docx-pptx-extraction

docx-pptx-extraction is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cxcscmu/SkillLearnBench. It costs 20 tokens per session (476 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for reading text from DOCX and PPTX files, the document and presentation formats used by Microsoft Word and PowerPoint. It extracts text for later analysis.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to extract text from Word documents and PowerPoint presentations, including selected paragraphs or slides, before classifying or analysing them.
Why use it?
It avoids manually opening and copying content from Office files when only their text is needed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cxcscmu/skilllearnbench/docx-pptx-extraction
Any agent
npx skills add cxcscmu/SkillLearnBench --skill docx-pptx-extraction
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cxcscmu/SkillLearnBench

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 476 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00020 $0.00476
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00238
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00095
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00048

Measured 4d ago against content hash 798f1120d93e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

docx-pptx-extraction scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/b1-one-shot-claude-haiku-4-5/organize-messy-files/docx-pptx-extraction/SKILL.md · 79 lines

What it actually says

DOCX and PPTX Text Extraction

Overview

Extract text content from Microsoft Office files (.docx, .pptx) for subject classification.

Installation

pip install python-docx python-pptx

DOCX Extraction

from docx import Document

def extract_docx_text(docx_path, max_chars=5000):
    """Extract text from DOCX files"""
    try:
        doc = Document(docx_path)
        text = ""
        for para in doc.paragraphs:
            text += para.text + "\n"
            if len(text) > max_chars:
                break
        return text[:max_chars]
    except Exception as e:
        return f"Error reading DOCX: {str(e)}"

PPTX Extraction

from pptx import Presentation

def extract_pptx_text(pptx_path, max_chars=5000):
    """Extract text from PPTX files"""
    try:
        prs = Presentation(pptx_path)
        text = ""
        for slide_num, slide in enumerate(prs.slides):
            if slide_num >= 5:  # First 5 slides
                break
            for shape in slide.shapes:
                if hasattr(shape, "text"):
                    text += shape.text + "\n"
                    if len(text) > max_chars:
                        return text[:max_chars]
        return text[:max_chars]
    except Exception as e:
        return f"Error reading PPTX: {str(e)}"

Combined Handler

def extract_text_by_type(file_path):
    """Route to appropriate extraction method based on file extension"""
    ext = file_path.lower().split('.')[-1]

    if ext == 'pdf':
        return extract_pdf_text(file_path)
    elif ext == 'docx':
        return extract_docx_text(file_path)
    elif ext == 'pptx':
        return extract_pptx_text(file_path)
    else:
        return ""

Best Practices

  • Extract from first 3-5 pages/slides only
  • Handle missing text shapes gracefully
  • Use consistent character limits across all file types
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 79 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 798f1120d93e

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docx-pptx-extraction is a skill published in the GitHub repository cxcscmu/SkillLearnBench (82 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 476 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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