing contract worked without corrupting the file.
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Shipping Artifacts
Defines the doc set that makes an AI-built app reviewable before it ships.
From our test: For a Next.js + Supabase + Stripe app it produced a structured doc set with per-step deny cases and a permissions matrix instead of a flat README, and its own docs admit test docs need a separate…
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Generate Requirement Drafts
Drafts EARS-format Simulink requirements as .slreqx or validated YAML with traceability.
From our test: Ran the mini-task live: generated a 3-requirement CruiseControl_requirements.yaml following the skill's EARS + draft-marking + provenance rules and it parsed clean with a real `yaml.safe_load` check…
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PDF Proof
Finds a value in a PDF, verifies it's the right occurrence, and outputs a highlighted screenshot proof page.
From our test: Built a test invoice PDF with the same dollar amount appearing twice — once as the real total, once inside an unrelated instruction sentence — and the bundled script correctly found both, let me pick…
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PRISMA Systematic Literature Review
Walks a user through a PRISMA 2020 systematic review and outputs a journal-format .docx
From our test: Ran a PRISMA flow-diagram mini-task end to end: the skill correctly picked Template A, flagged a missing 'reports not retrieved' count instead of guessing at it, and produced both a table version and…
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Quality Checking
Cross-checks generated API docs against a route manifest and source middleware
From our test: Fed it a doc file with a missing endpoint, two missing auth markers, and a malformed JSON example — it caught all four by cross-referencing the route manifest, where a generic 'review these docs'…
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Specifying MBD Algorithms
Structured system/architecture/implementation/test spec templates for Simulink algorithms
From our test: Ran a real baseline-vs-skill spec comparison for a moving-average accelerometer filter: the skill version added quantitative acceptance criteria, a units/sign-convention interface table, and explicit…
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DOCX Template Translator
Converts LaTeX/PDF/Markdown into a .docx that actually follows an institutional Word template — TOC, numbering, citations included.
From our test: Its 'Common Pitfalls' section reads like a postmortem, not marketing copy — it names the exact bug ('references render as [47]-[79] because the counter shares numId with headings') and the exact…
How this ranking works
Each skill gets a fresh install in Claude Code, three trigger phrasings, and the same task run with and without it. Scores: installation (5), trigger reliability (5), output vs baseline (10), documentation honesty (5) — normalized to a 10-point SkillProof Score. Full rubric on the methodology page. Queue-verdict skills sit at the bottom until testing completes.
New here? Start with how to install Claude skills — or grab the whole setup in one command with a curated pack ($10).
On a different AI tool? These tested instructions adapt: see our conversion guides for Cursor rules, Copilot instructions, Windsurf and Custom GPTs.